Sečanj

Sečanj Сечањ
Town and municipality
The new Orthodox Church
Location of Sečanj within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°22′00″N 20°46′21″E / 45.36667°N 20.77250°E / 45.36667; 20.77250Coordinates: 45°22′00″N 20°46′21″E / 45.36667°N 20.77250°E / 45.36667; 20.77250
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Government
• Mayor	Predrag Milošević (SNS)
Area
• Total	523 km2 (201.9 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Village	2,373
• Municipality	13,267
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23240
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Sečanj (Serbian Cyrillic: Сечањ) is a village and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,373, while the Sečanj municipality has 13,267 inhabitants.

"Sečanj" is a Slavic name for the first month in the calendar year. The Serbian Ekavian variant of this name was eventually replaced with the new word "Januar" (corresponding to the common months as known in Western European cultures), while the Croatian Ijekavian variant "Siječanj" remains in use in Croatia.

In Serbian, the village is known as Сечањ or Sečanj, in Hungarian as Szécsány or Torontálszécsány, in German as Setschan or Petersheim, in Croatian as Sečanj, and in Romanian as Seceani.

Serbian, Hungarian, and Romanian language are officially used by municipal authorities.

The settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Sečanj, Banatska Dubica, Boka, Jarkovac, Jaša Tomić, Krajišnik, and Sutjeska. The settlement with Hungarian ethnic majority is Busenje. Ethnically mixed settlements with relative Serb majority are: Konak, Neuzina and Šurjan.

The Sečanj municipality includes the town of Jaša Tomić and the following villages:

Old houses

Filling-station in the village

TORONTÁL-SZÉCSAN in the Kingdom of Hungary (Torontál County) in 1871