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Country
  
Serbia

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:28 PM

Province
  
Vojvodina

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
2,084 (2002)

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Weather
  
17°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 31% Humidity

Telečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.

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Map of Tele%C4%8Dka, Serbia

History

Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

  • Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%)
  • Serbs = 429 (20.59%)
  • Romani = 37 (1.78%)
  • Yugoslavs = 23 (1.10%)
  • Croats = 13 (0.62%)
  • others.
  • Historical population

  • 1961: 2,996
  • 1971: 2,665
  • 1981: 2,429
  • 1991: 2,138
  • References

    Telečka Wikipedia