Stari Slankamen
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Stari Slankamen (Стари Сланкамен), also known as Slankamen (Сланкамен), is a village located in the Inđija municipality, in the Srem District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village is 674 people, of whom 485 are ethnic Serbs (2002 census).
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[edit] Name
Its name means "Old Slankamen", while the name of the neighbouring village, Novi Slankamen, means "New Slankamen". The name "Slankamen" itself means "the salty stone" in Serbian.
[edit] History
In the Iron Age, the area was inhabited by Celtic Scordisci. In the first century BC, the region was conquered by Romans and Roman settlement known as Acumincum existed at this location.
Slavs settled in this area in the 6th century. Old Slavic graves dating from the 6th and 7th century are founded in Slankamen. During the Middle Ages, Slankamen was a fortified city. Arsenije I Bogdanović from Srem, the second Serb archbishop (1233-1263), after Saint Sava was born in the village Dabar near Slankamen. In the 15th century, the town was a possession of the Serbian despots Stefan Lazarević and Đurađ Branković, and in the 16th century it was a residence of Radoslav Čelnik, a duke of Srem.
In 1783, the village known as Novi Slankamen (New Slankamen) was founded near Stari Slankamen (Old Slankamen).
[edit] Historical population
- 1961: 778
- 1971: 756
- 1981: 638
- 1991: 575
[edit] Culture
The Orthodox Church dedicated to Saint Nikola was, according to the legend, founded in 1468 by Serbian despot Vuk Grgurević.
[edit] References
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
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