Dubovac is a village

Village

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 in Serbia

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. It is situated in the Kovin

Kovin

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 municipality

Municipality

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, in the South Banat District

South Banat District

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, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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 province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,283 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

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, the village is known as Дубовац or Dubovac, in Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 as Dunadombó, in German

German language

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 as Dubowatz, in Croatian

Croatian language

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 as Dubovac.

History

The old village known as Stari Dubovac (Old Dubovac) was situated closer to the Danube river.

Historical population

Year	1961	1971	1981	1991	2002
Population	1,677	1,675	1,598	1,469	1,283

Major ethnic groups

Year	Total	Serbs Serbs The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...	Roma	Hungarians	Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Germans Germans The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....	Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...	Others
1991	1,469	87.54%	4.08%	2.04%	0.88%	3.40%	0.20%	0.34%	0.84%
2002	1,283	84.02%	8.65%	2.18%	1.09%	1.48%	0.54%	0.23%	1.81%

See also

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