Sečanj

Sečanj Сечањ
Municipality and Town
The new Orthodox Church.
Sečanj Location of Sečanj within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°22′00″N 20°46′21″E / 45.36667°N 20.77250°E / 45.36667; 20.77250Coordinates: 45°22′00″N 20°46′21″E / 45.36667°N 20.77250°E / 45.36667; 20.77250
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Government
• Mayor	Predrag Milošević
Area
• Sečanj	523 km² (201.9 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Sečanj	2,373
• Metro	13,267
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23240
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Map of Sečanj municipality

Old houses.

Filling-station in the village

Sečanj (Serbian Cyrillic: Сечањ) is a village and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,373, while the Sečanj municipality has 13,267 inhabitants.^[1]

Name

"Sečanj" is a Slavic name for the first month in the calendar year. The Serbian Ekavian variant of this name was eventually replaced with the new word "Januar" (corresponding to the common months as known in Western European cultures), while the Croatian Ijekavian variant "Siječanj" remains in use in Croatia.

In Serbian, the village is known as Сечањ or Sečanj, in Hungarian as Szécsány or Torontálszécsány, in German as Setschan or Petersheim, in Croatian as Sečanj, and in Romanian as Seceani.

Serbian, Hungarian, and Romanian language are officially used by municipal authorities.

TORONTÁL-SZÉCSAN in the Kingdom of Hungary (Torontál County) in 1871.

Historical population of the village

1837: 1,489
1900: 2,596
1961: 2,829
1971: 2,906
1981: 2,718
1991: 2,688
2002: 2,647
2011: 2,104

Inhabited places

The Sečanj municipality includes the town of Jaša Tomić and the following villages:

Ethnic groups (2011 census)

According to the 2011 census Sečanj municipality had 13,267 inhabitants, including:^[1]

Serbs = 9,195 (69.31%)
Hungarians = 1,691 (12.75%)
Romani = 714 (5.38%)
Romanians = 566 (4.27%)
Others and undeclared = 1,101 (8.30%)

The settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Sečanj, Banatska Dubica, Boka, Jarkovac, Jaša Tomić, Krajišnik, and Sutjeska. The settlement with Hungarian ethnic majority is Busenje. Ethnically mixed settlements with relative Serb majority are: Konak, Neuzina and Šurjan.

References

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

1 2 "Population by ethnicity – Sečanj". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS). Retrieved 4 March 2013.

Municipalities and cities of Vojvodina

Cities	Kikinda Novi Sad Novi Sad Petrovaradin Pančevo Sombor Sremska Mitrovica Subotica Vršac Zrenjanin

Municipalities	Ada Alibunar Apatin Bač Bačka Palanka Bačka Topola Bački Petrovac Bečej Bela Crkva Beočin Čoka Inđija Irig Kanjiža Kovačica Kovin Kula Mali Iđoš Nova Crnja Novi Bečej Novi Kneževac Odžaci Opovo Pećinci Plandište Ruma Sečanj Senta Šid Srbobran Sremski Karlovci Stara Pazova Temerin Titel Vrbas Žabalj Žitište

Municipalities and cities of Šumadija and Western Serbia

Cities	Čačak Jagodina Kragujevac Aerodrom Pivara Stanovo Stari Grad Stragari Kraljevo Kruševac Loznica Novi Pazar Šabac Užice Valjevo

Municipalities	Aleksandrovac Aranđelovac Arilje Bajina Bašta Batočina Bogatić Brus Čajetina Ćićevac Ćuprija Despotovac Gornji Milanovac Ivanjica Knić Koceljeva Kosjerić Krupanj Lajkovac Lapovo Lučani Ljig Ljubovija Mali Zvornik Mionica Nova Varoš Osečina Paraćin Požega Priboj Prijepolje Rača Raška Rekovac Sjenica Svilajnac Topola Trstenik Tutin Ub Varvarin Vladimirci Vrnjačka Banja

Municipalities and cities of Southern and Eastern Serbia

Cities	Leskovac Niš Crveni Krst Medijana Niška Banja Palilula Pantelej Pirot Požarevac Požarevac Kostolac Smederevo Vranje Vranje Vranjska Banja Zaječar

Municipalities	Aleksinac Babušnica Bela Palanka Blace Bojnik Boljevac Bor Bosilegrad Bujanovac Crna Trava Dimitrovgrad Doljevac Gadžin Han Golubac Kladovo Knjaževac Kučevo Kuršumlija Lebane Majdanpek Malo Crniće Medveđa Merošina Negotin Petrovac Preševo Prokuplje Ražanj Smederevska Palanka Sokobanja Surdulica Svrljig Trgovište Velika Plana Veliko Gradište Vladičin Han Vlasotince Žabari Žagubica Žitorađa

Municipalities and cities of Kosovo i Metohija¹

Cities	Priština

Municipalities	Dečani Đakovica Glogovac Gnjilane Gora Kosovo Polje Kosovska Kamenica Kosovska Mitrovica Istok Kačanik Klina Leposavić Lipljan Novo Brdo Obilić Orahovac Peć Podujevo Prizren Srbica Suva Reka Štimlje Štrpce Vitina Vučitrn Zubin Potok Zvečan

¹ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has received recognition as an independent state from 110 out of 193 United Nations member states.

Cities, towns and villages in the Central Banat District

Zrenjanin	Aradac Banatski Despotovac Belo Blato Botoš Elemir Ečka Jankov Most Klek Knićanin Lazarevo Lukino Selo Lukićevo Melenci Mihajlovo Orlovat Perlez Stajićevo Taraš Tomaševac Farkaždin Čenta

Žitište	Banatski Dvor Banatsko Višnjićevo Banatsko Karađorđevo Međa Novi Itebej Ravni Topolovac Srpski Itebej Torak Torda Hetin Čestereg

Nova Crnja	Aleksandrovo Vojvoda Stepa Radojevo Srpska Crnja Toba

Novi Bečej	Bočar Kumane Novo Miloševo

Sečanj	Banatska Dubica Boka Busenje Jarkovac Jaša Tomić Konak Krajišnik Neuzina Sutjeska Šurjan

*()** bold are municipalities or cities

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