Izbište


Izbište is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 1,464 according to the 2011 census.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Izbište, in Romanian as Pârneaora, in Hungarian as Izbiste, and in German as Izbischte.

The first written evidence

The oldest preserved written document in which the mentioned populated place Izbište dates from 1660, and it follows that from 1666 year. In both cases it is a hand written scrapbook of Serbian Orthodox Church priest, who keeps track of the contributions of households. Scrapbook or "Katastig", as was then called, contains a list of financial and commodity contributions, which are, by any obligation or voluntarily, are given to Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. This document is now stored in the Library of Serbian Patriarchate.

Famous residents

The post-war development of Izbište was stop by destruction of brick-field and power plant. Izbište had up to 3500 inhabitants, which many of them educated and as such, went for the Vršac, Bela Crkva, Pančevo, Belgrade and then continued their career in his work.

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