Telečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.
History Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.
Ethnic groups (2002 census) Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%) Serbs = 429 (20.59%) Romani = 37 (1.78%) Yugoslavs = 23 (1.10%) Croats = 13 (0.62%) others.
Historical population
1961: 2,996 1971: 2,665 1981: 2,429 1991: 2,138
See also List of places in Serbia List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
www.soinfo.org http://bacsgyulafalva.5mp.eu