Lokve (Alibunar)

Lokve Локве Sân-Mihai, Simiai
Village
The Romanian Orthodox church The Romanian Orthodox church
Lokve Location of Lokve within Serbia
Lokve Location of Lokve within Vojvodina
Coordinates:
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	76 m (249 ft)
Population (2011)
• Lokve	2,002
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	26361
Area code(s)	+381(0)13
Car plates	PA

Lokve (Serbian Cyrillic: Локве, Romanian: Locve, Sân-Mihai or Simiai) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (90.85%) and a population numbering 2,002 people (2002 census). More than half of population of Lokve lives abroad, mainly in USA and Switzerland.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Lokve (Локве), in Romanian as Sân-Mihai or Simiai, and in Hungarian as Végszentmihály.

Historical population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1948	4,184	—
1953	4,246	+1.5%
1961	4,243	−0.1%
1971	3,826	−9.8%
1981	3,511	−8.2%
1991	2,450	−30.2%
2002	2,002	−18.3%

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Sources

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
• Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u 2002, Stanovništvo 1, Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost - podaci po naseljima, Beograd, Februar 2003.

• Na temeljima gde je prvobitno bilo smešteno naselje pronađeni su praistorijski predmeti i jedan srebrni denar iz doba kralja Domicijana (51 - 96. pre n.e.). U ataru susednog sela Janošik pronađeni su temelji kuće iz doba Rimljana i kraljevski novac. Prilikom iskopa temelja Crkve u Alibunaru pronađen je novac sa amblemom Rima i natpisom Vibius, Tribarianus, Gallus.

External links

• Official Website of Lokve