Kać () is a suburban settlement of the city of

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the P ...

, Serbia. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population was 11,612 at the 2011 census.

Name

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, the town is known as ''Kać'' or Каћ, in Croatian as ''Kać'', in Hungarian as ''Káty'', and in

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as ''Katsch''.

History

It was first mentioned during the administration of the medieval

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coronation of the Hungarian monarch, c ...

in 1276 as ''in villa Hatt'', while in 1332/33, it was mentioned as ''Mathias de Shacz''. During the

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

rule in the 18th and 19th century, the village was part of the Military Frontier (the Šajkaš Battalion section).

Demographics

Culture and sport

Jugović is a team handball club from Kać. It competes in the Serbian First League of Handball since 1984. It was founded in 1956 under the name Mladost and changed its name to Jugović in 1960. Jugović won the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2000/2001 season. There is a soccer team, also named Jugović, founded on 16 August 1912. It competes in the Novosadsko-Sremska zone League (4th League). There is an Orthodox church from 1841/44 in the town and a monastery named Manastir Vaskrsenja Hristova

New neighborhoods in Kać

There are two new neighborhoods in Kać, Petrovdansko naselje and luxurious Sunčani breg.

Transport

Kać is connected to Novi Sad by the city's bus service

JGSP Novi Sad JGSP Novi Sad (full legal name: ''Javno Gradsko Saobraćajno Preduzeće Novi Sad'') is a public transit company for the city of Novi Sad. History The company was founded on 3 August 1946 by order of the city, although the first modern tram line i ...

. Bus lines 22 (Kać), 23 (Budisava) and 24 (Kovilj) pass through the town frequently as do other coaches to

Titel Titel ( sr-Cyrl, Тител, hu, Titel) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 5,247, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 15, ...

, Perlez,

Pančevo Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; german: Pantschowa; hu, Pancsova; ro, Panciova; sk, Pánčevo) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, ...

, Mošorin, Gardinovci and Lok.

Notable people

Mileva Marić Mileva Marić ( sr-cyr, Милева Марић; 19 December 1875 – 4 August 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein ( sr-cyr, Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn), was a Serbian physicist and mathematician ...

– physicist *

Avram Miletić Avram Miletić ( sr, Аврам Милетић) (1755 – after 1826) was a merchant and writer of epic folk songs who is best known for writing the earliest collection of urban lyric poetry in Serbian between 1778 and 1781. Family Miletić wa ...

– poet *

Johann Lasi ''Stabfeldwebel'' Johann Lasi (born 1890, date of death unknown) was a World War I Austro-Hungarian flying ace, a Croat by ethnicity, credited with five aerial victories on 22 Aug 1916, while acting as an unauthorized rear gunner for Julius Arigi. ...

– Hungarian pilot * Arpad Sterbik – handball player * Dragan Škrbić – handball player * Milorad Krivokapić – handball player * Nenad Peruničić – handball player * Dobrivoje Marković – handball player * Rajko Prodanović – handball player * Jovo Bosančić – football player * Đorđe Randelj – writer * Voja Skrbić – Gangster

Gallery

File:OŠ Đura Jakšić Kać.jpg, School File:Црква Св. Николаја Каћ.jpg, Orthodox church File:Главна улица у Каћу.jpg, Main street

References

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

External links

Unofficial website

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