Grebenac

Grebenac (Serbian Cyrillic: Гребенац, Romanian: Grebenaț) is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (82.3%) and a population of 1,017 (2002 census).

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Village (Selo)
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Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Municipality	Bela Crkva
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Grebenac	1,017
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26347
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

It was the site of an ancient Roman fort.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Grebenac (Гребенац), in Romanian as Grebenaț, in Hungarian as Gerebenc, and in German as Grebenatz.

Historical population

Romanian presence is attested by a stone cross in the local graveyard, from 1297 and by a document in Wiena about a trial between Luca family and another local family. In 1970s some 490 residents of Grebenac went abroad as gastarbeiters, mostly to Salzburg where there was some 300 of them.^[1]

• 1961: 2,129
• 1971: 2,040
• 1981: 1,893
• 1991: 1,608

Personalities

• Vasko Popa, poet; studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna. During World War II, he fought as a partisan and was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.

See also

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