The Family
Sajan
Sajan (Serbian Cyrillic: Сајан, Hungarian: Szaján) is a
village in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat
District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous
Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Hungarian
ethnic majority(88.64%) and a population of 1,164. he
Cumans are often spoken of as Turan people, who
migrated from Central Asia and settled in this area. Their
primary settlement had been around the Sayan
Mountains. There are theories that claim this would
explain the origin of the name of today's Sajan.
Another theory claim that name Sajan is of Slavic origin,
since the Slavic village with similar name Zajan was
recorded in Vesprimiensis county in 1398. It is assumed
that name came from the Slavic name Svojan (Jovan M.
Pejin, Iz prošlosti Kikinde, Kikinda, 2000).
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