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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
In the past, Bač was a personal name either of Slavic , Balkanic or Hungarian origin. In the early Árpádic era (11-13th centuries) Bács was a common Hungarian personal name , derived from the Old Turkic baya dignity. Hungarian historians assume that the town was named after the first comes of county, Bács ispán . In the Romanian language, the same word means "tenant, mountaineer or chieftain of the shepherd habitation in the mountain". The name was probably spread into other languages by the Vlach shepherds. In the territory of former Yugoslavia, places with name Bač could be found in the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Slovenia. There are also several place names with the word "bács" in the Hungarian linguistic territory. However, similar name Bača was recorded among old Russians, which imply the possibility of Slavic origin.
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:
- Serbs (46.69%)
- Slovaks (19.75%)
- Croats (8.53%)
- Hungarians (6.09%)
- Yugoslavs (4.94%)
- Romanians (3.5%)
- Roma (1.95%)
- Muslims (1.32%)
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
- Dr. Aleksa Ivić, Istorija Srba u Vojvodini, Novi Sad, 1929
- Milica Grković, Rečnik imena Banjskog, Dečanskog i Prizrenskog vlastelinstva u XIV veku, Beograd, 1986
- http://www.pallaslexikon.hu/pallas/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm
- http://www.dmisz.net/barangolo/tortenelem.htm
- С. Б. Веселовскии, Ономастикон, древнерусские имена, прозвиша и фамилии, Москва, 1974
See also
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