The autonomous Province of Voïvodine (Serb: АутономнаПокрајинаВојводина/Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina , Hungarian: Vajdaság Autonóm Tartomány , Slovak: Autonómna pokrajina Rumanian Vojvodina , : Provincia Autonomă Voivodina , Croatian: Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina , Ruthène: АвтономнаПокраїнаВойводина ) is a septentrional province of the Serbia.

Its capital is Novi Sad and the second plus big city east Subotica. It is ethniquement varied, with more than 25 ethnicities different comprising a third from the population from the area. It does not have less than six official languages, reflecting the great cultural diversity and linguistics of the area. Voïvodine is one of two autonomous provinces of Serbia (the other being the Kosovo, with the disputed statute).

History

Vojvodina is the Serb name (which comes from voïvode , a local cheffery, a duchy) for the territory of septentrional Serbia, including/understanding the southernmost part of the plain of Pannonia. Through the history, it belonged to the Dacie, the Roman Empire, the empire of the Huns, the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgaria, the Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Austria, the Austria-Hungary, the Royaume of Serb, Croatian and Slovenien the, of the Yugoslavia, the Serbia-and-Montenegro, and finally of the Serbia.

Policy

Composition of the provincial Parliament of Voïvodine (120 members) elected on September 19th, 2004

• Democratic party (Demokratske stranke, DS): 4 seats

• Alliance of the Hungarians of Voïvodine: 11 seats
• Serb Radical party: 36 seats
• Coalition for Voïvodine: 7 seats
• Serb Socialist party: 7 seats
• Democratic party of Serbia (Demokratske stranke Srbije, DSS): 7 seats
• Political movement Capacity of Serbia: 7 seats
• Reformists of Voïvodine: 2 seats
• G17 More: 2 seats
• Subotica Coalition our city: 1 seat
• democratic Alliance of the Hungarians of Voïvodine: 1 seat
• Groups of citizens of Plandište, Inđija, Ada and Bački Petrovac: 4 seats

Nomenclature

“Vojvodina” wants to say Duché in Serbe. Its historical name was “Serb Duchy”. The Serb language employs two additional varieties of the word vojvodina . These varieties are vojvodovina and vojvodstvo , which is equivalent to the word Polish województwo (province).

Demography

(Study carried out in 2002)

national Ethnicities/of the population:

• : 1321807 Serb S (65,05%)

• : 290207 Hungarian (14,28%)
• : 56637 Slovak S (2,79%)
• : 56546 Croatian S (2,78%)
• : 55016 not declared (2,71%)
• : 49881 Yugoslav S (2,45%)
• : 35513 Montenegrin S (1,75%)
• : 30419 Rumanian S (1,50%)
• : 29057 Romanian (1,43%)
• : 19766 Bunjevci (0,97%)
• : 15626 Ruthènes (0,77%)
• : 11785 Macedonian S (0,58%)
• : 10154 regional affiliation (0,50%)
• : 4635 Ukrainian S (0,23%)

Native tongues of the population:

• : 1557020 Serb (76,63%)

• : 284205 Hungarian (13,99%)
• : 55065 Slovak (2,71%)
• : 29512 Rumanian (1,45%)
• : 21939 Rromani (1,08%)
• : 21053 Croatian (1,04%)
• : 4152 Macedonian
• : 2369 Albanian
• 920 Bulgarian

Religions of the population:

• : 1401475 orthodoxe Church (68,97%)

• : 388313 Catholics (Roman catholics and Churches uniates) (19,11%)
• : 72159 Protesting S (3,55%)
• : 12583 athés
• :8073 Moslem
• 329 Jewish S
• 166 Eastern Religions ( Buddhism, Hindouisme etc )
• : 4456 others
• 418 without religious affiliation
• : 42876 unknown
• : 101144 not declared

Population by sex :

• : 984942 individuals of male sex.

• : 1047050 individuals of female sex.

Population by categories of age:

• 0-14 years: 15,85% (: 165332 men: 156873 women)

• 15-64 years: 68,62% (: 693646 men: 700416 women)
• 65 years and more: 15,53% (: 125964 men: 189761 women)

(Source: Statistical office of the Republic of English Serbia)

Sources

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