Velika Greda - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Velika Greda is a village

Village

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in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is situated in the Plandište

Plandište

Plandište is a village and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 4,248, while Plandište municipality has 13,355 inhabitants...

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 Serb ethnic majority and a Macedonian minority, and its population numbering 1,374 people (2002 census).

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In Serbian

Serbian language

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, the village is known as Velika Greda (Велика Греда), in Hungarian

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....

as Györgyháza, and in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

as Georgshausen.

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