Melenci

Melenci

Melenci

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Melenci (Serbian Cyrillic: Меленци; Hungarian: Melence) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (93.40%) and its population numbering 6,737 people (2002 census).[1] The brackish water lake of Okanj is nearby.

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Abandoned windmill nearby Melenci

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Melenci or Меленци, in Hungarian as Melence, and in German as Melenze.

Historical population

  • 1961: 8,254
  • 1971: 8,008
  • 1981: 7,685
  • 1991: 7,270
  • 2002: 6,737
  • 2011: 5,956

Sports

FK Rusanda Melenci is the local football club. It was founded in 1925.

Trivia

Rusanda Spa is located on the territory of Melenci.[2]

There is an abandoned Windmill at the road to Kikinda. It is one of the last two windmills left in Banat.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
  2. [2]
    "Home". banjarusanda.rs.
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