Bočar

Bočar Бочар (Serbian) Bocsár (Hungarian)
Village (Selo)
Orthodox Church of the Holy Archangel Gabriel
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Coordinates: 45°46′10″N20°16′34″E / 45.76944°N 20.27611°E / 45.76944; 20.27611
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Municipalities	Novi Bečej
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Bočar	1,895
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	23274
Area code	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

The Saint Catharina of Alexandria Virgin and Martyr Catholic Church

Bočar (Serbian Cyrillic : Бочар) is a village located in the Novi Bečej municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (80.26%) with a present Hungarian minority (11.34%) and its population numbering 1,895 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Bočar (Бочар), in Hungarian as Bocsár, and in German as Botschar.

Historical population

• 1961: 2,620
• 1971: 2,328
• 1981: 2,095
• 1991: 2,007
• 2002: 1,895

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.