Bački Petrovac

Bački Petrovac
Бачки Петровац
Town and municipality
Evangelical Church in Bački Petrovac

Coat of arms

Location of Bački Petrovac within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°21′38″N 19°35′30″E / 45.36056°N 19.59167°E / 45.36056; 19.59167Coordinates: 45°21′38″N 19°35′30″E / 45.36056°N 19.59167°E / 45.36056; 19.59167
Country  Serbia
Province Vojvodina
District South Bačka
Government
 • Mayor Srďan Simiť
Area
 • Town 63.84 km2 (24.65 sq mi)
 • Municipality 158.35 km2 (61.14 sq mi)
Elevation 86 m (282 ft)
Population (2011 census)[1]
 • Town 6,063
 • Town density 95/km2 (250/sq mi)
 • Municipality 13,302
 • Municipality density 84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 21470
Area code(s) +381(0)21
Car plates NS
Website www.backipetrovac.rs
Map of Bački Petrovac municipality

Bački Petrovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачки Петровац, Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec; "Bačka Petrovac") is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 6,063, while Bački Petrovac municipality has 13,302 inhabitants.

Name

In Serbian Cyrillic the town is known as Бачки Петровац, in Serbian Latin as Bački Petrovac, in Slovak as Petrovec or Báčsky Petrovec, in Hungarian as Petrőc, and in German as Petrovacz.

Inhabited places

Bački Petrovac municipality includes the town of Bački Petrovac and the following villages:

Note: for the places with Slovak majority, the names are also given in Slovak.

Bački Petrovac is economical, cultural and administrative center of the municipality. It is a settlement of a town character, while the other three are villages of Pannonian type.

History

Being in south Bačka which according to special climatic and other conditions is one of the most fertile parts of Serbia, very suitable for settling down, here in this region people made their settlements very early. The first written records about Petrovac appears in the 13th century when Petrovac is mentioned as a church parish belonging to Bač County. Later that name is changed into Petrovac. Its first inhabitants were the Hungarians and Serbs. In the first half of the 18th century (1745) the Slovaks settled here. Since then Petrovac developed so that it represents cultural, economic, clerical and political center of the Slovaks in this region.

Economy

Agriculture is the most important economic activity based on the production of field crops (wheat, corn, broom weed, sugar beet, hop), cattle, breeding dud ponetry and vegetable crops. Besides agriculture there is also some industry manufacture, metal and chemical. Manufacture of wood civil engineering, printing activities, etc.

Demographics

Historical population of the town

  • 1961: 8,104
  • 1971: 7,822
  • 1981: 7,729
  • 1991: 7,236

Ethnic groups

Municipality

The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality. There are 9,751 ethnic Slovaks in the municipality or 66% of population. Other ethnic groups are: Serbs (3,779 or 25.74%), Yugoslavs (293 or 1.99%), and others.

Settlements with Slovak majorities are: Bački Petrovac (Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec), Gložan (Slovak: Hložany), and Kulpin (Slovak: Kulpín). There is one settlement with a Serb majority: Maglić.

Town

Population of the town of Bački Petrovac include 5,549 Slovaks, 573 Serbs, 169 Yugoslavs, and others.

The town is located in southern Bačka (hence the name), some 25 km northwest of Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina. It is the cultural center of Slovaks in the province, and other places in the eponymous municipalities are also inhabited by many Slovaks.

Politics

Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2012 local elections:

  • Democratic Party (10)
  • G17 Plus (3)
  • LSV (5)
  • LDP (3)
  • Socialist Party of Serbia (3)
  • Slovak Vojvodina Party (2)
  • United Serbia (2)
  • SNS (2)

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Bački Petrovac is twinned with:

See also

References

  • Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
  1. ↑ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
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