Mali Žam
village in Vršac municipality, Serbia
Mali Žam (Serbian Cyrillic: Мали Жам; Romanian: Jamu Mic; Hungarian: Kiszsám) is a village located in the administrative area of the City of Vršac, South Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 522 people (2022 census).
Name
The name in Serbian means "Small Žam/Jam". Across the border into Romania, the first village is called Jamu Mare (Great Jam/Žam).
Demographics
Historical population
1961: 880
1971: 698
1981: 565
1991: 499
2002: 379
2011: 275
2022: 202
Ethnic groups
According to data from the 2022 census, ethnic groups in the village include:
94 (46.5%) Romanians
61 (30.2%) Serbs
Others/Undeclared/Unknown
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
“Mali Žam” enters the record as village in Vršac municipality, Serbia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mali, village and Vršac can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Mali Žam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mali, village and Vršac provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1091309. Authority coordinates are 45.211, 21.339. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 1961, 1971 and 1981.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Mali Žam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.