Izbište

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Izbište Избиште
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox Church
45°01′07″N 21°11′07″E / 45.01861°N 21.18528°E / 45.01861; 21.18528
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	100 m (300 ft)
Population (2011)
• Izbište	1,464
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26343
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Izbište (Serbian Cyrillic: Избиште, pronounced [ǐzbiːʃtɛ]; Hungarian: Izbistye) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (86.74%) and its population is 1,464 according to the 2011 census.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Izbište (Избиште), in Romanian as Pârneaora, in Hungarian as Izbistye, and in German as Izbischte.

The first written evidence

The oldest preserved written document in which the mentioned populated place Izbište dates from 1660, and it follows that from 1666 year. In both cases it is a hand written scrapbook of Serbian Orthodox Church priest, who keeps track of the contributions of households. Scrapbook or "Katastig", as was then called, contains a list of financial and commodity contributions, which are, by any obligation or voluntarily, are given to Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. This document is now stored in the Library of Serbian Patriarchate.

Izbište Street Panorama

Famous residents

Žarko Zrenjanin-Uča – people's hero of Yugoslavia, partisan and leader of communist movement in Vojvodina, was born in 1902 in Izbište.
Isa Jovanović – people's hero, Yugoslav partisan, after the war a member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Anđa Jovanović-Ranković – people's hero, Yugoslav partisan, killed during World War II in Yugoslavia.

Population

The post-war development of Izbište was stop by destruction of brick-field and power plant. Izbište had up to 3500 inhabitants, many of whom were educated and as such, went for Vršac, Bela Crkva, Pančevo, Belgrade and then continued their careers there.