title: Brdarica
text: # Brdarica
  
  Brdarica (Serbian Cyrillic: Брдарица) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Koceljeva municipality, in the Mačva District of Central Serbia. The village had a Serb ethnic majority and 1,519 inhabitants in 2002. There is a large Romani minority in the village numbering 488 persons or about one third of the population.
  
  ## Historical population
  
  * 1948: 1,603
  * 1953: 1,710
  * 1961: 1,753
  * 1971: 1,675
  * 1981: 1,690
  * 1991: 1,618
  * 2002: 1,519
  * 2011: 1,180
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Atanasije Jevtić (1938–2021), Serbian Orthodox bishop and theologian
  