Plandište is a village and municipality in South Banat District

South Banat District

South Banat District is a northeastern district of Serbia with the seat of the district in Pančevo. It borders Romania to the east. The district lies in the region of Banat, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina...

 of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. The village has a population of 4,248, while Plandište municipality has 13,355 inhabitants. One of municipality's best known landmarks is Kapetanovo Castle

Kapetanovo Castle

Kapetanovo Castle is a neogothic castle located in the village of Stari Lec, in the Plandište municipality in northeastern Serbia. In 1991, it was included on the national list of monuments of culture of great importance, and since then it has been protected....

, located in Stari Lec

Stari Lec

Stari Lec is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,094 people...

.

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, the village is known as Пландиште or Plandište, in Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 as Plandişte, in Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 as Zichyfalva, and in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 as Zichydorf.

The name of the village derived from the word "plandovati" used in the local Serbian dialect, which in modern standard Serbian means "odmarati", and in English means "rest".

History

First data about this settlement is from the second half of the 17th century when it was mentioned under name "Morminta". In this time, settlement was populated by Serbs. After Germans were settled in this area (in 1783), settlement was expanded and named "Zičidorf". In 1805, settlement had population of 2,037 people. After World War I it was named "Mariolana" and after World War II it was named "Plandište". In the end of World War II, Germans left to Germany, while 1,919 colonists from Macedonia, other places of Vojvodina, Slovenia and Croatia settled in Plandište. Before World War I, settlement was part of Banlok municipality, and later it was part of Vršac municipality. During 1950s, Plandište became administrative seat of its own municipality.

Source: Stevan Kovačević, Gradovi Srbije u slici i reči, Beograd, 2010.

Inhabited places

Plandište municipality includes the following villages:

• Plandište
• Banatski Sokolac
  Banatski Sokolac
  Banatski Sokolac is a village located in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 366 people...
  
  
• Barice
  Barice
  Barice is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 598 people .-See also:...
  
  
• Velika Greda
  Velika Greda
  Velika Greda is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province...
  
  
• Veliki Gaj
  Veliki Gaj
  Veliki Gaj is a village located in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
  
  
• Dužine
  Dužine
  Dužine is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 219 people...
  
  
• Jermenovci
  Jermenovci
  Jermenovci is a village located in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
  
  
• Kupinik
  Kupinik (Plandište)
  Kupinik is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 349 people .-See also:...
  
  
• Laudonovac
  Laudonovac
  Laudonovac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 24 people .-References:...
  
  
• Margita
  Margita
  Margita can refer to:* Margita, a village near Plandište, Vojvodina, Serbia.* Margita or Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland, a town near Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria....
  
  
• Markovićevo
  Markovicevo
  Markovićevo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 216 people .-External links:*...
  
  
• Miletićevo
  Mileticevo
  Miletićevo is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 622 people .-Name:...
  
  
• Stari Lec
  Stari Lec
  Stari Lec is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,094 people...
  
  
• Hajdučica
  Hajducica
  Hajdučica is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province...
  
  

Population

Historical population of the village:

Year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981
Total	2,937	2,636	3,128	3,192	2,846	3,120	3,281	3,040	3,096	3,509	3,769	4,122

Ethnic groups in the municipality

• Serbs
  Serbs
  The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
  
   (56.36%)
• Hungarians (12.1%)
• Macedonians
  Macedonians (ethnic group)
  The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...
  
   (9.69%)
• Romanians
  Romanians
  The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
  
   (7.21%)
• Slovaks
  Slovaks
  The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
  
   (5.41%)
• Yugoslavs
  Yugoslavs
  Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
  
   (2.24%)
• Roma (2.01%)

Settlements by ethnic majority

Settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Plandište, Banatski Sokolac, Velika Greda, Veliki Gaj, Dužine, Kupinik, Laudonovac, Markovićevo, Miletićevo, and Stari Lec. The settlement with Romanian ethnic majority is Barice. The settlement with Hungarian ethnic majority is Jermenovci. Ethnically mixed settlement with relative Serb majority is Margita. Ethnically mixed settlement with relative Slovak majority is Hajdučica.

Ethnic groups in the village

Year	Total	Serbs Serbs The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...	Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...	Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...	Hungarians	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Slovaks Slovaks The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...	Montenegrins	Unknown
1991	4,380	54.84%	23.69%	9.2%	5.57%	1.57%	0.82%	0.66%	3.65%
2002	4,270	59.46%	21.31%	3.93%	5.69%	1.7%	0.96%	0.42%	6.53%

Gallery