Fun fact: Slovaks in Serbia are nearly entirely Protestants (Evangelical-Augsburg), even tho Slovakia is mostly Roman Catholic. Consequently, nearly all Protestants in Serbia are made of Slovaks, and a small number of Hungarians, Serbians and Romanians.

by Fresh-Heat7944

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  2. What’s up with the town name Janosik? Was it established by slovaks or is the story of Janosik existing there as well separately?

  3. nothing “fun” about this fact. Protestants were moving to “down lands” when there was forced re-catolization in Slovakia so they could practise their religion.

  4. If I’m not mistaken, these Slovak communities are in Serbia because they were sent there by the emperor during the Austro-Hungarian period to populate empty lands.

  6. In Srem (Sriem, Syrmia) there are plenty of Slovaks, Lug is not the only plače with significant Slovak population. Near by is also Ľuba (Šíd municipality) with relative Slovak majority. Other than those two there is a town called Stará Pazova with hughest number of Slovaks (above 5000), but they only make up around a third of the population. In Šíd municipality there are also Binguľa and Erdevík with significant Slovak population and the town Šíd itself has around 1000 Slovaks, but we make up only about 7%.

  7. Now for the real fun fact:

    Selenča is unique as it also has significant Catholic population, roughly half of the village.

    Lutherans in the village speak in your typical dialect here, central Slovak with couple of centuries of independent development. Catholics on the other hand speak with a West Slovak dialect. So you can tell from a single sentence who is what.

    Slovaks in Pivnica also speak with a western dialect, but they are mostly Lutheran.

  8. Source?
    Backa palanka – Definitely not 66% of the population are slovak. Based on the latest census it is 9%

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