Kukujevci

Kukujevci (Serbian Cyrillic: Кукујевци) is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 1,955 inhabitants.

Kukujevci Кукујевци (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
Kukujevci
Coordinates: 45°04′N 19°20′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Syrmia
District	Srem
Municipality	Šid
Area [1]
• Total	32.70 km^2 (12.63 sq mi)
Elevation	93 m (305 ft)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	1,955
• Density	60/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	22 224

Name

The name of the village in Serbian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as "Kukujevci are" instead of "Kukujevci is". A hypothetical singular version of the name would be Kukujevac.

History

Roman Catholic Church in Kukujevci

Prior to the Yugoslav Wars, the population of the village was 89% Croat.[3] During the Yugoslav Wars and particularly as a spillover from the Croatian War of Independence local Croat community in Kukujevci was exposed to harassment and persecution by Serbian nationalists leading to community's expulsion from the village.[4] As a consequence of the war demographic structure of the village is today almost entirely different with 90% of population being ethnic Serbs, mostly Serb refugees who left after the collapse of the self-proclaimed SAO Western Slavonia or from other parts of Croatia.[5] The new Serbian population has sought to rename the village to Lazarevo.[6]

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
• Kukujevci–Erdevik railway station

References

1. "Насеља општине Шид" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
2. "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
3. 1995/06/12 22:25 GLAVOM U PESAK
4. Matić, Dragan. "President Josipovic visits Kukujevci". Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
5. Tucić, Ilija. "Kukujevci – Gde Slavonci postadoše Sremci". Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
6. Croats in Vojvodina against the renaming of previous Croatian villages Archived 2008-01-18 at the Wayback Machine