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Country
  
Serbia

Local time
  
Monday 7:10 PM

Province
  
Vojvodina

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
2,216 (2002)

Nikinci

Weather
  
12°C, Wind N at 8 km/h, 39% Humidity

Nikinci (Serbian Cyrillic: Никинци) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,216 people (2002 census).

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Map of Nikinci, Serbia

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Nikinci (Никинци), in Croatian as Nikinci, and in Hungarian as Nyékinca.

History

In 1737, about 1,600 Catholic Albanians from Kelmendi clan came to Srem. They were settled in the villages of Nikinci and Hrtkovci. Today, their descendants consider themselves Croats.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

  • Serbs = 1,534
  • Hungarians = 264
  • Croats = 210
  • Yugoslavs = 69
  • Roma = 32
  • others.
  • Historical population

  • 1961: 2,607
  • 1971: 2,644
  • 1981: 2,425
  • 1991: 2,266
  • References

    Nikinci Wikipedia