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Alternate names: Stara Moravica [Serb], Bácskossuthfalva [Hun], Alt-Morawitza [Ger], Ómoravicza, Kossuthfalva, Kosutfalva, Staro Moravice. Serbian: Стара Моравица. 45°52' N, 19°28' E, in N Serbia, 18 miles NE of Sombor, 19 miles SSW of Subotica. Jewish population: 235 (in 1880), 78 (in 1931). [January 2010]

  • Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 1236: "Stara Moravica".
  • Pinkas HaKehilot, Yugoslavia (1988), p. 236: "Stara Moravica"

The 1896 synagogue was destroyed in 1963.

Jewish Cemetery: exists [January 2009]