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==Name==
The name of the town probably derived from the personal name ''Bač'' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]]: ''[[Bač (personal name)|Bač]]'' or Бач, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: ''[[Bács (personal name)|Bács]]'', [[Romanian language|Romanian]]: ''Bac''). This name is of uncertain origin and its existence was recorded among [[Vlachs]], [[Slavs]] and [[Hungarians]] in the Middle Ages. The origin of the name could be [[Paleo-Balkan languages|Balkanic]], <ref>Milica Grković, Rečnik imena Banjskog, Dečanskog i Prizrenskog vlastelinstva u XIV veku, Beograd, 1986</ref> [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Slavic languages|Slavic]], <ref>Dr. Aleksa Ivić, Istorija Srba u Vojvodini, Novi Sad, 1929</ref> or [[Turkic languages|Old Turkic]]-[[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]. <ref>http://www.pallaslexikon.hu/pallas/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm</ref> In the [[Romanian language]], this name means "tenant, mountaineer or chieftain of the shepherd habitation in the mountain". The name could be spread into other languages by the Vlach shepherds. However, a similar name, ''Bača'', was recorded among old Russians, which implies the possibility of Slavic origin. <ref>С. Б. Веселовскии, Ономастикон, древнерусские имена, прозвиша и фамилии, Москва, 1974</ref> Hungarian sources claim that name derived from the Old Turkic ''baya'' dignity. Hungarian historians assume that the town was named after the first comes of the county, Bács ispán (Bač župan). <ref>http://www.dmisz.net/barangolo/tortenelem.htm</ref> However, the existence of that person is not historically confirmed and his ethnic origin is uncertain.
There are three more places named ''Bač'' in the territory of former [[Yugoslavia]] (in the [[Republic of Macedonia]], [[Montenegro]], and [[Slovenia]]), and a large number of place names beginning with letters "bač-" or "bács-" scattered all over the Balkans and Central Europe – in the countries of former Yugoslavia, [[Hungary]], and [[Romania]].
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