Bački Petrovac
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Town and municipality | |
Bački Petrovac | |
![]() Location of Bački Petrovac within Serbia | |
Coordinates: 45°21′38″N 19°35′30″E / 45.36056°N 19.59167°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
District | South Bačka |
Government | |
• Mayor | Jasna Šproh (SNS) |
Area | |
• Town | 63.84 km2 (24.65 sq mi) |
• Municipality | 158.35 km2 (61.14 sq mi) |
Elevation | 86 m (282 ft) |
Population (2022 census)[1] | |
• Town | 5,227 |
• Town density | 82/km2 (210/sq mi) |
• Municipality | 11,512 |
• Municipality density | 73/km2 (190/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 21470 |
Area code | +381(0)21 |
Car plates | NS |
Website | www.backipetrovac.rs |
Bački Petrovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачки Петровац; Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec; Hungarian: Petrőc) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 5,227, while the municipality has 11,512 inhabitants.[2]
Name
[edit]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.
Bački Petrovac is the 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
[edit]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.
Inhabited places
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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.
Demographics
[edit]Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1948 | 13,814 | — |
1953 | 15,142 | +1.85% |
1961 | 16,865 | +1.36% |
1971 | 16,042 | −0.50% |
1981 | 16,095 | +0.03% |
1991 | 15,662 | −0.27% |
2002 | 14,681 | −0.59% |
2011 | 13,418 | −0.99% |
2022 | 11,512 | −1.38% |
Source: [3][2] |
According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has 11,512 inhabitants.[2]
Ethnic groups
[edit]The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality. 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. 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.
The ethnic composition of the municipality:[2]
Ethnic group | Population | % |
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Slovaks | 6,975 | 60.59% |
Serbs | 3,227 | 28.03% |
Roma | 119 | 1.04% |
Yugoslavs | 91 | 0.79% |
Hungarians | 75 | 0.65% |
Croats | 71 | 0.62% |
Albanians | 24 | 0.21% |
Others | 930 | 8.08% |
Total | 11,512 |
Economy
[edit]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.
The following table gives a preview of total number of employed people per their core activity (as of 2017):[4]
Activity | Total |
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Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 390 |
Mining | 1 |
Processing industry | 1,862 |
Distribution of power, gas and water | 5 |
Distribution of water and water waste management | 54 |
Construction | 138 |
Wholesale and retail, repair | 451 |
Traffic, storage and communication | 82 |
Hotels and restaurants | 159 |
Media and telecommunications | 36 |
Finance and insurance | 17 |
Property stock and charter | 11 |
Professional, scientific, innovative and technical activities | 216 |
Administrative and other services | 101 |
Administration and social assurance | 140 |
Education | 215 |
Healthcare and social work | 154 |
Art, leisure and recreation | 14 |
Other services | 42 |
Total | 4,090 |
Gallery
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The "Oldest house in Bački Petrovac" built in 1799
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The Evangelist Church in Bački Petrovac
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The building of the Ján Kollár Gymnasium and Students' Home in Bački Petrovac, first half of the 20th century
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WW2-era poster from Bački Petrovac in Hungarian and Serbian, threatening twentyfold reprisal for the killing of soldiers by partisans
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Matica slovenská in Bački Petrovac
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The Slovak Vojvodina Theatre in Bački Petrovac
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Workers building a road in Bački Petrovac
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Gallery of Zuzka Medveďová in Bački Petrovac
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The Catholic Church in Bački Petrovac
International relations
[edit]Twin towns — Sister cities
[edit]Bački Petrovac is twinned with:
Babušnica, Serbia
Martin, Slovakia
Nitra, Slovakia
Ružomberok, Slovakia
Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia
Vukovar, Croatia
Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
- ^ "2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings: Ethnicity (data by municipalities and cities)" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. April 2023. ISBN 978-86-6161-228-2. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
- ^ a b c d "2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ ОПШТИНЕ И РЕГИОНИ У РЕПУБЛИЦИ СРБИЈИ, 2018. (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Ján Kollár Grammar School (in Slovak and English)
- Petrovec Online community (in Slovak)
- Matica slovenská v Srbsku (in Slovak)
- Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov Theatre (in Slovak)
- Hlas Ľudu weekly magazine (in Slovak)