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Country
  
Serbia

Local time
  
Sunday 10:47 PM

Municipality
  
Titel

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
4,374 (2011)

Province
  
Vojvodina

Šajkaš

Weather
  
14°C, Wind E at 14 km/h, 40% Humidity

Šajkaš (Serbian Cyrillic: Шајкаш) is a village located in the Titel municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,550 people (2002 census).

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Name

In Serbian the village is known as Šajkaš (Шајкаш), in Croatian as Šajkaš, in Hungarian as Sajkásszentiván, and in German as Schatzdorf or Schajkasch-Sentiwan.

History

The Šajkaška district was the scene of a notorious massacre during the occupation of Bačka by the Hungarian army in January 1942. This cost almost 900 lives. The German minority left the village in 1944.

Historical population

  • 1961: 2,825
  • 1971: 2,987
  • 1981: 3,541
  • 1991: 3,828
  • 2002: 4,848
  • 2011: 4,374
  • References

    Šajkaš Wikipedia