Grebenac

Grebenac (Serbian Cyrillic: Гребенац, Romanian: Grebenaț) is a village located in the Bela Crkva municipality, South Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 599 people (2022 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Grebenac (Гребенац), in Romanian as Grebenaț, in Hungarian as Gerebenc, and in German as Grebenatz.

History

In 1970s some 490 residents of Grebenac went abroad as gastarbeiters, mostly to Salzburg where there was some 300 of them.

Demographics

Historical population

• 1961: 2,129
• 1971: 2,040
• 1981: 1,893
• 1991: 1,608
• 2002: 1,017
• 2022: 599

Ethnic groups

According to data from the 2022 census, ethnic groups in the village include:

• 425 (70.9%) Romanians
• 109 (18.2%) Serbs
• Others/Undeclared/Unknown

Notable people

• Vasko Popa, poet

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

• Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of Grebenac