Gudurica

Gudurica

Гудурица
Gudurica Гудурица
Village (Selo)
	Gudurica Location of Gudurica within Serbia Gudurica Gudurica (Serbia) Gudurica Gudurica (Europe)
	Coordinates: 45°10′08″N 21°26′21″E / 45.16889°N 21.43917°E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Municipality	Vršac
Elevation	111 m (364 ft)
Population (2011)
• Gudurica	1,092
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26335
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Gudurica (Serbian Cyrillic: Гудурица; Hungarian: Temeskutas) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (66.21%) and a sizable ethnic Macedonian minority (10.49%), and its population numbering 1,092 people (2011 census). Part of the Macedonians of Gudurica are in fact assimilated Aromanians and specially Megleno-Romanians that came to the village from the Macedonian SR it following the expulsion of its native German population.

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Gudurica (Гудурица), in Macedonian as Гудурица, in Hungarian as Temeskutas, and in German as Kudritz.

History

The village was firstly mentioned in 1358. During Ottoman administration (16th-18th century) it was a Serb village. In 1728, it was settled by the Italians. Later, it was populated by Germans, and already in 1753, it was predominantly German settlement. The village was located in a swampy area in the Banat Region. The first German settlers in Kudritz came from the Mosel river area in Western Germany, Alsace and Lorraine between 1719 and 1728. Descendants of the German inhabitants lived here until the end of World War II, when most of them left from the area. After World War II, the village was populated by South Slavic (mostly Serb and Macedonian) settlers. 2002 census also recorded 3 villagers of German ethnicity.^{[citation needed]} Part of the Macedonian inhabitants of Gudurica are ethnic Aromanians and specially Megleno-Romanians or their descendants who self-identify as such as a result of assimilation. They were brought after World War II but were counted simply as Slavs, this being the reason why they have been largely ignored. Despite being mostly extinct, some Megleno-Romanians still remain in Gudurica; as of 2014, 3 people could speak the Megleno-Romanian language on the village.^[1]

Historical population

1961: 2,105
1971: 1,560
1981: 1,448
1991: 1,338
2002: 1,267
2011: 1,092

References

^ Sorescu Marinković, Annemarie; Măran, Mircea (2015). "Megleno-Romanians in Serbia – shifting borders, shifting identity". Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe. pp. 365–377.

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Vrsac/Werschetz location in Banat Vršac

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[1] Sorescu Marinković, Annemarie; Măran, Mircea (2015). "Megleno-Romanians in Serbia – shifting borders, shifting identity". Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe. pp. 365–377.

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