Jabuka

Name of the city

In Serb, Jabuka means " the pomme". The Hungarian and German names of the city have the same significance. In Hungarian, the cheap one was known under the name of Torontal Almas ( Almas means " the pomme") and in German under the name of Apfeldorf (" the village of the pomme").

History

At the end of the 16th century, the south-west of the Banat located close to the the Danube was covered with marshes and forests. Apart from Pančevo and of Kovin, there did not exist other localities.

The village of Jabuka was rested by Serb fishermen at the end of the XVIIe century. In first half of the XVIIIe century, the village was made up only of one about fifteen hearths. After the conclusion of the peace treaty with the Othoman in 1726, the count Florimund von Mercy, an aristocrat of Lorraine origin managed the military Frontière. It ordered to the inhabitants of Jabuka to join the battalion (Grenzbezirkshauptmannschaft) Opovo - Pančevo. In 1733, a census counted 19 Slaves in the village.

For better controlling the Border, the Count Engelshofer called reinforcements of Germany to populate the localities of Jabuka, Glogonj, Sefkerin and Opovo. Germanic populations started to settle in the area starting from 1764, as well as Hungarian starting from 1766. This same year, of Slavic left Jabuka to settle with Crepaja and Dolovo. The old village of Jabuka was destroyed towards 1770.

Of 1772 with 1774, a new locality was founded with 11km in the north of Pančevo, on Right Bank of the Tamiš, close to the site of the old village. In 1774, it counted 88 families and of the Rumanian started to settle there. In 1789, the many Serb ones left Jabuka to settle with Sefkerin.

In 1921, Jabuka counted: 3265 inhabitants, of which: 2918 German, 348 Rumanian, 73 Hungarian, 20 Serb and Croatian, 2 Slovenien, 2 Russian and 1 English.

During the Second world war, the city was occupied by the forces of the Axe. The inhabitants who were not Germanic origin were sent to the forced labors. During the war, the Nazis killed close to: 20000 people with Stratište, near the city. They, for the majority, had summer brought of the Concentration camp of Sajmište close to Belgrade.

After the defeat of the powers of the Axis, in 1944, part of the population of German origin left the city. Those which remained there, with the number of: 2109, were sent to the prison camp of Knićanin where, for the majority, they found death.

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