Pećinci


Pećinci is a town and municipality located in the Srem District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,571, while Pećinci municipality has 19,675 inhabitants.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Pećinci, in Croatian as Pećinci, in Hungarian as Pecsince, in German as Petschinzi, in Slovak as Pečinci, and in Rusyn as Печинци. Its name derived from the Serbian word "peć/пећ", or "petlja/петља". The name of the town in Serbian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as "Pećinci are" instead of "Pećinci is". A hypothetical singular version of the name would be Pećinac.

History

The village was first time recorded by the sources in 1416. After that time, there were no other records about this settlement until 1702. The village was under Ottoman administration until the Treaty of Passarowitz, when it passed to Habsburg Monarchy. During Habsburg administration, it was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier. From 1848 to 1849, the village was part of Serbian Vojvodina, but was again included into Military Frontier in 1849. After abolishment of the frontier, it was included into Syrmia County of Croatia-Slavonia, which was an autonomous kingdom within the Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary. According to the 1910 census, the village had a Serb ethnic majority.
In 1918, the village first became part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, then part of the Kingdom of Serbia, and finally part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. From 1918 to 1922, the village was part of the Syrmia County, from 1922 to 1929 part of the Syrmia oblast, and from 1929 to 1941 part of the Danube Banovina. From 1941 to 1944, the village was occupied by the Axis Powers and was attached to Pavelić's Independent State of Croatia. Territory of present-day Pećinci municipality was an important center of partisan resistance movement and a partisan liberated territory was formed in this area during the war.
After the war, the village became part of Vojvodina, an autonomous province of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. Until 1960, villages of present-day Pećinci municipality were part of the municipalities of Ruma, Stara Pazova and Zemun. A separate municipality of Pećinci was formed in 1960 and the village of Pećinci was chosen to be the municipal center because of its favorable traffic position.

Inhabited places

Aside from the village of Pećinci, municipality includes the following villages:
According to the 2011 census results, the municipality of Šid has 19,720 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority. The ethnic composition of the municipality:
Ethnic groupPopulation
Serbs17,965
Romani1,008
Slovaks79
Croats42
Macedonians33
Montenegrins22
Yugoslavs22
Hungarians21
Muslims11
Russians11
Bosniaks11
Others495
Total19,720

Economy

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity :
ActivityTotal
Agriculture, forestry and fishing201
Mining and quarrying4
Manufacturing3,380
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply11
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities51
Construction119
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles1,934
Transportation and storage400
Accommodation and food services144
Information and communication107
Financial and insurance activities13
Real estate activities4
Professional, scientific and technical activities118
Administrative and support service activities84
Public administration and defense; compulsory social security162
Education288
Human health and social work activities207
Arts, entertainment and recreation32
Other service activities52
Individual agricultural workers393
Total7,706