Banatsko Višnjićevo

Banatsko Višnjićevo Банатско Вишњићево
Village
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Banatsko Višnjićevo Location of Banatsko Višnjićevo within Serbia
Banatsko Višnjićevo Location of Banatsko Višnjićevo within Vojvodina
Coordinates:
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Elevation	59 m (194 ft)
Population (2002)
• Banatsko Višnjićevo	384
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Banatsko Višnjićevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Банатско Вишњићево) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (94.27%) and its population was 384 as of the 2002 census.

Name

The exact origin of the village name is unclear. It was either named after the famous Serb epic poet Filip Višnjić or for the cherry tree ("višnja" in Serbian) that was founded here by the first settlers, or after the surveyor Višnjić, who performed first measuring in the settlement. In Hungarian the village is known as Vida.

Historical population

• 1961: 677
• 1971: 577
• 1981: 458
• 1991: 391

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Further reading

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