Horgoš

Main street in Horgoš

Horgoš ( Serbian Cyrillic Хоргош, Hungarian Horgos ) is a village of Opština Kanjiža in Okrug Severni Banat in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The population is 6,325 ( 2002). 83.8 % of the inhabitants are Hungarians. The place is known for its pepper - paprika Horgoška. Near the village is the most important border crossing between Serbia and Hungary.

History

The place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary to the historic Backa. Administratively, it was several centuries of county Csongrád. With the incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, he was reassigned to the Backa, while administratively part of the North Banat today.

Place name

The origin of the name Horgoš is Hungarian and has possibly point to the Mongolian word Horgos, which means pasture means.

Population

Sons and daughters of the village

  • Aleksandar Tišma (1924-2003), writer
  • László Huzsvár ( born 1931 ), Bishop of Zrenjanin
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