Svilojevo is a village in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is situated in the Apatin

Apatin

Apatin is a town and municipality in the Vojvodina administrative region of Serbia, located in the West Bačka District, at . The town of Apatin is the administrative, economic, cultural, educational and tourist centre of the municipality of Apatin...

 municipality, in the West Bačka District

West Backa District

West Bačka District is a northern district of Serbia. It lies in the region of Bačka, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 215,916...

, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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 province. The population of the village numbering 1,364 people (2002 census), most of whom are ethnic Hungarians.

History

In the year 2001, the village celebrated one hundred years from its establishment, and in 2006, recently renovated, the church became a hundred years old.

On the session of the Municipality of Apatin in June 2006, Hungarian language

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 gain the status of the official language in Svilojevo. Until then, Serbian language was the sole official language in this village , although Hungarians comprised majority in the village since the country of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

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 was established.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Hungarians = 792 (58.07%)
• 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...
  
   = 403 (29.55%)
• Croats
  Croats
  Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
  
   = 47 (3.45%)
• 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...
  
  = 19 (1.39%)
• others.

External links

• Svilojevo