Filić


Filić is a village located in the Novi Kneževac municipality, in the North Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority with a significant Hungarian minority. It has a population of 161 people.

Name

In Serbian the settlement is known as Filić and in Hungarian as Firigyháza. Former name for the village used in Serbian was Firiđhaza or Firiđhaz, and in some Serbian sources name of the village is also written as Firić. Filić is also an Serbo-Croatian name for the Italian town of San Felice del Molise.

Historical population