Čoka

Čoka Чока Csóka
Town and municipality
The Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Location of Čoka within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°56′N 20°09′E / 45.933°N 20.150°E / 45.933; 20.150Coordinates: 45°56′N 20°09′E / 45.933°N 20.150°E / 45.933; 20.150
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	North Banat
Government
• Mayor	Predrag Mijić
Area
• Čoka	321.0 km2 (123.93 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Čoka	4,028
• Metro	11,398
Demonym(s)	Čokani, (sr)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23320
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	KI
Website	www.coka.co.rs

Čoka (Serbian Cyrillic: Чока, pronounced [t͡ʃôka]; Hungarian: Csóka, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃoːkɒ]; German: Tschoka; Slovak: Čoka) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 4,028, while Čoka municipality has 11,398 inhabitants.

The first written record about Čoka was made in 1247. It was part of a feudal tenure of which landowners were often changed. Later the settlement was abandoned due to the dense Cuman incursions at the end of the 13th century, but it was rebuilt again in the 14th century. In 1552, it was under Ottoman administration. At that time, it had a sparse population of 13 people, and at the end of the 16th century, the hamlet dwellers numbered 4 Serb families.

In the first half of the 18th century, the Ottoman administration was replaced by the Habsburg one and according to 1717 data, there were 40 Serb houses in the village of which number increased to 192 until the middle of the 18th century, and in 1787, the number of population increased to 1,191 people. In 1796, the tenure owner Lőrinc Marcibányi had Hungarians settled here that Slovaks followed then., which resulted in a rapid population growth and as early as the middle of the 19th century, the population numbered 2,739 people which increased to 4,239 until 1910. According to 1910 census, Hungarians were the dominant ethnic group in the village, while there existed a sizable ethnic Serb community as well.