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Alternate names: Čantavir [Serb], Csantavér [Hun]. Чантавир. 45°55' N, 19°46' E, in Serbia, 15 miles W of Senta (Zenta), 13 miles SSE of Subotica (Szabadka). Jewish population: 78 (in 1931). Pinkas HaKehilot, Yugoslavia (1988), p. 284: "Cantavir". [January 2010]

The 1860 synagogue was destroyed in 1950, but the cemetery survives although its ohel was destroyed. [January 2009]