Kruščić


Kruščić is a village in the Kula municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia.
The population of the village is ethnically mixed and numbers 1,468 people.

Name

Before the Second World War, the village was called Veprovac.
After the war, during colonization, the village was inhabited by colonists, mostly from Kolašin and its surroundings. In 1950, the name of the village was changed to Kruščić, after the national hero from World War II Vukman Kruščić, who was caught and killed on 20 January 1942, along with another 30 or so partisans, by the chetniks of Pavle Đurišić.
In Hungarian, the village is known as "Veprőd", in Ukrainian and Pannonian Rusyn as "Крущич", and in German as "Weprovatz".

Demographics

Historical population

  • 1787: 1,731
  • 1910: 3,163
  • 1931: 3,158
  • 1961: 3,281
  • 1971: 2,927
  • 1981: 2,658
  • 1991: 2,477
  • 2002: 2,353
  • 2022: 1,468

Ethnic groups

According to data from the 2022 census, the ethnic groups included are: