Bačko Novo Selo (

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: Бачко Ново Село ) is a village in

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. It is situated in the Bač municipality,

South Bačka District The South Bačka District ( sr, Јужнобачки округ, Južnobački okrug, ; hu, Dél-bácskai körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Geographically it lies in the southern ...

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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

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History

Bačko Novo Selo was historically populated by

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. 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.

Geography

Neighbouring places are

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and Mladenovo (both located in

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), as well as Sotin and Opatovac, which are situated across the

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in the

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n 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 * Refik Kozić, footballer, born in 1950 in Bačko Novo Selo

Gallery

File:Bac mun.png, Map of the Bač municipality showing the location of Bačko Novo Selo. File:Bačko_Novo_Selo,_Catholic_Church.jpg, The Saint Ana Catholic Church.

References

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

External links

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Places in Bačka Bač, Serbia South Bačka District Populated places on the Danube {{SouthBačkaRS-geo-stub