Pločica

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Pločica Плочица
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox Church
44°43′07″N 20°53′02″E / 44.71861°N 20.88389°E / 44.71861; 20.88389
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	57 m (187 ft)
Population (2002)
• Pločica	2,044
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26229
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	KO

Pločica (Serbian Cyrillic: Плочица) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (94.32%) and a population of 2,044 (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Pločica (Плочица), in Hungarian as Kevepallós, in German as Ploschitz or Blauschütz, and in Romanian as Plocița.

History

The area was originally settled by Serbs in the end of the 17th century and later by the German colonists in the end of the 18th century. In 1910, village had Serb majority and sizable Danube Swabian minority. Until the Second World War, 1,300 Danube Swabians lived in Pločica.^[1]

Historical population

1948: 2,364
1953: 2,702
1961: 2,371
1971: 2,146
1981: 2,100
1991: 2,013

Ethnic groups

Year	Total	Serbs	Yugoslavs	Hungarians	Montenegrins	Macedonians	Germans	Romanians	Other
1991	2,013	91.85%	2.83%	1.29%	1.19%	0.89%	0.49%	0.49%	0.26%
2002	2,044	94.32%	0.44%	2.1%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	1.98%

References

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

^ "DVHH | Banat | History | Genocide in the Yugoslavian Banat |The Southern Banat: Ploschitz". Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-05-15.