Reference Type:  Journal Article
Author: Bugarski, Stefan
Year: 2006
Title: Onomastika sela srpskog Semartona
Translated Title: [Onomastica satului Sânmartinu sârbesc — Onomastics of the Village Serbian Sanmartinu / Szerbszentmárton neve]
Journal: Temišvarski zbornik
Volume: 4/2006
Pages: 117-143
Language: Serbian
Keywords: Serbian, ethnology, linguistics
Abstract: (ENG) The written data about the village itself go back to the 14th century. The population could be systematically observed only from 1779, when the birth, marriage and death registers were introduced. The first list of village households dates from 1825. It contains some foreign family names, but the Serbian ones make more than 90%. Similar situation continued after World War II, when the local population rushed to the cities, and mainly Romanians came to settle in the village. In 1992, the Serbs still had some majority (63,20%), but in the 2002 census they became the minority (45,92%).
Comparison of the family names from 1995 with the family names from 1825 unambiguously indicates that 77,55% of the core village family names were constant and offspring-producing during the last two centuries, i. e. that the core basic Serbian population includes mostly the descendants of those who established the village in the present location around 1800. The paper is supplemented with the tables containing the complete list of names, family names and nicknames in the Serbian households as of December 31, 1995
URL: http://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/stariSajt/casopisi/temisvarski_zbornik_4.pdf