Jabuka (Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Јабука; in Hungarian: Torontálalmás) is a village located on the shores of Tamiš River in the municipality of Pančevo, South Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia.
According to an unconfirmed legend, Jabuka was founded by Slavic fishermen who settled near an apple tree on the left bank of the Timiș River .
After World War I was that area part of provisional Torontalsko-tamiške županja (Treaty of Trianon), in 1922 of Belgrade oblast and since 1929 of Danubian Banovina in Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
According to legend, first published in print in 1912, Jabuka was founded in the late 17th and early 18th century by Serbian fishermen who settled near an apple tree on the left bank of the Timiș River.
After the peace treaty with the Ottomans in 1726, Claudius Florimund Graf von Mercy, a man with Lorraine origin, took control of the administration of the Military Frontier.
[7] In 1921, population of village numbered 3,265 inhabitants, including 2,819 Germans, 348 Romanians, 73 Hungarians, 20 Serbs or Croats, 2 Slovenes, 2 Russians and 1 Englishman.
[8][9] During the World War II Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, from 1941 to 1944, the village was part of the German-administered Banat region, that had special status within Serbia.
In 1941, on a location named Stratište near the village, German forces killed around 600 Jews and Roma in three separate executions.
In the time period after World War II the village was settled with families from Macedonia, many of them originating from Kriva Palanka Municipality.
At the beginning of the 19th century, cotton was planted on a trial basis in the northern Jabuka area but it was stopped because of long-term profitability reasons.
There is an impression of the old village and the plant nursery (German Obstgarten Plantage) which is recorded on the map of the Franciscan land survey from the early 19th century at the National Archives of Austria.
The Church was built from 1773 to 1774 in neoclassical stile and renovated gradually and partially from 1829 to 1833, and its deed, dated 14 November 1833, was sealed in a niche behind altar during consecration ceremony, and original deed of foundation stone laid, dated 4 July, was situated on the ground in front of altar.