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Flag of Senta - Image by Tomislav šipek, 4 September 2015
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Senta (Hungarian, Zenta) is a town and district capital in Vojvodina, close to the Hungarian border. The town has got 22,819 inhabitants, 79% of them being Hungarians (1990 census).
In 1918, the town was under Serbian occupation. From 1920 (Treaty of Trianon) to 1941, it was incorporated to Yugoslavia. In 1941-1944, the area was occupied and annexed by Hungary. The Treaty of Paris reallocated it to Yugoslavia in 1947.
István Molnár, 10 December 2000
The flag of Senta (municipal website; photo) is horizontally divided blue-yellow with the municipal coat of arms in the center.
Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2015
Flag of Zenta - Image by António Martins, 24 September 2002
According to Széll (Városaink neve, címere és lobogója [szs41]), the former flag of Senta is blue with two yellow keys crossed in saltire and pointing upwards put on an ear of wheat, from the handle hole of each key, a fish swimming through.
Széll's book shows the flags of several towns formerly held by Hungary. The book is our only source of these flags, but it is not clear as to what period these flags were used as claimed by the book. I doubt very much that they were used during the time of Austria-Hungary. It seems
very much more like they were designed in 1941 - but it is not even
clear weather the designs shown in Széll's book are just proposals
or if they were ever prescribed in any formal way and after all
whether they were used. At least for the moment, I believe that the former flag was in use at most in years 1941-1944.
Željko Heimer, 9 October 2005