Elemir

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Orthodox church in Elemir

Catholic church in Elemir

Elemir (Елемир) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,690 people (2002 census).

1 Name
2 Ethnic groups (2002 census)
3 Historical population
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Elemir or Елемир, in Romanian as Elemir, in Hungarian as Elemér, in Croatian as Elemir, and in German as Elemer.

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Serbs = 4,158 (88.66%)
Roma = 181 (3.86%)
Hungarians = 93 (1.98%)
Yugoslavs = 54 (1.15%)
Croats = 24 (0.51%)
others.

[edit] Historical population

1869: 4,359
1900: 4,749 (in Lower Elemir 1,007, in Upper Elemir 3,448)
1948: 4,656
1953: 4,757
1961: 4,886
1971: 5,001
1981: 4,998
1991: 4,724
2002: 4,690

[edit] References

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez, 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis)