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Čonoplja
Summary
Čonoplja (Чонопља) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,359 people (2002 census).
In Serbian, the village is known as Čonoplja (Чонопља), in German as Tschonopel, in Croatian as Čonoplja, in Bunjevac as Čonoplja, and in Hungarian as Csonoplya.
The oldest relics found at this location are dated back to the late Stone Age. Relics from the 7th and 8th centuries were also found, but they give no exact indication as to the tribes who lived there.
The village was first mentioned in the 14th century as Conoklija, during the administration of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. During the Ottoman administration (16th-17th century), the village of Čonoplja was populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1590, the village had 28 households.
In the 17th century, ethnic Bunjevci settled in the village, while in the 18th and 19th century Germans and Hungarians settled here as well. There was a census in Bačka in 1715, but Čonoplja was not mentioned. However 31 households were mentioned for Sivac, including a certain Teša Čonopljanin, aged 50 who was born in Čonoplja and had run away from the Turks in 1685; hence his surname. In 1747, population of Čonoplja counted 5 salaši (farms) with 42 people. They were Hungarians and Dalmatians of Catholic confession (Bunjevci).
A few German families could be found as early as in 1758. Shortly thereafter, however, they left for other neighboring villages. A Paul Witsch is mentioned, interviewed in connection with having stolen a horse, but acquitted of a charge. Freiherr Anton von Cothmann, a representative of Empress Maria Theresia, visited Čonoplja in 1767 and his assessment was not very complimentary. Bad houses, untidy streets and big neglected fields, but nice vineyards existed. He decided to propose the place for settlement by Germans. The plans in Vienna were to settle Protestant or Reformed Germans there.
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