ИДЕНТИФИКАЦИЈА НОВИХ НАСЕЉА У ПРОЦЕСУ КОЛОНИЗАЦИЈЕ БАНАТА (1920–1941)
IDENTIFICATION OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN COLONIZATION PROCESS OF BANAT (1920–1941)

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the emergence of colonized communities in Banat in the period between the two world wars, which were in the function of the national and state politics of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the identification of their newly founded settlements. The colonized communities were the symbols of the newly established Yugoslav state in the territory of Banat, and their difference with relation to the encountered social, economic, ethnic and cultural surrounding was a motive for the conflict with it. The essential conflict of the colonized communities and the encountered population was the conflict over the land freed from the landowning estate framework in the process of agrarian reform. Also, due to the settling of different domiciliary groups within the new settlements, the question that arose was the creation of their new local identity. The colonized communities emphasized their “national mission” of the change in ethnic relations and the protection of the new Yugoslav-Romanian border by means of the names of the new settlements that were mostly populated by Serbian war veterans-volunteers and that symbolized the new Yugoslav state. The formation of the political municipalities in the territory of the new settlements intensified their identification, as well as the building of Orthodox temples that were build in the Serbian-Byzantine style, which negated the baroque sacral heritage considered to be the symbol of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Banat between the two world wars. The intensified public building in the new Banat settlements in the period of 1934–1936 emphasized the renewed detecting of its defenders by the Yugoslav state in the circumstances of a worsened international situation.

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