title: Pločica
text: # Pločica
  
  Pločica (Serbian Cyrillic: Плочица) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (94.32%) and a population of 2,044 (2002 census).
  
  ## Name
  
  In Serbian the village is known as Pločica (Плочица), in Hungarian as Kevepallós, in German as Ploschitz or Blauschütz, and in Romanian as Plocița.
  
  ## History
  
  The area was originally settled by Serbs in the end of the 17th century and later by the German colonists in the end of the 18th century. In 1910, village had Serb majority and sizable Danube Swabian minority. Until the Second World War, 1,300 Danube Swabians lived in Pločica.
  
  ## Historical population
  
  * 1948: 2,364
  * 1953: 2,702
  * 1961: 2,371
  * 1971: 2,146
  * 1981: 2,100
  * 1991: 2,013
  
  ## Ethnic groups
  
  | Year | Total | Serbs | Yugoslavs | Hungarians | Montenegrins | Macedonians | Germans | Romanians | Other |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1991 | 2,013 | 91.85% | 2.83% | 1.29% | 1.19% | 0.89% | 0.49% | 0.49% | 0.26% |
  | 2002 | 2,044 | 94.32% | 0.44% | 2.1% | 0.29% | 0.29% | 0.29% | 0.29% | 1.98% |
  