Kovilj

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Kovilj

Village

Orthodox churches in Kovilj

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 Kovilj
Coordinates: 4514N 201E
Country Serbia
District South Baka
Municipality Novi Sad
Population (2002)
Total 5,599
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Novi Sad
Petrovaradin
Budisava
Ka
 enej
Kisa
Rumenka
Veternik
Futog
Bege
Stepanovievo
Sremska
Kamenica
Bukovac
Ledinci
Stari
Ledinci
Kovilj
City of Novi Sad

Municipality of
Novi Sad
Municipality of
Petrovaradin

Kovilj (Serbian Cyrillic: ) is a village located in the Novi Sad municipality, in the South
Baka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has
a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 5,599 people (2002 census).

Contents
1 Name
2 Geography
3 History
4 Culture
5 Nature
o 5.1 Historical population
6 Famous people
7 Gallery
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Kovilj or , in Croatian as Kovilj, and in Hungarian as
Kabol.

The Serbian name of the village derived from Serbian word "kovilj", which is a name for one
sort of flower grass.

Geography
The village is divided into Gornji Kovilj (Upper Kovilj) and Donji Kovilj (Lower Kovilj), which
were two separate settlements in the past, but today are parts of one single settlement.

History
In the 13th century, a settlement named Kabul was mentioned at this location. Other names used
for the settlement in the past were Kaboli and Kobila, hence it is presumed that name of the
settlement derived from Slavic word "kobila" ("mare" in English).

Donji Kovilj was first mentioned in 1554, and Gornji Kovilj in 1702. Two villages were joined
in 1870.

The existence of the village after found traces dating back 5,500 years BC . The village has
existed during the reign of the Romans and Avars . The first written evidence of this village were
created only in the XIII century, when it was called Kabul . Kovilj at the end of XVIII century
got its name from one sort of flower grass.

Today in Kovilj still exists division into the lower(anaki) and uper(Gornji Kovilj).
Donji(lower) Kovilj developed with the monastery and existed even before the Great Migrations
and arrival of Arsenije III arnojevi 1650.

The inhabitants lived on fishing , hunting , wood cutting by marshes and military service.
Residens of Kovilj were good soldiers who kept watch at the "Koviljski anevi" (Kovilj Moat)
and prevented incursions by the Turks in Austria-Hungary. From that time remained a habit that
people from the Lower Kovilja called "anani". Upper Kovilj arises settling of Serbs from
Subotica in 1746. These Serbs were the only soldiers who belonged to the "ajkaka battalion"
as crews scurry wooden boats who fought on the Danube, Sava and Tisa preventing attacks
against the Turks. Since 1870, when construction of embankments on the Danube and
deforestation are changing and the interest of residents for jobs. Begins dealing with agriculture
and production of bricks. Kovilj in 1900 numbered about 5,200 inhabitants and had a steam mill
, a brickyard and electricity in homes.

Culture

Kovilj Monastery.
Near the village is well known Kovilj Monastery. The monastery was reconstructed in 1705-
1707, but according to the legend, it was founded by the first Serb archbishop Saint Sava in the
13th century.

There are also two Orthodox churches in the village, the Church of the Ascension of Jesus in
(uper)Gornji Kovilj , constructed in 1829 with a beautiful iconostasis which was made by monk
Rafailo Momilovi , and second Church of Thomas the Apostle built in 1846 in
Donji(lower)Kovilj.

Nature
Near Kovilj is located Special Nature Reserve Koviljsko-Petrovardinski Rit. It is a complex of
marshes and forest ecosystems (4,840 ha) with numerous biocoenoses integrated into a
functional whole.

The core values of this area are represented by the preserved and diverse indigenous orographic
and hydrographic forms of marshes (islands, backwaters, ponds, swamps); the preserved,
abundant indigenous plant communities in marshes (forests, meadows, reeds, rushes); the
diversity and abundance of fauna (172 species of birds and 46 species of fish) and particularly by
the presence of rare and endangered species.[1]

Historical population

Historical population

Year Pop. %

1961 5,448

1971 5,290 2.9%

1981 5,279 0.2%

1991 5,242 0.7%

2002 5,599 +6.8%

Famous people
Laza Kosti (18411910), a Serb literate. He was born in Kovilj.

Gallery


Stork in Arkanj

Arkanj

Kovilj-Petrovaradin Marshes

Kovilj-Petrovaradin Marshes

Kovilj nature

See also
Novi Sad
List of places in Serbia
 List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References
1.

1. http://www.vojvodinasume.rs/en/environmental-protection/kovilj-petrovaradin-marshes/

Slobodan uri, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

Milorad Gruji, Vodi kroz Novi Sad i okolinu, Novi Sad, 2004.

External links
[1] Kovilj
Manastir Kovilj - Kovilj monastery
[2] Vojvodina ume

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Cities, towns and villages in the South Baka District

Seat of the district: City of Novi Sad
Bege
Budisava
enej
Futog
Urban Ka
Municipality Kisa
of Novi Sad1 Kovilj
Rumenka
Stepanovievo
Veternik

Bukovac
Ledinci
Petrovaradin1 Sremska Kamenica
Stari Ledinci

Bako Novo Selo

Ba
Boani
 Plavna
Selena
Vajska

elarevo
Despotovo
Gajdobra
Karaorevo
Mladenovo
Netin
Baka Nova Gajdobra
Palanka Obrovac
Parage
Pivnice
Silba
Tovarievo
Vizi

Gloan
Baki Kulpin
Petrovac Magli

Bako Gradite
Bako Petrovo Selo
Beej Mileevo
Radievi

Banotor
erevi
Grabovo
Lug
Beoin
Rakovac
Susek
Svilo

Nadalj
Srbobran Turija

Sremski
Karlovci
Temerin Baki Jarak
 Sirig

Gardinovci
Lok
Moorin
Titel
ajka
Vilovo

Bako Dobro Polje

Kosani
Kucura
Vrbas Ravno Selo
Savino Selo
Zmajevo

urug
urevo
abalj
Gospoinci

(*) bold are municipalities or cities, 1 - Novi Sad`s urban municipalities, which aren't fully formed

Coordinates: 4514N 2001E

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