Čantavir

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Subotica

Kelebija

Čantavir

Municipality of
Subotica
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The Saint Anthony Padovanian Catholic Church.

Čantavir (Serbian: Čantavir or Чантавир, Hungarian: Csantavér, Croatian: Čantavir, Bunjevac: Čantavir) is the largest village with Hungarian ethnic majority in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the municipality of Subotica, North Bačka District. The population of the village is 7,178 (2002 census). The main occupation of the villagers is agriculture and stock breeding.

1 Historical population
2 School and culture
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Historical population

1921: 8,969
1931: 11,287
1948: 9,397
1953: 9,262
1961: 9,341
1971: 9,085
1981: 8,596
1991: 7,940

[edit] School and culture

There is an elementary school in Čantavir named "Narodni Heroji" (in Serbian) or "Néphősök" (in Hungarian), meaning "National Heroes" in English. This school have had a very famous children choir conducted by Éva Gubena music teacher [1] (she got the prize "Sparkle of culture" at year 2001 st.). At year 1995th, some young people, previous members of famous children choir (Bodor/ Huszár/ Melinda, Barkóci/ Juhász/ Szilvia, Pósa/ Faragó/ Gabriella, Sándor/ Pósa/ Csilla, Poljaković/ Zabos/ Marianna) started a ladies choir 'Primavera' under conduction of Éva Gubena. Since 1996 Primavera became a mixed voice chamber choir 'Musica Viva'. They tried to bring live music to the hearts of their audience on concerts, festivals and other events. On their programme there're a numerous compositions from all area of the history of music.

[edit] References

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

v • d • e Cities, towns and villages in the North Bačka District

Subotica: Bajmok • Bački Vinogradi • Bačko Dušanovo • Bikovo • Višnjevac • Gornji Tavankut • Donji Tavankut • Đurđin • Kelebija • Ljutovo • Mala Bosna • Mišićevo • Novi Žednik • Palić • Stari Žednik • Hajdukovo • Čantavir • Šupljak Bačka Topola: Bagremovo • Bajša • Bački Sokolac • Bogaraš • Gornja Rogatica • Gunaroš • Zobnatica • Kavilo • Karađorđevo • Krivaja • Mali Beograd • Mićunovo • Novo Orahovo • Njegoševo • Obornjača • Tomislavci • Panonija • Pačir • Pobeda • Svetićevo • Srednji Salaš • Stara Moravica Mali Iđoš: Lovćenac • Feketić *()** bold are municipalities