The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Yugoslav state in Vojvodina and Bačka in the context of the new communist regime’s treatment of the ...bishop of Bačka, Irinej Ćirić, from the time of the bishop’s liberation (1944) until his death (1955). Irinej was imprisoned under house arrest for 17 months shortly aft er the partisans captured Novi Sad due to his connections to the Hungarian occupation regime. Upon his release, he was attacked and beaten by a group of locals in Odžaci in 1946. This event, known as the ”Odžaci Affair”, was one of the contentious issues that burdened relations between the church and the state for a long time. The research also looks at how the Diocese of Bačka operated from 1944 to 1955, the attitudes of the clergy - who were closely monitored by the secret service and under pressure from the new authorities - and Irinej and his associates’ positions on certain political and ecclesiastical issues. It also examines at how these issues were resolved through mutual adaptation and a shift in the state’s attitude toward the church.
Traditional products have become an important part of touristic offer and a significant component on the menu of many catering establishments. Importing traditional products in their offer, catering ...establishments contribute to the development of consumers' knowledge of certain regions. From tourists' point of view, terms like authentic and traditional are synonymous to the term local, which presents an importan factor in distinguishing between traditional products and commercial ones. The subject of this paper is the usage of traditional products in catering offers of southern Bačka (Vojvodina - Serbia). The main task of this paper is to present the structure of traditional products that are used in catering facilities and their qualities ( market, production and technical charachteristics) which affect the purchase choices. The main goal of this paper is to collect data about traditional food products that are being used in the meal preparation in catering establishments in the area and which characteristics are crucial for their selection.
In this paper, we conducted an interdisciplinary analysis of the process of integration of the German minority in the historical context of the first Yugoslav state, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and ...Slovenes (1918-1929). In 1920, Swabian-German Cultural Association, Kulturbund, was founded as an important factor in preserving the German identity. Even though Kulturbund had interruptions in its activity, in 1924 and 1929, it remained the basic frame for cultural life of the German community during the period between the two wars. Officially, this organization was founded as non-political and loyal to new state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The activities of Kulturbund were focused on preservation of German heritage through establishment of cultural institutions such as libraries and bookstores and through organization of cultural events in the area of literature, film, music, and theatre. Kulturbund was most active in Vojvodina. Vojvodina is still a unique model of co-existence of different ethnic groups and cultural patterns, and the German community historically contributed to multiculturalism, multi-confessionalism and multiethnicity of this region. We based our analyses on contributions in the field of sociology on ethnicity, cultural anthropology, and history. Specifically we found theoretical model of ethnical boundaries, established by Fredrik Barth within the interactional approach to exploring ethnicity, which proved to be useful. Barth's influential model allowed us to examine the ethnicity from very important aspect-social interaction. In that way, ethnicity is interpreted as a form of social organization of cultural differences. Also, this model implies that ethnical boundaries are flexible, but also resistant, and can be preserved in situations of intensive cultural contacts between different ethnical and cultural groups. According to Barth, the factors with the most influence to the strengthening of ethnical boundaries are social changes on the international level, such as wars.
The paper deals with agricultural and food companies which operated on the
territory of Vojvodina in 2019. The study analyzed the risk of bankruptcy
measured by the Altman?s Z-score method, as well ...as the profitability and
productivity of the observed companies. The aim of the study was to use a
multiple regression model to determine the impact of profitability and
productivity on the risk of bankruptcy for agricultural and food companies
of different sizes (including micro, small, medium and large companies) as
well as to compare the results for these two sectors. The comparison of
agricultural and food sectors was made according to the size of the
companies. The obtained results indicated that profitability has a
statistically significant positive impact on the risk of bankruptcy for
micro and large agricultural companies, while for small agricultural
companies, the risk of bankruptcy is statistically significant and
positively affected by productivity. The risk of bankruptcy for medium-sized
agricultural companies is not affected by the examined indicators. In
addition, regression analysis indicated that the risk of bankruptcy for
micro and small food companies has a statistically significant positive
impact on profitability. In contrast, for medium and large food companies,
the risk of bankruptcy is not affected by the observed variables.
Fish farming in Serbia takes place in cyprinid (carp) and salmonid (trout) fish farms that together account for over 95% of the total fish produced. Cyprinids are grown in warm water fish farms, and ...cold water farms are designed for trout. The great majority (97%) of cyprinid fish farms are located in Vojvodina, Serbia?s northern province. This paper examines how the traditional carp sector was developed during the recent 20- year period in Vojvodina, paying particular attention to the comparison of the number and condition of cyprinid fish farms in that interval according to the available sources. The comparison was made by comparing maps with data on fishponds from 1999 and 2021, and according to the data from the Statistical Office of Serbia. After the analysis of many data from other authors and our study, it is evident that there is a lot of room for improving the production of cyprinid fish in Vojvodina. This is especially because we noticed decreasing trends for two major parameters: the area of fishpond water surfaces in Serbia (from 7,190 ha to 6,299 ha), and the number of ponds in Vojvodina (from 72 to 60), from 1999 to 2021, respectively. On the contrary, the amount of fish produced has increased from 2,409 t in 2002 to 4,761 t in 2021. According to government planning documents, Serbia lacks a national strategy for development of aquaculture production in general, and especially of cyprinid fish species.
