Deveti Maj
village in Serbia
Deveti Maj (until the beginning of the 1990s, Novo Selo) is a populated place in the city municipality of Palilula in the area of the city of Niš, in the Nišava District. It is located on the alluvial terrace of South Morava and Nišava, about 6 km west of the center of Niš. According to the 2002 census, there were 4,305 inhabitants (according to the 1991 census, there were 3,689 inhabitants). According to the 2011 census, Deveti Maj has 4,795 inhabitants.
History
Prehistoric findings (Neolithic) at the site called Bubanj indicate a very old population. No mention of Novi Selo is found in Turkish sources of the older period, which is why it can be assumed that it is of a younger origin, which is indicated by its name. In the Turkish census from 1498, however, the village of Donji Bubanj is mentioned with 41 houses and 5 mills, which then mysteriously disappeared (probably at the end of the 17th or in the first half of the 18th century). According to the Turkish census of the nahija of Niš from 1516, the place was one of 111 villages of the nahija and was called Donji Bubanj, and had 40 houses, 4 widowed households, 6 single households. Research at the Bubanj and KP Dom sites (graves, building material) showed that Donji Bubanj was probably located here. Today's settlement of Deveti Maj (Novo Selo) is a separate, younger village, out of continuity with Donji Bubanj and may have become a separate, transgressive hamlet of Popovac, and perhaps some special immigrant settlement.
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