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Ečka Ечка
Village ( Selo)
Serbian Orthodox Church (1711)
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Coordinates: 45°19′04″N 20°26′20″E / 45.31778°N 20.43889°E / 45.31778; 20.43889
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Elevation	71 m (233 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Ečka	4,513
Time zone	UTC+1 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+2 ( CEST)
Postal code	23203
Area code	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Ečka ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ечка, pronounced [êtʃka]; Hungarian: Écska) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

Name and history

In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Ecica or Ecica Română, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).

The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,513 people (2002 census).

• Serbs = 2,483 (55.02%)
• Romanians = 1,325 (29.36%)
• Hungarians = 196 (4.34%)
• Yugoslavs = 123 (2.73%)
• Romani = 72 (1.60%)

Historical population

• 1900: 4,892
• 1931: 5,207
• 1948: 3,934
• 1953: 4,188
• 1961: 4,323
• 1971: 4,621
• 1981: 5,293
• 1991: 5,172

Trivia

• Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.

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.

External links

• About Ečka (ADF/USAID)

Additional pictures

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  The Romanian Orthodox Church
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  The Catholic Church of St. John Baptist, built in 1864 as the third church
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  Blazon of counts Lazar in Ečka
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  Main street and the Catholic Church
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  The Kaštel castle, built in 1820, by count Lukács
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  Tower in Ečka
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  Old wooden bridge over Begej 1995, built 1889, renovated 1894 and later 2005
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  Old bridge over Begej 1995 with sheep and church in background

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