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Country
  
Serbia

Elevation
  
71 m (233 ft)

Area code(s)
  
+381(0)23

Local time
  
Saturday 6:36 AM

Postal code
  
23203

District
  
Central Banat

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Car plates
  
ZR

Population
  
4,513 (2002)

Province
  
Vojvodina

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Weather
  
3°C, Wind N at 24 km/h, 75% Humidity

Ečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Ечка, [êtʃka]) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

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Map of Ecka, Serbia

Name and history

In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Ecica or Ecica Română, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).

The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,513 people (2002 census).

  • Serbs = 2,483 (55.02%)
  • Romanians = 1,325 (29.36%)
  • Hungarians = 196 (4.34%)
  • Yugoslavs = 123 (2.73%)
  • Romani = 72 (1.60%)

    • Historical population

  • 1900: 4,892
  • 1931: 5,207
  • 1948: 3,934
  • 1953: 4,188
  • 1961: 4,323
  • 1971: 4,621
  • 1981: 5,293
  • 1991: 5,172

    • Trivia

  • Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.

    • References

    Ečka Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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