Sečanj

Sečanj Сечањ
Municipality and Town
The new Orthodox Church.
Sečanj Location of Sečanj within Serbia
Sečanj Location of Sečanj within Vojvodina
Coordinates:
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Government
• Mayor	Predrag Milošević
Area
• Sečanj	523 km2 (201.9 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Sečanj	2,373
• Metro	13,267
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23240
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Map of Sečanj municipality

Old houses.

Filling-station in the village

Sečanj (Serbian Cyrillic: Сечањ) is a village and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,373, while the Sečanj municipality has 13,267 inhabitants.

Name

"Sečanj" is a Slavic name for the first month in the calendar year. The Serbian Ekavian variant of this name was eventually replaced with the new word "Januar" (corresponding to the common months as known in Western European cultures), while the Croatian Ijekavian variant "Siječanj" remains in use in Croatia.

In Serbian, the village is known as Сечањ or Sečanj, in Hungarian as Szécsány or Torontálszécsány, in German as Setschan or Petersheim, in Croatian as Sečanj, and in Romanian as Seceani.

Serbian, Hungarian, and Romanian language are officially used by municipal authorities.

TORONTÁL-SZÉCSAN in the Kingdom of Hungary (Torontál County) in 1871.

Historical population of the village

• 1837: 1,489
• 1900: 2,596
• 1961: 2,829
• 1971: 2,906
• 1981: 2,718
• 1991: 2,688
• 2002: 2,647
• 2011: 2,104

Inhabited places

The Sečanj municipality includes the town of Jaša Tomić and the following villages:

• Sečanj
• Banatska Dubica
• Boka
• Busenje (Hungarian: Káptalanfalva)
• Jarkovac
• Konak
• Krajišnik
• Neuzina
• Sutjeska
• Šurjan

Ethnic groups (2011 census)

See also: Serbs in Vojvodina, Hungarians in Vojvodina, Romani people of Vojvodina, Romanians in Vojvodina, Serbian lands, and List of Hungarian communities in Vojvodina

According to the 2011 census Sečanj municipality had 13,267 inhabitants, including:

• Serbs = 9,195 (69.31%)
• Hungarians = 1,691 (12.75%)
• Romani = 714 (5.38%)
• Romanians = 566 (4.27%)
• Others and undeclared = 1,101 (8.30%)

The settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Sečanj, Banatska Dubica, Boka, Jarkovac, Jaša Tomić, Krajišnik, and Sutjeska. The settlement with Hungarian ethnic majority is Busenje. Ethnically mixed settlements with relative Serb majority are: Konak, Neuzina and Šurjan.

References

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

See also

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