Čurug

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Map of the Žabalj municipality and Šajkaška region, showing the location of Čurug

Windmill without blades

Park in the center of the village. The razed Saint Louis the King Catholic Church stood here until 1948

Čurug (Чуруг) is a village in the municipality of Žabalj, 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 8,882 people (2002 census).

1 Name
2 Geography
3 History
4 Historical population
5 Famous residents
6 Family names of the villagers
7 References
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Чуруг or Čurug, in Croatian as Čurug, and in Hungarian as Csurog.

[edit] Geography

The village of Čurug is situated in the wide lowlands of the south-eastern part of the Bačka region, in the place where the river Tisa creates it's greatest meander down it's flow.

It is bordered by the settlements of Bačko Gradište (to the north), Kumane and Novi Bečej (northeast), Taraš (east), Gospođinci (south), Temerin (southwest), Nadalj (northwest), and Žabalj (south-southeast).

The fact of it being settled in one of the highest parts of planes (82m sea-level) is one of the main reasons the village always managed to avoid floods, and for being constantly populated during it’s long history.

[edit] History

It is one of the oldest Vojvodinian settlements, mentioned under the same name as far as 1238.

Several archaeological sites are located around the village, mainly from time of Roman Empire and early Middle Ages. The archaeologists have found here traces of Slavic settlement from the 9th-10th century, [1] as well as the traces of the Serb settlement from the 15th century. [2]

During the Hungarian Axis occupation, in 1942 raid, 893 inhabitants of the village were murdered, of whom 554 were men, 153 women, 82 children, and 104 old people. By nationality, victims included 842 Serbs, 44 Jews, and 7 Roma.

[edit] Historical population

1961: 9,469
1971: 9,336
1981: 9,231
1991: 8,987

[edit] Famous residents

Petar Konjović (1883-1970), a Serbian composer. He was born in Čurug.

[edit] Family names of the villagers

A family names in the village include: Aničić, Babić, Bečejac, Blizanac, Bogojević, Božić, Bubnjević, Bundalo, Crni, Čupić, Ćesarov, Ćurčin, Danilović, Davidov, Davidovac, Delić, Dolovac, Dragaš, Dragin, Dražić, Đukić, Đuragin, Erdevik, Gatarić, Gvozdenac, Injac, Ivanov, Ivkov, Jakovljević, Jevrosimov, Jovanov, Jovanović, Jovin, Kežić, Kizić, Kremenović, Lazendić, Lazić, Lončarski, Lukić, Maksimović, Mandić, Milanović, Miletić, Miličević, Milić, Milin, Milinkov, Nikolić, Ninkov, Pankov, Pavić, Pejić, Perić, Popov, Popović, Radanović, Radišić, Radmilo, Radnov, Rajkov, Ranisavljev, Rosić, Savičić, Savić, Simičić, Sladojević, Slavnić, Srećkov, Stančević, Stanimirov, Stanivuk, Stojanović, Suvačarov, Špirić, Tapavica, Tucakov, Tulenčić, Vasin, Vidović, Vranješ, Vujkov, Vuleta, Zec, Živković, etc.