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Veliki Gaj (Велики Гај) is a village located in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

Geography

Veliki Gaj is located about 70 km NE of Belgrade and about 1 km SE of the Romanian border.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1355 under name Gaj. In the 17th century, the name of the village was changed to Veliki Gaj. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), the village was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs.

Since 1716, the village was part of the Habsburg Monarchy, which encouraged the settlement of German-speaking Donauschwaben (Danube Swabians) and others.

After the First World War, the village became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). During the Second World War (1941-1944), the village was under Axis occupation, and was part of the autonomous Banat region within German-occupied Serbia.

After the war, the village was part of the new socialist Yugoslavia, within the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and Socialist Republic of Serbia. Since 1992, the village was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which in 2003 was transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

See also

• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

External links

• About Veliki Gaj (in Serbian)
• “Donauschwaben in the Banat, Including the Arader Land”
• Gross Gaj
• "History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary" by Sue Clarkson.

• Banat
• Cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
• Cities, towns and villages in Serbia