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Orešac (Cyrillic: Орешац, Romanian: Oreşaţ ) is a village in Serbia. Orešac is located in the municipality of Vršac, in the district of southern Banat (Serbian: Yuzhno Banatski Okrug ), in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.

Geography and population

Orešac located in the southeast of the Pannonian Plain, 73 m above sea level. The village is located around 10 km from the Serbian-Romanian border and is inhabited each half with Romanians and Serbs, thus it is ethnically mixed. In addition, 41 Roma, 8 Hungary and each one Croat and one Slavic Macedonians in the village life. In 2002 lived in Orešac 420 inhabitants, while in 1991 there were still 570 residents. The majority of the population is Christian Orthodox. The village consists of 136 households.

Village Name

Throughout history, the village had many names. The first name Orišija, dates back to 1462, followed Orašič ( 1690), Oric (1713 ), the Hungarian name Homokdiód (1911 ), and finally the current Serbian name Orešac, in 1919. Romanian name is Oreşaţ. In the Hungarian Orešac is still known Homokdiód.

History

In Orešac, on the hill Židovar, during excavations found objects were found which prove that the place was inhabited in the Bronze Age. The finds from the excavation site belong to Vatin culture that settled in the area during the Bronze Age. Main habitat of Vatin culture is that, not village Vatin ( Vršac ) too far away from Orešac. 1462 the village was first mentioned under the name Orišija. First settlers were Serbian Orthodox Serbs. 1690 bears the name of the village Orašič. As of 1713, the place is known as Oric, at that time there were 13 households in the village. The place is populated by Serbs to 1749. From 1749 also Romanian Orthodox Romanians to settle, the number of households increases to 46 at. 1782 had 536 Orthodox inhabitants of the village. 1871, the present-day Romanian Orthodox church is built, which was then built and shared by the Romanians and Serbs. 1910, the property of the church between the Serbs and Romanians will be divided. The church now belongs to the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Romanians give the Serbs their share of the construction of the church back. 1911 ORIC is renamed to the Hungarian name Homokdiód. The Serbs built in 1912 their own new Serbian Orthodox Church. In 1919, the site receives its final name Orešac and the site is now part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, by the year 1941, when the Third Reich, smashes the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During World War II Orešac was only slightly damaged, but many of the inhabitants died. In 1945, the village belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. And at the 2006 Orešac is part of the Republic of Serbia.

Population size in the past

On January 31, 1821 713 residents are out of which 350 Romanians, 319 Serbs and 44 were Roma. 1869 lived only 552 inhabitants in the village. 1881, 615 residents were back in Orešac. 1890, the population had risen to 738. Ten years later, in 1900, the population had fallen to 682. 1910, the population had risen to 766. 1948 had in Orešac 801 inhabitants. In 1953 there were 840 residents. 813 people lived in 1961 in Orešac. In 1971, the population fell to 738 residents. 1981 had 647 inhabitants of the place. 1991 lived in Orešac 570 Meneschen. 2002, there were then in Orešac only 470 inhabitants.

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