Strelac
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Strelac
Стрелац | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Strelac | |
| Coordinates: 42°59′05″N 22°27′45″E / 42.98472°N 22.46250°E | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Region | Southern and Eastern Serbia |
| District | Pirot |
| Municipality |  Babušnica |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 214 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1,589 | — |
| 1953 | 1,507 | −5.2% |
| 1961 | 1,367 | −9.3% |
| 1971 | 1,156 | −15.4% |
| 1981 | 844 | −27.0% |
| 1991 | 605 | −28.3% |
| 2002 | 392 | −35.2% |
| 2011 | 214 | −45.4% |
| Source: [1] | ||
Strelac (Serbian: Стрелац) is a village in the municipality of Babušnica, in southeast Serbia. Until the 1960s, Strelac was the largest settlement in the region of Lužnica, but having a constant and accelerating depopulation like most of the settlements in the region, according to the 2011 census, the village had a population of only 214.
A settlement in the area of Strelac existed in Roman times. There are remnants of the Roman cemetery, an aqueduct and a water well.[2]
According to the 1948 census, Strelac had a population of 1,589 and was the largest village in the region, and until the census of 1961 it had more population than the regional center and its own municipal seat, town of Babušnica.[1] In previous, more prosperous periods, the village had a school with a dormitory, stores, post office, community health center, agricultural cooperative, local community office but also grocery shops, watermills, sawmills, kafanas and artisan shops (furriers, tailors, stitchers, blacksmiths, farriers).[2]