Wine tourism has a great potential in the agro-industrial sector of Serbia and must be intensively developed in order to provide positive local and regional effects on the economy. The proper ...development of wine sector will have positive effects on economic flows. The positive implications will be manifested in generating of income from the sale market-oriented products, as well as, the employment of new people in this segment of the economy. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of wineries in AP Vojvodina with a focus on four municipalities: Beocin, Irig, Novi Sad and Sremski Karlovci. The subject of the paper includes the analysis of wineries business in selected municipalities from the aspect of liquidity and profitability for the period 2006-2019. The analysis results show that the observed wineries achieved average values of general and quick liquidity of 1.51, and 0.79. On the other hand, wineries recorded average return on assets of 0.03% and average return on equity of 0.73% in the observed period. Analyzing by the municipalities, it can conclude that wineries in Irig and Novi Sad were profitable, while this was not the case with wineries in Beočin and Sremski Karlovci for the observed period.
In the Republic of Serbia obesity is growing into a major problem. The aim of the study is to determine nutritional status in children aged 7-11 and to identify possible factors affecting obesity. A ...cross-sectional anthropological survey was carried out in primary schools in rural and urban places of North Bačka region in Vojvodina (North part of the Republic of Serbia). The investigation was performed between 2017-2020 and included 1057 boys and 1085 girls aged 6.50-11.49 years. The body mass index (BMI kg/ m2 ) was calculated and the assessment of nutritional condition was based on IOTF. Using logistic regression we tested interactions of obesity with socioeconomic and demographic factors. Underweight is present in 5.53% of children (3.78% in boys and 7.28% in girls). Overweight prevalence was detected in 18% of subjects (19.02% in boys and 17.69% in girls) and obesity prevalence in 9.73% of subjects (11.54% in boys and 7.93% in girls). A significant relationship between certain sociodemographic parameters and BMI values and the occurrence of obesity in both sexes was found. The results indicate that exceed weight is present in 27.73% of subjects and represent a public health issue in younger shool-aged children of this region in Vojvodina.
This paper explores how parents in intermarriages choose between the majority language (Serbian) and the minority language (Hungarian) as their children’s instruction medium in Vojvodina, the ...northern province of Serbia. Adopting language ideologies as a theoretical framework, the study sheds light on (systems of) cultural ideas concerning social and linguistic relations, encompassing family and societal contexts. Qualitative research involving interviews was conducted with spouses/partners of individuals from the Hungarian national minority who are in a marriage/partnership with members of the majority community in Vojvodina. The analysis reveals that the choice of education in the majority language is influenced by both objective factors (such as the absence of minority language schooling in the parents’ locality) and subjective considerations, which are connected to adopting various language ideologies supported by gender differences. The study highlights the crucial societal function of intermarriage, as family decisions significantly shape the identity and ethnic affiliation of children born into these unions. The choice of the language of instruction for their education plays a significant role in this process, with opting for the majority language accelerating acculturation and assimilation compared to choosing the minority language and maintaining the minority community.
Since the French Revolution in 1789, the nobility has ceased to be the ruling class in society. Since then, nobles began to use only certain privileges: the use of a noble title, the use of a coat of ...arms, an epithet, the right to join certain knightly orders and other rights. In the area of Croatia, Slavonia and Vojvodina, nobility could be acquired in various ways: royal donation, coat of arms, perfection, adoption and indigence. Among those who received nobility were various professions: accountants, judges, veterinarians, doctors, pharmacists, merchants, officers and other professions. It is little known that some postmen also received nobility for certain services they rendered to the state. These four families, which we describe in this paper, were among the postmen. These are the families: Haraminčić, Andrejević, Oršić and Zitvaj. For each family, according to international methodology, we provide the time when they received the nobility, who received the nobility, the occupation of the recipient of the nobility and brief biographical information. We also bring a picture of the coat of arms for each family.
The aim of this study was to examine whether and to what extent wild boars, Sus scrofa, from Vojvodina, Serbia, exhibited pig-typical gene pool characteristics. We used 16 microsatellite markers that ...have already been proven to distinguish between wild boars from eastern Austria and pigs. We screened genotypes of 21 wild boars from Vojvodina, 20 Mangulica (Serbian Managaliza) and 4 Hungarian Mangaliza as well as 48 commercial slaughter pig (CSP) samples. The wild boars exhibited relatively high genetic diversity, but no significant spatial structuring across Vojvodina. Our analyses of factorial correspondence, Bayesian assignment, as well as genetic structure and admixture demonstrated a clear distinction between wild boars, Mangulica, Hungarian Mangaliza, and CSPs. The latter were characterized by admixture of variable portions of six genetic clusters, while wild boars, Mangulica, and Hungarian Mangaliza were characterized largely by single genetic clusters, respectively; that finding was in strong contrast to earlier results showing presence of several genetic clusters in Austrian wild boars but only one cluster in CSPs. Two (9.5%) of the wild boar samples were massively introgressed by CSPs (or represented pig samples, possibly due to sample confusion). All wild boars harbored at least very small portions of pig-typical gene pool characteristics, supposedly representing signals of historical introgressions or incomplete gene pool differentiation during domestication. Mangulica-typical signals were also found in the wild boars, but at a significantly lower level than CSP-signals. A more comprehensive data set may reveal possible hot spots of introgression by Mangulica or CSPs in wild boars from Vojvodina, particularly when accompanied by other molecular markers, such as mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences or SNPs.
