Čestereg

Coordinates: 45°33′49″N 20°31′55″E / 45.56361°N 20.53194°E / 45.56361; 20.53194

Čestereg Честерег
Settlement
Country	Serbia
District	Central Banat
Municipality	Žitište
Coordinates	45°33′49″N 20°31′55″E / 45.56361°N 20.53194°E / 45.56361; 20.53194
Population	1,391 (2002)
Postal code	23215
Area code	+381 23
Car plates	ZR

The foundations of the new Orthodox church.

Market place in the village. The razed Catholic church stood here until 1948.

Čestereg (Serbian Cyrillic: Честерег) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality, Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,391 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Честерег or Čestereg, in Hungarian as Csősztelek, in German as Tschesterek or Neuhatzfeld, and in Croatian as Čestereg.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1332 as Cherezek. During the Ottoman invasion it was devastated. In the 19th century, the area of present-day village belonged to Count József Csekonics (a Hungarian of Croatian descent). [1] The modern village was founded in 1828. Its first inhabitants were Hungarians, but since they left from the village, Csekonics settled Germans in 1829. In 1900, the population of the village was composed of 2,001 Germans, 673 Hungarians, and 64 Romanians. After World War II, the entire German population of the village was murdered by Yugoslavian partisans in retaliation for WWII. The partisans then settled Serb settlers from Herzegovina and Montenegro in German houses.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Serbs = 1,294 (93.03%)
• Roma = 27 (1.94%)
• Croats = 15 (1.08%)
• Yugoslavs = 14 (1.01%)
• Hungarians = 11 (0.79%)
• others.

Historical population

• 1836: 1,213
• 1900: 2,767
• 1961: 2,101
• 1971: 1,766
• 1981: 1,581
• 1991: 1,465
• 2002: 1,391

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

1. Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
2. Borislav Jankulov, Pregled kolonizacije Vojvodine u XVIII i XIX veku, Novi Sad - Pančevo, 2003.
3. Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez, 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis)

External links

• Čestereg web