Bačko Novo Selo

Place in Vojvodina, Serbia

Bačko Novo Selo Бачко Ново Село (Serbian)
45°18′N 19°08′E / 45.300°N 19.133°E / 45.300; 19.133
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka (Podunavlje)
District	South Bačka
Municipality	Bač
Population (2002)
• Total	1,228
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Bačko Novo Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачко Ново Село listen^ⓘ) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bač municipality, South Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and a Bosniak minority. Its population numbering 1,228 people (2002 census). The village was formally known as Batsch Neudorf prior to World War Two.^[1] The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo and Bačko from the region it’s in Bačka.

History

Bačko Novo Selo was historically populated by Danube Swabians. Following the end of the Second World War, the Yugoslav Communist authorities displaced the German population of the village and resettled families from Bosnia. The Yugoslav Communist authorities aimed to develop Bačko Novo Selo into a Muslim colony of Vojvodina, however, by the spring of 1947, only an estimated 138 out of an expected 320 Muslim families settled in Bačko Novo Selo.^[2]

Geography

Neighbouring places are Plavna and Mladenovo (both located in Bačka), as well as Sotin and Opatovac, which are situated across the Danube in the Croatian part of Syrmia.

Historical population

1961: 2,236
1971: 1,665
1981: 1,522
1991: 1,365

Famous residents

Refik Memišević, wrestle champion, born in 1956 in Bačko Novo Selo^[3]
Refik Kozić, footballer, born in 1950 in Bačko Novo Selo

Gallery

Map of the Bač municipality showing the location of Bačko Novo Selo.
The Saint Ana Catholic Church.

References

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

^ Pencz, Rudolf (2009). For the Homeland The 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division in World War II. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9781461751038.
^ Attila Hoare, Marko (2014). The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War. Oxford University Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780199365432.
^ "Refik Memišević". Archived from the original on 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-05-15.