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Bački Gračac (Serbian Cyrillic: 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. This village is a former site of genocide.

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Bački Gračac Бачки Грачац (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
Health centre in the village.
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Coordinates: 45°33′N 19°19′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka
District	West Bačka
Municipality	Odžaci
Population  (2011)
• Total	2,295
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Name

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

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. Following the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the region became part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The area having been depopulated by the lengthy Turkish wars, Germans citizens from Württemberg migrated to the area at the invitation of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-Hungary, beginning in 1763. By 1764, 20 houses were built and soon a total of 60 houses were built with a population of 75 German families; by 1801, there were 272 houses. In the beginning of the 1900s there were 535 houses in the village.

In 1944 there were 5,280 Germans among 5,306 inhabitants^{[citation needed]}.Most of the German inhabitants of the village were forcefully expelled and deported to camps and many murdered by Communist partisans in the brutality and chaos during and after WWII. 212 men, ages 16 to 65 were rounded up and shot on 25. November 1944.[1] The remaining population was placed in a concentration camp with little to no food and poor sanitation. Camps consisted of homes seized from the people and guarded by armed partisans. Many succumb to typhoid, dysentery, or starvation.

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
• 2011: 2,295
• 2014: 2.273

Notable people

• Robert Zollitsch, a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He formerly served as Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau and Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference.
• Peter Kupferschmidt, a German football player.

See also

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

References

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

External links

• Bački Gračac

На других языках

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[de] Bački Gračac

Bački Gračac (serbisch-kyrillisch Бачки Грачац; deutsch Filipowa, auch Kindlingen oder Philipsdorf[2], kroatisch Filipovo, ungarisch Szentfülöp) ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Odžaci in der westlichen Batschka. Er liegt in der serbischen autonomen Provinz Vojvodina. 2011 zählte er 2295 Einwohner.[1]

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- [en] Bački Gračac

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