Dužine

Dužine Дужине
Village (Selo)
Roman Catholic church in Dužine in 1934
45°17′12″N 20°59′32″E / 45.28667°N 20.99222°E / 45.28667; 20.99222
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	74 m (243 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Dužine	219
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Dužine (Serbian Cyrillic: Дужине) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (54,33%) with a present Macedonian (31,05%) and Slovenian (8,21%) minority. Its population numbering 219 people (2002 census). There is also an officially recognized Macedonian minority population living in Dužine.^[1]

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Dužine / Дужине (formerly also Sečenovo / Сеченово), in Macedonian as Дужине, in Hungarian as Szécsenfalva, and in German as Setschanfeld.

Historical population

• 1961: 623
• 1971: 400
• 1981: 282
• 1991: 234
• 2002: 219

References

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

See also

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

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