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ĐURĐEVO – Wikipedia

Đurđevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурђево, Rusyn: Дюрдьов) is a village located in the Žabalj municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 5,137 people (2002 census). Besides Serbs (numbering 3,538 people), the village also has a large Rusyn (Ruthenian) minority (numbering 1,197 people).

Đurđevo it was built on a meridian road which goes along the right bank of the Tisza River. The east part of this village is situated next to an alluvial plain. This village was constructed in accordance with the regulations of planned building. In Đurđevo the streets are wide and laid out in a grid system. In the middle of the village is a vast area surrounded with a park around which are all important public buildings and private houses. In contrast to the square shape of the village, the land around it is unsymmetrical and is placed on feudal properties at the beginning of the 19th century. It was then when Đurđevo was incorporated in the battalion of Šajkaš.

Evidence of Đurđevo’s existence dates back to the 14th and 15th century. During the Ottoman reign Đurđevo belonged to the local government of Titel, which was then in the province of Szeged. In the year 1570 Đurđevo had four houses, but later it was deserted. It was rebuilt in 1800, when 203 Serbian families moved there from Temerin. Đurđevo got its name probably because it was rebuilt in spring, on Đurđevdan (one of the biggest holidays in Orthodox Christianity in Serbia). This name could also have originated from the name of the terrain which was earlier called Almaš-Senđerđ (Almas-Szentgyorgy), or maybe because in 1413 there was a village on that place, called Đerđi (Gyorgyi), and the Serbs called it Đorđevac. All in all, there is no written evidence concerning the name origin of the village. After the demobilization of the battalion of Šajkaš in 1873 Đurđevo belonged to Bač-Bodroška district.

During the 19th century the number of inhabitants significantly increased. Especially Ruthenians (Rusyns) contributed to this, because they came in great number from other places. At the end of the 19th century Germans and Hungarians also inhabited the village. The inhabitants of the village cultivated land. There were also artisans, and data about them is from 1815. In this year, a couple of shop keepers and cattle sellers are mentioned as well.

In 1900 Đurđevo had its farming cooperative, and in 1904 it had Serbian credit union. Between the two World Wars Đurđevo had three farming cooperatives, i.e. between 1929 and 1940. The Ruthenians (Rusyns) from Đurđevo were also members of these cooperatives. Đurđevo also had a farming credit union (1929 – 1941). As for the industry in Đurđevo, there was a flour mill and a brick factory. The municipal agricultural society of Ruthenians (Rusyns) has operated since 1913. 

Serbian Orthodox Church, Crkva Svetog Spasa, has been erected shortly afterwards the inhabiting of this place. It was built from solid material, it is 28m long and 8m wide, its tower is 22,7m high. There is also a Greek-Catholic Church, Crkva Roždestva Presvete Bogorodice.

The Serbian school was built after the inhabiting of the village in 1800, and the Ruthenian (Rusyn)  school began to work in 1880. In 1919 these two schools merged and formed the state school and this site is dedicated especially to this school – primary school “Jovan Jovanović Zmaj” in Đurđevo.

The lectures in our school are held both in Serbian and Ruthenian (Rusyn) language, so this site is available in two languages…

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