title: Čalma
text: # Čalma
  
  Čalma (Serbian Cyrillic: Чалма) is a village located in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, in the Syrmia District of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,675 people (2002 census).
  
  ## Name
  
  In Serbian, the village is known as Čalma (Чалма), in Croatian as Čalma, in Hungarian as Csalma, and in German as Tschalma.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  Ethnic groups (2002 census):
  
  * Serbs = 1,634 (97.55%)
  * Croats = 14 (0.84%)
  * others.
  
  The ethnic Germans consisted half of the village population before The Second World War.
  
  ## Historical population
  
  * 1961: 1,704
  * 1971: 1,787
  * 1981: 1,855
  * 1991: 1,776
  * 2002: 1,675
  