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Telečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.

Telečka Телечка (Serbian) Bácsgyulafalva  (Hungarian)
Village (Selo)
The Saint Mary Catholic Church.
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Coordinates: 45°48′N 19°23′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka
District	West Bačka
Municipality	Sombor
Population  (2002)
• Total	2,084
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%)
• Serbs = 429 (20.59%)
• Romani = 37 (1.78%)
• Yugoslavs = 23 (1.10%)
• Croats = 13 (0.62%)
• others.

Historical population

• 1961: 2,996
• 1971: 2,665
• 1981: 2,429
• 1991: 2,138

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Telečka.

• www.soinfo.org
• http://bacsgyulafalva.5mp.eu

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