Maradik

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Maradik
Марадик (Serbian)
Maradék (Hungarian)
View of the village
View of the village
Maradik is located in Vojvodina
Maradik
Maradik
Maradik is located in Serbia
Maradik
Maradik
Maradik is located in Europe
Maradik
Maradik
Coordinates: 45°06′N 20°00′E / 45.100°N 20.000°E / 45.100; 20.000
CountrySerbia
ProvinceVojvodina
DistrictSyrmia
Population
 (2002)
 • Total2,095
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Serbian Orthodox church
The Calvinist church.

Maradik (Serbian Cyrillic: Марадик) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the region of Syrmia (Syrmia District), in Inđija municipality. Maradik is located about 10 km west of Inđija. The village has a 60% Serb ethnic majority and its total population in 2011 was 2,095.

Name[edit]

In Serbian, the village is known as Maradik or Марадик, in Croatian as Maradik, and in Hungarian as Maradék.[citation needed]

History[edit]

After Hungarian Roman Catholic residents of the village were rejected by bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in their request to get Hungarian language speaking priest, their representatives went to Budapest to meet reformed bishop to request collective conversion to Protestantism.[1]

Ethnic groups (2002 census)[edit]

  • Serbs = 1,394 (60.66%)
  • Hungarians = 552 (24.02%)
  • Croats = 105 (4.57%)
  • Yugoslavs = 90 (3.92%)

Historical population[edit]

  • 1961: 2,651
  • 1971: 2,350
  • 1981: 2,255
  • 1991: 2,120
  • 2002: 2,298
  • 2011: 2,095

References[edit]

  1. ^ Barišić Bogišić, Lidija (2022). O neslavenskom stanovništvu na vukovarskom području. Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada. p. 164. ISBN 978-953-169-497-1.

Sources[edit]

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

See also[edit]

45°06′N 20°00′E / 45.100°N 20.000°E / 45.100; 20.000