Parta (; ) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (95.49%) and its population numbers 376 people (2011 census).
History
The settlement was recorded as Patrygh in 1421 and as Parta in 1713. In 1660, monks from the Peć Patriarchate visited the village and received a donation of 200 aspers. The village had 16 houses in 1713 and 33 in 1749. In 1774, Austrian official Joseph Johann von Erlach recorded Parta as part of the Vršac district and noted its military status and Vlach population.Felix Milleker, Kosta Pantić and Dušan Belča, Letopisi opština u južnom Banatu, 2005.
The village was attacked by Ottoman forces in 1739 and paid a ransom to avoid military service. An Eastern Orthodox Church was built in 1825, and a census in 1827 recorded 617 Orthodox Christians and two Catholics.
During the Revolution of 1848 in the Habsburg areas, Parta was burned by Hungarian forces on 9 November 1848 after its inhabitants fired on Hungarian troops. Its population grew from 471 in 1869 to 749 in 1910, before reaching 740 in 1921, including 732 Serbs, six Germans and two Romanians. In 1905, the village had 140 households and 706 inhabitants, with an Orthodox church, school and parish.Mata Kosovac, Srpska pravoslavna mitropolija karlovačka po podacima iz 1905. godine, Sremski Karlovci, 1910.
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