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Kovin (Ковин, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 11,623, while the municipality has 28,141 inhabitants (2022 census).
The earliest mention of the settlement was in 1071 as Keuee. Kovin is mentioned in the 12th century as a seat of the county, which included most of the western Banat. Since the 14th century, the city has had a large Serbs population that escaped there from Serbia under threat by the Ottoman Turks. The Serbian despot Lazar Branković took control over the city in 1457, but in the next year it came again under control of the Kingdom of Hungary.
In the 16th century, the city was included in the Ottoman Empire and became a part of the Ottoman Province of Temeşvar. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), Kovin was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1716, it became part of the Habsburg monarchy and belonged to the Habsburg Banat of Temeswar until 1751 when it became part of the Habsburg Military Frontier (Banat Krajina).
In 1848/1849, Kovin was part of the Serbian Voivodship, but in 1849 it was again placed under administration of the Military Frontier. With the abolishment of the Military Frontier in 1873, Kovin was incorporated into Temes County within the Kingdom of Hungary. According to the 1910 census, Kovin District had a population of 35,482, of whom 21,795 spoke Serbian language, 6,587 German language, 5,705 Romanian, and 5,355 Hungarian. “Temes County”, talmamedia.com.
This town had a significant role in the outbreak of World War I.Manfried, Rauchensteiner. The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918, p. 27 (Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2014). In July 1914, a purported military skirmish here was a proximate cause of the declaration of war against Serbia by Franz Joseph I of Austria, but the report of such skirmish was apparently false, or greatly exaggerated.
In 1918, Kovin became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). Between 1918 and 1922, it was part of Banat county; between 1922 and 1929 part of the Podunavska oblast; and between 1929 and 1941 part of the Danube Banovina. Between 1941 and 1944, Kovin was under Axis Powers occupation and was part of the autonomous Banat region within German-Serbia. The town was heavily bombed by the Allies in 1944. Serbs were not specially chosen as targets , Danas In 1945, it became part of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina within the Socialist Republic of Serbia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1992, Kovin became part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was in 2003 transformed into the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. Since 2006, the town is part of an independent Serbia.
There is also this unofficial settlement in municipality:
Settlements with a Serb ethnic majority are: Kovin, Bavanište, Gaj, Deliblato, Dubovac, Malo Bavanište, Mramorak, and Pločica. Skorenovac has a Hungarian ethnic majority. Šumarak is an ethnically mixed settlement with a relative Hungarian majority.
| 1991 | 13,669 | 76.19% | 6.78% | 3.47% | 1.40% | 1.67% | 6.81% | 0.76% | 2.21% |
| 2002 | 14,250 | 80.79% | 5.51% | 2.93% | 2.00% | 0.92% | 1.26% | 0.50% | 6.09% |
| 2011 | 13,515 | 79.22% | 5.18% | 2.60% | 2.40% | 0.50% | 0.43% | 0.50% | 9.17% |
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