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Pločica is a village

Village

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in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is situated in the Kovin

Kovin

Kovin is a town and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 14,250, while the municipality has 36,802 inhabitants.- Name :...

municipality

Municipality

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, in the South Banat District

South Banat District

South Banat District is a northeastern district of Serbia with the seat of the district in Pančevo. It borders Romania to the east. The district lies in the region of Banat, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina...

, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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province. The village has a Serbian ethnic majority and a population of 2,044 (2002 census).

Historical population

The area was settled by German colonists in the 18th century. Until the Second World War, 1,300 Danube Swabians

Danube Swabians

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lived in Pločica.

1948: 2,364
1953: 2,702
1961: 2,371
1971: 2,146
1981: 2,100
1991: 2,013

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...	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...	Hungarians	Montenegrins	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...	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....	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Rest
1991	2,013	91.85%	2.83%	1.29%	1.19%	0.89%	0.49%	0.49%	0.26%
2002	2,044	94.32%	0.44%	2.1%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	1.98%

Historical population

Ethnic groups

See also