Pancevo (Municipality,Yugoslavia [Serbia])

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History of Pancevo

Pancevo (Hungarian, Pancsova ; German, Pantschowa ; Romanian, Panciova) is a town and district in Vojvodina, close to Belgrade on the left bank of the Danube. The town has got 72.717 inhabitants (1990 census).

• Roman era: Mention of a fort
• IXth century: Mention of Fort Panuka or Pancsal
• 1241-42: Destruction of the fort by the Mongols and its rebuilding by Bela IV. The settlement was part of the Keve county in the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1552-1716: Part of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1717-1778 Part of the Governorate of Temesch in the Hapsburg Empire.
• 1778: Reunification of Governorate of Temesch with Hungary. Pancevo part of the renewed Torontal county.
• 1794: Free Royal City.

The 1910 population census yielded 20.808 inhabitants, divided as follows:

• Census by mother language:
  • Serbian: 8.714 (41,9%)
  • German: 7.467 (35,9%)
  • Hungarian: 3.364 (16,2%)
  • Romanian: 769 (3,7%)
  • Slovak: 244 (1,2%)
  • Croatian: 135 (0,6%)
  • Others: 115 (0,6%)
• Census by religion:
  • Greek Orthodox: 9.361 (45,0%)
  • Roman Catholic: 7.510 (36,1%)
  • Lutheran: 1.979 (9,5%)
  • Calvinist: 999 (4,8%)
  • Jewish: 708 (3,4%)
  • Others: 251 (1,2%)

From 1918/1920 (Declaration of Novi Sad /Treaty of Trianon) to 1941, the city was incorporated to Yugoslavia. In 1941, the area was occupied and annexed by Germany. The Treaty of Paris reallocated it to Yugoslavia in 1947.

Istvan Molnar, 9 October 2000

Flag of Pancevo (Pancsova) in Austro-Hungarian Empire

by Istvan Molnar

Source: Szell, S. Varosaink neve, cimere es loboguja, 1941