Telečka is a village in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is in the Sombor

Sombor

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 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

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 province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.

History

Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%)
• 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...
  
   = 429 (20.59%)
• Roma = 37 (1.78%)
• Yugoslavs
  Yugoslavs
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   = 23 (1.10%)
• Croats
  Croats
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  = 13 (0.62%)
• others.

Historical population

• 1961: 2,996
• 1971: 2,665
• 1981: 2,429
• 1991: 2,138

External links

• www.soinfo.org
• http://bacsgyulafalva.5mp.eu