page_title: Jabuka
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Jabuka / History
caption_attribution_description: English: City Hall in Jabuka near Pančevo, Vojvodina Serbia Français&#160;: L'Hôtel de ville de Jabuka près de Pančevo, Voïvodine, Serbie
context_page_description: Jabuka is a village located in the municipality of Pančevo, South Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village numbers 6,181 people and has the largest ethnic Macedonian population in Serbia by percentage.
context_section_description: In the 1970s, scientific staff of Archaeological Institute Belgrade carried out extensive excavations on communal area. The scientists found objects and tracks of temporary settlement of Neolithic (Vinča and Starčevo cultures), Chalcolithic (Baden culture) and Iron periods.
  The communal area was part of Temeşvar Eyalet in Ottoman Empire since 1552, after the Treaty of Požarevac  part of Habsburg's Banat, since 1765 of military frontier (Austrian Empire) and then it belonged to Torontál county of Austria-Hungary. After World War I was that area  part of provisional Torontalsko-tamiške županja (Treaty of Trianon), in 1922 of Belgrade oblast and since 1929 of Danubian Banovina in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In time after World War II its belonged to Srez Pančevo of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The communal area of Jabuka was part of administrative region of Pančevo municipality from all these centuries to the present.
  The modern village of Jabuka was founded by Slavic fishermen in the end of 17th and beginning of the 18th century. ("Selo je imalo 15 porodica slovenskog porekla", their names were Stoikov, Stepan, Pavao and Damian) They might be coming from Romania or Bulgaria. In the first half of the 18th century there were about 15 houses in the village. After the peace treaty with the Ottomans in 1726, Claudius Florimund Graf von Mercy, a man with Lorraine origin, took control of the administration of the Military Frontier. He ordered the inhabitants of Jabuka to be members of the border battalion (Grenzbezirkshauptmannschaft) Opovo - Pančevo. The census from 1733 recorded 19 Slavic (i.e. Serb) families in the village. In the middle of the 18th century, there was 60 houses in the village, and during this time, its inhabitants were Serbs.
  In 1921, population of village numbered 3,265 inhabitants, including 2,819 Germans, 348 Romanians, 73 Hungarians, 20 Serbs or Croats, 2 Slovenes, 2 Russians and 1 Englishman.
  During the World War II, the village was under Axis occupation. In 1941, on a location named Stratište near the village, German forces killed around 600 Jews and Roma in three separate executions. In 1945, a monument (memorial pyramid) dedicated to these victims was built, and later, another monument with memorial house was built too.
  In 1944, one part of German population left from the region, together with defeated German army. The remaining Germans of the village were sent to local imprisonments which existed until 1948. After prison camps were dissolved, many of German population left Yugoslavia because of economic reasons.
  In the time period after World War II the village was settled with families that originated from all parts of Yugoslavia. Most of the settlers were from Macedonia, many of them originating from Kriva Palanka Municipality. In 1948, the majority of inhabitants were Macedonians (2,806 or 63.88%).
caption: Community office in Jabuka, built in 1901
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