Telečka
Sign in to saveTelečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.
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- Telečka
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- Village (Selo)
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- The Saint Mary Catholic Church.
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- Serbia Vojvodina#Serbia#Europe
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- Province
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- Region
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- Bačka
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- District
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- West Bačka
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Gyula Szapáry
- Country
- Serbia
- Located in
- Sombor City
- Elevation
- +107
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Bgyfalva1.jpg
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Telečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.
==History== Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.