# Mokrin

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Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Mokrin Мокрин (Serbian) Village (Selo) The Serbian Orthodox Church in Mokrin Mokrin Location of Mokrin within Serbia Show map of Vojvodina Mokrin Mokrin (Serbia) Show map of Serbia Mokrin Mokrin (Europe) Show map of Europe Coordinates: 45°56′05″N 20°24′16″E / 45.93472°N 20.40444°E / 45.93472; 20.40444 Country Serbia Province Vojvodina Region Banat District North Banat Municipality Kikinda Elevation 90 m (300 ft) Population (2011) • Mokrin 5,270 Time zone UTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST) Postal code 23305 Area code +381(0)230 Car plates KI

**Mokrin** ([Serbian Cyrillic](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet): Мокрин) is the largest village in the [Kikinda](/source/Kikinda) municipality, in the [North Banat District](/source/North_Banat_District) of [Serbia](/source/Serbia). It is situated in the Autonomous Province of [Vojvodina](/source/Vojvodina). The village has a [Serb](/source/Serbs_in_Vojvodina) ethnic majority (83.47%) with a present [Romani](/source/Romani_people) (6.23%) and [Hungarian](/source/Hungarians) minority (4.9%). It has a population of 5,270(2011 census) [1]

## Name

In [Serbian](/source/Serbian_language), the village is known as *Mokrin* (Мокрин), in [Hungarian](/source/Hungarian_language) as *Mokrin* (previously *Homokrév*), and in [German](/source/German_language) as *Mokrin*. The name of the village derived from Serbian word "mokro" ("wet" in English).

## History

A [Bronze Age](/source/Bronze_Age) [Moriš (Maros/Mureș) culture](https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0) necropolis of 312 graves was unearthed in Mokrin.[2] The graves of the men had large golden discs placed at the breasts. Only a small amount of the graves were found to have weapons and tools.[3]

		- Bronze Age necropolis of the [Maros culture](https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0) at Mokrin

The village was first named *Homokrév* and it was located on the banks of the river Harangoda, today referred to as [Aranka](/source/Aranka_(river)) or Zlatica. During the 13th and 14th centuries, it was under the possession of Hungarian landowners. According to an Ottoman census of tax payers from 1557 and 1558, there were 30 Serbian households in the village.

Its current name dates from 1723. In 1778, the village had a population of 1,609. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mokrin underwent a period of economic prosperity, mostly due to its strategic location on the [Szeged](/source/Szeged)-[Timișoara](/source/Timi%C8%99oara) railway, which was very important at the time. There were 1,780 households in Mokrin at that time and 9,279 citizens of which 6,233 were ethnic [Serbs](/source/Serbs), 1,063 ethnic [Germans](/source/Germans), and 838 ethnic [Hungarians](/source/Hungarians).

		- Park in Mokrin

		- The Ascension of the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Mokrin

## Features

The village is famous throughout the region for its annual competition in striking [Easter eggs](/source/Easter_eggs) on [Easter Sunday](/source/Easter_Sunday), according to the [Julian Calendar](/source/Julian_Calendar). The competition is called *Tucanijada* in [Serbian](/source/Serbian_language). One person holds an [Easter egg](/source/Easter_egg) in his or her hand, while another person hits it with his own [Easter egg](/source/Easter_egg). The egg which remains whole wins, while the cracked egg must be given to the winner.

## Famous people

- [Milan Čeleketić](/source/Milan_%C4%8Celeketi%C4%87), former major general

- [Mika Antić](/source/Mika_Anti%C4%87), poet

- [Đorđe Ivanović](/source/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Ivanovi%C4%87), football player

- [Peđa Krstin](/source/Pe%C4%91a_Krstin), tennis player, coach

- [Teodora Kostović](/source/Teodora_Kostovi%C4%87), tennis player

- [Raša Popov](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ra%C5%A1a_Popov&action=edit&redlink=1) [[sr](https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C5%A1a_Popov)], writer, poet, journalist and TV personality

- [Vasa Stajić](/source/Vasa_Staji%C4%87), philosopher and writer

- [Imre Szabó](/source/Imre_Szab%C3%B3), photojournalist

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Mokrin (Kikinda, North Banat District, Serbia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information"](https://www.citypopulation.de/php/serbia-severnibanat.php?cityid=03333). *www.citypopulation.de*. Retrieved 2019-04-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *Dragoslav Srejović*. [Kulture bakarnog i ranog bronzanog doba na tlu Srbije // Izvor: Istorija srpskog naroda I, Srpska književna zadruga](http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/srejovic/dsrejovic-eneolit.html), Beograd, 1994.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** O počecima bronzanog doba u Evropi vid. opširnije: M. Gimbutas, Bronze Age 32-47.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Mokrin](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mokrin).

- [Mokrin Virtual Village](https://mokrin.org/#!/)

- [Information about Mokrin](https://www.angelfire.com/mo2/mokrin/)

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