Bački Gračac

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Bački Gračac (Бачки Грачац) is a village located in the Odžaci municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village is 2,913 people (2002 census), of whom 2,810 are ethnic Serbs.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Historical population 4 Notable People 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Name

Old Serbian name of the village was Filipovo (Филипово). The modified versions of this Serbian name (Filipowa, Filipsdorf) were also used by Germans. Name was first recorded in the (presumably already modified) form Filipova in a document written in the time of the Hungarian King Bela the 3rd (1173-1196). Other names used for the village were: Filipovo Selo (in Serbian), Kindlingen, Sankt Philipp (in German), Szentfülöp, Szent-Fülöp (in Hungarian).

[edit] History

During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), the village of Filipovo was mainly populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1652 there were 7 houses, and a monastery. Germans settled there in 1763. By 1764 20 houses were built and soon a total of 60 houses were built with a population of 75 German Families and by 1801 there were 272 houses. In the beginning of the 1900's there were 535 houses in the village. As a consequence of the World War II events in Yugoslavia, most of the German population fled from the village after this war.

[edit] Historical population

• 1880: 3,039
• 1910: 3,881
• 1921: 3,806
• 1961: 4,284
• 1971: 3,343
• 1981: 2,996
• 1991: 2,924
• 2002: 2,913

[edit] Notable People

• Robert Zollitsch, a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau and Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference.

[edit] References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

[edit] See also

• Odžaci
• West Bačka District
• Bačka
• Vojvodina
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

[edit] External links

• Bački Gračac
• History of Bački Gračac

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Coordinates: 45°33′N, 19°19′E