Aradac is a village located in the Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...

 municipality, in the Central Banat District

Central Banat District

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 of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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, Serbia

Serbia

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. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 3,461 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

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 and Croatian

Croatian language

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, the village is known as Aradac (Арадац), in Slovak

Slovak language

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 as Aradáč, in Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 as Aradi, and in German

German language

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 as Aradatz.

1971

According to the 1971 census, ethnic Slovaks

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 comprised 58.56% of population of the village.

2002

In 2002, the population of the village included:

• 1,650 (47.67%) Serbs
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• 1,376 (39.76%) Slovaks
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• 96 (2.77%) Roma
• 94 (2.72%) Hungarians
• 49 (1.42%) Yugoslavs
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• 17 (0.49%) Croats
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• others.