Country Serbia Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area code(s) +381(0)13 Local time Friday 6:27 AM Province Vojvodina | District South Banat Postal code 26223 Car plates PA Population 1,053 (2011) | |
 | ||
Weather 3°C, Wind NW at 8 km/h, 77% Humidity | ||
Ivanovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Иваново; Hungarian: Sándoregyháza; Bulgarian: Иваново; German: Alexanderkirchen) is a village located in the Pančevo municipality, in the southeastern South Banat District of the Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population numbering 1,053 people who are permanent residents (2011 census).
Contents
Map of Ivanovo, Serbia
Name
The place name means Ivan's location. A legend tells about a Bulgarian man called Ivan who was the first settler of this place. The Hungarian and the German name also mean location of Alexander's church. Both names refer to Sándor Bonnaz, Bishop of Csanád. He protected the building of the church before his death. The church has been built from 1889 to 1899.
Geography
Ivanovo is located nearby floodplains of the Danube at 44°44′11″N 20°42′03″E. These floodplains are regarded as natural monument of Serbia.
History
The village was founded in 1868 and it is the youngest settlement of this administrative area. It was settled by Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians), Germans and Hungarian (Székelys of Bukovina).
The settlement was a part of Habsburg's military frontier (Austrian Empire) since its founding, then it belonged to the Torontál county of Austria-Hungary. After World War I, that area was a part of provisional Torontalsko-tamiške županja (Treaty of Trianon), in 1922 of Belgrade oblast and since 1929 of the Danube Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the time after World War II its belonged to the Srez Pančevo of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The communal area of Ivanovo was a part of the municipal region of Pančevo from all these centuries to the present.
Culture
In 2001, local Bulgarian people have formed the cultural association Ivanovo 1868.