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Dužijanca is a traditional harvest celebration rooted in the Bunjevac Croat community of Subotica and its surrounding rural areas. The manifestation combines religious rituals, civic ceremonies, folklore performances, and public processions that symbolically mark the end of the agricultural year. Central elements include the weaving of harvest wreaths, thanksgiving masses, traditional costumes, and collective blessings, through which agricultural labor is transformed into a shared cultural narrative. Dužijanca plays a crucial role in preserving intangible cultural heritage, transmitting agrarian knowledge, religious symbolism, and community values across generations. In the contemporary context, it also functions as a public cultural event that affirms minority visibility and intercultural dialogue within Vojvodina’s multicultural social landscape, linking rural tradition with urban public life.