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Bač, Serbia

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Bač
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Bač municipality

Bač (Serbian: Бач or Bač; Slovak: Báč; Croatian: Bač; Hungarian: Bács; German: Batsch) is a town and municipality in South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 6,046, while Bač municipality has 16,101 inhabitants. The Bačka region was named after the town of Bač.

Name

The name of the town probably derived from the personal name Bač (Serbian: Bač or Бач, Hungarian: Bács, 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 Balkanic, [1] Romanian, Slavic, [2] Old Turkic-Hungarian. [3] 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. [4] 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). [5] 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-"/"bács-" scattered all over the Balkans and Central Europe – in the countries of former Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Romania.

History

The archeological research showed that an ancient Roman settlement existed in this area. Bač was first mentioned in 535 AD, in a letter written by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian. In 873 AD, the town was mentioned as Avar fortress, inhabited by both, Avars and Slavs.

In the 11th century, the town was a seat of the Bač (Bacsensis) county of the Kingdom of Hungary. First known prefect of Bač County was recorded in 1074 and his name was Vid, which is a Slavic name by origin.

During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), Bač was a seat of a nahija of Bač and was populated by ethnic Serbs. Since the end of the 17th century, the town was under Habsburg rule and many Germans settled in Bač during this time.

Inhabited places

Bač municipality includes the town of Bač and the following villages:

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Bač municipality:

Settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Bač, Bačko Novo Selo, and Bođani. The settlement with Slovak ethnic majority is Selenča. Ethnically mixed settlements with relative Serb majority are Vajska and Plavna.

Sites of interest

Notes

  1. ^ Milica Grković, Rečnik imena Banjskog, Dečanskog i Prizrenskog vlastelinstva u XIV veku, Beograd, 1986
  2. ^ Dr. Aleksa Ivić, Istorija Srba u Vojvodini, Novi Sad, 1929
  3. ^ http://www.pallaslexikon.hu/pallas/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm
  4. ^ С. Б. Веселовскии, Ономастикон, древнерусские имена, прозвиша и фамилии, Москва, 1974
  5. ^ http://www.dmisz.net/barangolo/tortenelem.htm

See also

 

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