Vlajkovac

Vlajkovac Влајковац (Serbian) Temesvajkóc (Hungarian) Vlaicovăț (Romanian)
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox Church
Vlajkovac Location of Vlajkovac within Serbia Vlajkovac Vlajkovac (Serbia) Vlajkovac Vlajkovac (Europe)
Coordinates: 45°04′17″N 21°12′01″E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Municipality	Vršac
Elevation	80 m (260 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Vlajkovac	1,178
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26332
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Vlajkovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Влајковац; Hungarian: Temesvajkóc; Romanian: Vlaicovăț) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Vlajkovac (Влајковац), in Romanian as Vlaicovăț, in Hungarian as Temesvajkóc, and in German as Wlajkowatz.

History

Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads were found in the village. Just outside the village there are Vlajkovac circles that have a diameter of around 300 meters and are considered to belong to the Vinča neolithic culture. Vlajkovac circles have been plowed over several times and now only their outlines are visible. They are visible from satellites.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The village has a Serb ethnic majority with a seizable Romanian and Hungarian minority and its population numbering 1,178 people (2002 census).

• Serbs = 656 (55.68%)
• Romanians = 288 (24.44%)
• Hungarians = 182 (15.44%)
• Yugoslavs = 16

Population history

The DTD (Danube-Tisa-Danube) channel at village Vlajkovac.

• 1961: 1,855
• 1971: 1,530
• 1981: 1,356
• 1991: 1,328
• 2002: 1,178

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Further reading

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