Šajkaš (; ) is a village located in the Titel municipality, South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of the 2022 census, it has a population of 4,004 inhabitants.
Name In Serbo-Croatian the village is known as Šajkaš (Шајкаш), in Hungarian as Sajkásszentiván, and in German as Schatzdorf or Schajkasch-Sentiwan.
History The Šajkaška district was the scene of a notorious massacre during the occupation of Bačka by the Hungarian army in January 1942, which cost almost 900 lives. The German minority left the village in 1944.
Demographics
As of the 2011 census, the village of Šajkaš has a population of 4,374 inhabitants.
See also List of places in Serbia List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References Slobodan Ćurčić: Broj stanovnika Vojvodine (Novi Sad, 1996).
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