Čelarevo

Čelarevo Челарево Čib
Old house in Čelarevo
Čelarevo
Coordinates: 45°16′N 19°32′E / 45.267°N 19.533°E / 45.267; 19.533
Country	Serbia
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Čelarevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Челарево) is a village located in the Bačka Palanka municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbers 5,423 people (2002 census).

Prior to 1946, the village was known as Čib, but was renamed Čelarevo in honour of Partisan commander and National Hero of Yugoslavia Zdravko Čelar (1917-1942).

Demographics

Ethnic groups (2002 census):

• Serbs = 4,396
• Slovaks = 462
• Hungarians = 138
• Yugoslavs = 114
• Croats = 62
• Montenegrins = 22
• Germans = 15
• Ukrainians = 10
• others.

Historical population

• 1961: 3,717
• 1971: 4,073
• 1981: 4,817
• 1991: 5,011

Gallery

• 
  Map of the Bačka Palanka municipality, showing the location of Čelarevo
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  The Catholic Church
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  The "Lav" brewery in Čelarevo

See also

• FK Bačka Bačka Palanka
• Lav pivo
• Carlsberg Srbija
• FK ČSK Pivara
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

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

Coordinates: 45°16′N 19°32′E / 45.267°N 19.533°E / 45.267; 19.533

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