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Kikinda (Serbian Cyrillic: Кикинда, ) is a town and a municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the North Banat District. The town has 38,065 inhabitants, while the municipality has 59,453 inhabitants. The modern city was founded in the 18th century. From 1774 to 1874 Kikinda was the seat of the District of Velika Kikinda, the autonomous administrative unit of Habsburg Monarchy. In 1893 Kikinda was granted the status of a town. The town became part of the Kingdom of Serbia (and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) in 1918. Kikinda used to be a very strong economic and industrial centre of Serbia and Yugoslavia up until the 1990s. Currently, the industry of Kikinda is in the middle of the transitional economic process. In 1996, the well preserved archeological remnants of a half a million-year-old mammoth were excavated on the outer edge of the town area.〔 The mammoth called "Kika" has become one of the symbols of the town. Today it is exhibited in the National Museum of Kikinda. Other attractions of the city are the Suvača – a unique horse-powered dry mill, the annual Pumpkin Days〔 and the International Symposium of Sculpture "Terra".〔(The "TERRA" Centre for fine and applied arts )〕 The winter roosts of long-eared owl, with a large number of individuals, are easily accessible as they are situated in town parks and therefore they attract birdwatchers both from this country and abroad. ==Name== In Serbian, the city is known as ''Kikinda'' (Кикинда), in Hungarian as ''Nagykikinda'', in German as ''Gross Kikinda'' or ''Großkikinda'', in Latin as ''Magna Kikinda'', in Romanian as ''Chichinda Mare'', in Slovak as ''Kikinda'', in Rusyn as Кикинда, and in Croatian as ''Kikinda''. Until 1947 it was known in Serbian as ''Velika Kikinda'' (Велика Кикинда). The name of Kikinda is first found recorded at the beginning of the 15th century as ''Kokenyd'', and most probably denoted, together with the name ''Ecehida'', a number of small settlements, i.e. estates, firstly belonging to Hungarian and later to Serb local rulers. The name of the town first appears on a map of 1718 as ''Gross Kikinda'', indicating an uninhabited area or a wasteland and not a settlement. The adjective ''Gross'', ''Nagy'' or ''Velika'' (Great) in German, Hungarian and Serbian versions respectively, was in official use as the name of the town until the end of 1947.〔Kikinda Online: (Istorija>NAZIV ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kikinda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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