Senta (Municipality,Serbia and Montenegro [Serbia])

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• History of Senta
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• Serbia and Montenegro
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• Serbia
• Vojvodina
• Austro-Hungarian Empire

History of Senta

Senta (Hungarian, Zenta) is a town and district in Vojvodina, close to the Hungarian border. The town has got 22,819 inhabitants, 79% of them being Hungarians (1990 census).

• 1216: Prosperous town, as Szintarev.
• 1246: Part of the Csanad county in the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1506: After a war with the neighbouring city of Szeged (1475), Free Royal City.
• 1526: After the battle of Mohacs, destruction by the Ottomans.
• XVIth century: Building of a Turkish fort and a Serbian village. Ottoman rule.
• 1697 (27 September); Battle of Zenta. Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army.
• 1699: Reallocated to Hungary by the treaty of Karlowitz.
• 1751. Most Serbians settlers moved to Ukraine.
• 1785: Ukrainian Cossacks migrated to Senta.
• 1850-1861: After the defeat of the Hungarian Independence War (1848-1849), allocated to a new province (Governorate of Temes and Serbian Vojvodina).
• 1910: Town in Bacs-Bodrog County of the Kingdom of Hungary.

The 1910 population census yielded 29,666 inhabitants, divided as follows:

• Census by mother language:
  • Hungarian: 27,221 (91.8%)
  • Serbian: 2,020 (6.8%)
  • Others: 425 (1.4%)
• Census by religion:
  • Roman Catholic: 26,023 (87.7%)
  • Greek Orthodox: 2,076 (7.0%)
  • Jewish: 1.328 (4.5%)
  • Others: 239 (0.8%)

In 1918, the city was under Serbian occupation. From 1920 (Treaty of Trianon) to 1941, the city was incorporated to Yugoslavia. In 1941-1944, the area was occupied and annexed by Hungary. The Treaty of Paris reallocated it to Yugoslavia in 1947.

Istvan Molnar, 10 December 2000

Flag of Senta (Zenta) in Austro-Hungarian Empire

by António Martins

The flag was blue with two yellow keys crossed in saltire and pointing upwards (ascending below descending) put on an ear of wheat, from the handle hole of each key, a fish swimming through.

Source: Szell, S. Varosaink neve, cimere es loboguja, 1941