Vajska

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Vajska Вајска (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
Labudnjača
Map of Vajska and other settlements in the neighborhood
45°25′N 19°07′E / 45.417°N 19.117°E / 45.417; 19.117
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka (Podunavlje)
District	South Bačka
Municipality	Bač
Population (2011)
• Total	2,834
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Vajska (Serbian Cyrillic: Вајска listen^ⓘ; Romanian: Vaisca) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bač municipality, in the South Bačka District, Vojvodina province. Two neighbouring settlements, Labudnjača (Serbian Cyrillic: Лабудњача; 45°27′N 19°02′E / 45.450°N 19.033°E / 45.450; 19.033) and Živa, are also officially regarded as parts of Vajska although they are physically separated from it. The name Labudnjača is derived from Serbian labud 'swan'.

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Vajska (Вајска), in Croatian as Vajska, in Hungarian as Vajszka or Józsefháza, in German as Wajska and in Romanian as Vaisca.

History

During the early stage of the Yugoslav Wars and following the Battle of Borovo Selo in neighbouring Croatia, Danube river link was established between Vajska and Borovo 4 of May 1991 which during its operation reportedly served between 10-30,000 passengers including Croat refugees leaving the village of Borovo.^[1]

Demographics

The population of the village numbered 2,834 people as of the 2011 census.^[2] In 2002, the population included 1,319 Serbs, 569 Romanians, 353 Croats, 341 Hungarians, 207 Yugoslavs, and others.

Historical population

1961: 4,355
1971: 3,798
1981: 3,448
1991: 3,272
2002: 3,169

Gallery

Map of the Bač municipality showing the location of Vajska.
Saint George the Martyr Catholic church.

References

^ Filipović, Vladimir (2022). "Srpska pobuna u selima vukovarske općine 1990. - 1991" [Serb Rebelion in the Villages of Vukovar Municipality 1990. - 1991.]. Scrinia Slavonica (in Croatian). 22 (1). Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja of the Croatian Institute of History: 291–319. doi:10.22586/ss.22.1.9. Retrieved 4 December 2022 – via Hrčak.
^ "COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF THE NUMBER OF POPULATION IN 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 AND 2011" (PDF). Publikacije Stat. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2022.