Veliko Središte


Veliko Središte is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province.

Demography

The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbered 1,269 people at the 2011 census. There is a sizable number of ethnic Hungarians, Czechs, Romanians and other minorities as well as ethnically mixed families which is not uncommon in Vojvodina.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Veliko Središte, in Hungarian as Nagyszered, in Romanian as Srediștea Mare, and in German as Groß-Sredischte.

Historical population

  • 1961: 2,120
  • 1971: 1,815
  • 1981: 1,698
  • 1991: 1,584
  • 2002: 1,340
  • 2011: 1,269