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Copyright: David Lazic (Natasa-David)
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| Genre: Landscapes |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-09-03 |
| Categories: Trees |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-10-09 5:33 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
I made this photo one weekend in September when crossing Vojvodina region with my wife. This is the photo of hills in Becej region. Endless hills were so amazingly filled with all kinds of color tints, from yellow variations to green.
Bečej (Serbian: Бечеј or Bečej, Hungarian: Óbecse, Rusin: Бечей, Croatian: Bečej, German: Altbetsche, Romanian: Becei) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 25,703, while Bečej municipality has 40,877 inhabitants.
Bečej was mentioned first during the Hungarian Kingdom in 1091 and later in 1238, in which is mentioned under Hungarian name Becse. In the 15th century (from 1419 to 1441) it was a possession of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. In the [17th century] the settlement was populated by new colonists who ran away from the Turkish conquest, mainly by ethnic Serbs from the South. Between 1702 and 1751, the town belonged to the Tisa-Mureş section of the Habsburg Military Frontier. After the abolishment of this part of the Frontier in 1751, many Serbs that lived in the town emigrated to Russia (notably to New Serbia and Slavo-Serbia). To prevent this emigration, the Habsburg authorities formed autonomous District of Potisje with seat in Bečej. District of Potisje existed between 1751 and 1848. The three privilegies were given to the district in 1759, 1774, and 1800. First privilege of the District defined its autonomous status, while the second one allowed ethnic Hungarians to settle in the district. In the following period many Hungarians settled in Bečej and they replaced Serbs as a dominant nation in the town. According to the 1910 census, the population of Bečej municipality numbered 54,275 people, of whom 30,465 spoke Hungarian and 22,821 Serbian.
Since 1918, Bečej was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states. During the Hungarian Axis occupation, in 1942 raid, 215 inhabitants of the town were murdered, of whom 111 were men, 72 women, 13 children, and 19 old people. By nationality, victims included 110 Jews, 102 Serbs, and 1 Hungarian. In 1944 October 9. raid, about 500 inhabitants (mainly Hungarians, and Germans) of the town were murdered by Yugoslavian partisans. They also demolished the synagogue after the war. The town also had small ethnic German population, which was relocated from the area after World War II, as a consequence of the war events, and of a Serbian retribution. |
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