Šuljam is a village located in the Sremska Mitrovica

Sremska Mitrovica

Sremska Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, on the left bank of the Sava river. As of 2002 the town had a total population of 39,041, while Sremska Mitrovica municipality had a population of 85,605...

 municipality, in the Srem District

Srem District

Syrmia or Srem District is a northwestern district of Serbia. It lies in the regions of Syrmia and Mačva, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 309,981...

 of Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 744 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, the village is known as Šuljam (Шуљам), in Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

 as Šuljam, and 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 Sulyom.
In 1579 Suljam is known as a village, but on maps it is showed for the first time in 1730.

Historical population

• 1793: 513
• 1810: 550
• 1961: 952
• 1971: 863
• 1981: 777
• 1991: 741
• 2002: 744

Family names of the villagers

Some of the prominent families in the village include:
Miloradić, Vidović, Manastirac, Janković, Bošković, Kuzminac, Apić, Radosavljević, Stefanović, Đurić, Smiljanić, Grujić, Vidić, Janić, Dević, Subić, Ivković, Terzić, Lazić, Vasić, Milinković, Đurđević, Jurišić, Ostojić, Lukić, Ličinar, Andrić etc.

Smatra se da je prvu vinovu lozu u Istočnom Rimskom Carstvu na Fruškoj gori(ALMA MONS)
a iznad Šuljma na brdu zvanom Glavica zasadio rimski imperator Probus