Vrsac (Municipality, Yugoslavia [Serbia])

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History of Vrsac

Vrsac (Hungarian, Versec ; German, Werschitz ) is a town and district in Vojvodina, close to the Romanian border. The town has got 36.940 inhabitants (1990 census).

• XIVth century: Foundation of the settlement by Serbian refugees.
• 1439: First mention of the city, part of the Krasso county in the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1459 & 1481: Serbian settlements in the city.
• 1552-1716: Part of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1717-1778 Part of the Governorate of Temesch in the Hapsburg Empire.
  • 1717-1751 and 1775-1778: Seat of a district.
• 1778: Reunification of Governorate of Temesch with Hungary. Pancevo part of the renewed Temes county.
• 1795: Unification with a German neighbouring village.
• 1804: Borough
• 1850-1861: After the defeat of the Hungarian Independence War (1848-1849), allocated to a new province (Governorate of Temes and Serbian Vojvodina).
• 1861: Free Royal City.

The 1910 population census yielded 27.370 inhabitants, divided as follows:

• Census by mother language:
  • German: 13.556 (49,5%)
  • Serbian: 8.602 (31,4%)
  • Hungarian: 3.890 (14,2%)
  • Romanian: 879 (3,2%)
  • Others: 443 (1,6%)
• Census by religion:
  • Roman Catholic: 16.336 (59,7%)
  • Greek Orthodox: 9.544 (34,9%)
  • Jewish: 743 (2,7%)
  • Others: 747 (2,7%)

In 1919, the city was under French occupation. From 1920 (Treaty of Trianon) to 1941, the city was incorporated to Yugoslavia. In 1941-1944, the area was occupied and annexed by Germany. The Treaty of Paris reallocated it to Yugoslavia in 1947.

The city is the birthplace of the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herceg.

Istvan Molnar, 9 October 2000

Flag of Vrsac (Versec) in Austro-Hungarian Empire

by Istvan Molnar

Blue and white per gyronny.

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