Gakovo

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Sombor

Kljajićevo

Čonoplja

Svetozar Miletić

Telečka

Bački Monoštor

Bezdan

Kolut

Bački Breg

Gakovo

Kruševlje

Stanišić

Aleksa Šantić

Rastina

Riđica

Stapar

Doroslovo

Municipality
of Sombor
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The new Orthodox church in the village. The razed Catholic church stood here until the end of the 1960s.

Gakovo (Гаково) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 (2002 census).

[edit] Geography

Gakovo is located in north-western Bačka near the border with Hungary. A small neighbouring settlement known as Kruševlje is also officially regarded as part of Gakovo.

[edit] History

Gakovo was founded by German colonists between 1763 and 1768. It was the site of a Post World War II concentration camp for the ethnic Germans (Donauschwaben). Present-day inhabitants of the village were settled here after World War II. They originating from Mrkonjić Grad and Donja Pecka.

[edit] Historical population

• 1941: 2,531
• 1948: 62
• 1953: 2,022
• 1961: 1,769
• 1971: 2,014
• 1981: 2,122
• 1991: 2,073

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

[edit] External links

• Gakovo
• www.soinfo.org

v • d • e Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District Sombor Aleksa Šantić · Bački Breg · Bački Monoštor · Bezdan · Gakovo · Doroslovo · Kljajićevo · Kolut · Rastina · Riđica · Svetozar Miletić · Stanišić · Stapar · Telečka · Čonoplja Apatin Kupusina · Prigrevica · Svilojevo · Sonta Kula Kruščić · Lipar · Nova Crvenka · Ruski Krstur · Sivac · Crvenka Odžaci Bački Brestovac · Bački Gračac · Bogojevo · Deronje · Karavukovo · Lalić · Ratkovo · Srpski Miletić bold are municipalities

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