Mali Iđoš | |
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 Church of Saint Anne in Mali Iđoš | |
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 Location of the municipality of Mali Iđoš within Serbia | |
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| Coordinates:45°42′25″N19°39′52″E / 45.70694°N 19.66444°E /45.70694; 19.66444 | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Province |  Vojvodina |
| District | North Bačka |
| Settlements | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Marko Lazić (SNS) |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 175 km2 (68 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 88 m (289 ft) |
| Population (2022 census)[2] | |
| • Municipality | 9,983 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 24321 |
| Area code | +381 24 |
| Car plates | SU |
Mali Iđoš (Montenegrin/Serbian Cyrillic:Мали Иђош,pronounced[mâːliːîdʑoʃ];Hungarian:Kishegyes,pronounced[ˈkiʃhɛɟɛʃ]) is a village and municipality located in theNorth Bačka District of the autonomous provinceVojvodina,Serbia. The municipality comprises three local communities and has a population of 9,983, of whom 5,174 (51.8%) areHungarians, 2,313 (23.1%) areSerbs and 1,226 (12.3%) areMontenegrins.[3]
The first part of the name of the village, "mali" ("little" in English), was given in contrast to the village with similar name (Iđoš), which is situated in northernBanat. The etymology goes back to the Hungarian name, 'Kishegyes', consisting of 'kis' (little) and 'hegyes' (mountainy [place]).
Mali Iđoš municipality includes the following villages:
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1948 | 17,683 | — |
| 1953 | 16,767 | −1.06% |
| 1961 | 17,144 | +0.28% |
| 1971 | 15,651 | −0.91% |
| 1981 | 14,975 | −0.44% |
| 1991 | 14,394 | −0.39% |
| 2002 | 13,494 | −0.59% |
| 2011 | 12,031 | −1.27% |
| 2022 | 9,983 | −1.68% |
| Source:[4][3] | ||
According to the 2022 census results, the municipality of Mali Iđoš has a population of 9,983 inhabitants.[3]
Local communities with aHungarian majority are Mali Iđoš andFeketić. There is one local community with aMontenegrin majority:Lovćenac.
The ethnic composition of the municipality:[3]
| Ethnicity | Population | Share |
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| Hungarians | 5,174 | 51.8% |
| Serbs | 2,313 | 23.1% |
| Montenegrins | 1,226 | 12.3% |
| Roma | 372 | 3.7% |
| Albanians | 45 | 0.4% |
| Muslims | 33 | 0.3% |
| Yugoslavs | 29 | 0.3% |
| Croats | 22 | 0.2% |
| Rusyns | 20 | 0.2% |
| Macedonians | 11 | 0.1% |
| Others | 738 | 7.4% |
| Total | 9,983 |
The name of Kishegyes was first mentioned in historical documents in 1476, without naming the shire, when the estates of the Maróthi family in the region of theTisza river were counted. On 16 February 1462Matthias Corvinus gave the settlements listed in the document as a present to his mother,Erzsébet Szilágyi. The destruction of the village started in 1514. The riot ofGyörgy Dózsa required not only material damages, demolitions, driving away of cattle, but also a huge number of human victims. All this was followed by thedefeat of Mohács. After the battle, the victor, the general of sultanSuleiman the Magnificent withdrew between theDanube and theTisza rivers. The institutional Turkish subjection started after thefall of Buda, in 1541. The village became totally destroyed under Turkish occupation in the 16th century. The later Turkish tax assessment registers mention Kishegyes in the nahije of Szabadka with 18 houses to pay taxes in 1580–82 and 1590–91, and 17 in Nagyhegyes in 1580 and 23 houses in 1590. In 1652 the inhabitants of Hegyes paid taxes toFerenc Wesselényi. It was repopulated in 1769 by 81 Roman Catholic Hungarian families fromBékésszentandrás.[5] During theHungarian Revolution of 1848 inBattle of Hegyes, the Hungarian soldiers gained a victory in Kishegyes on 14 July 1849. The region is extremely well suited for agriculture and the village increased in wealth and population until the 1980s. In the 1990s the local economy was ruined and young people began to emigrate to Hungary. Today the rate of unemployment is appr. 30 percent, and the Agricultural Cooperative and the Commercial Company went bankrupt. After the end of the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia (1995–96) Serbian refugees arrived to Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes). There are no ethnic tensions between native Hungarians and the Serbian refugees.
The oldest building in Mali Iđoš is the baroque Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne (1788) on the Main Street. There is an old Calvary, the obelisk of theBattle of Hegyes and the ruins of the Pecze Mansion. The natural attractions are the RiverKrivaja and the imposing loessal walls of theHills of Telečka.
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