Telečka

Telečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка, Hungarian: Bácsgyulafalva) is a village in Serbia. It is in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as Telečka, or Telečka sands.

History
Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

 * Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%)
 * Serbs = 429 (20.59%)
 * Romani = 37 (1.78%)
 * Yugoslavs = 23 (1.10%)
 * Croats = 13 (0.62%)
 * others.

Historical population



 * 1961: 2,996
 * 1971: 2,665
 * 1981: 2,429
 * 1991: 2,138