Nikinci
Nikinci is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,216 people.Name
In Serbian the village is known as Nikinci, in Croatian as Nikinci, and in Hungarian as Nyékinca. The name of the town in Serbian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as "Nikinci are" instead of "Nikinci is". A hypothetical singular version of the name would be Nikinac.History
In 1737, about 1,600 Catholic Albanians from the Kelmendi tribe came to Srem. They were settled in the villages of Nikinci and Hrtkovci. Today, their descendants consider themselves Croats.- Serbs = 1,534
- Hungarians = 264
- Croats = 210
- Yugoslavs = 69
- Roma = 32
- others.
- 1961: 2,607
- 1971: 2,644
- 1981: 2,425
- 1991: 2,266
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