Maglić () or Bački Maglić (Бачки Маглић) is a village located in the

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municipality, in the

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. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of

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. The population of the village numbering 2,695 people (2002 census), of whom 2,426 are ethnic

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Name

In Serbian, the village is known as ''Maglić'' (Маглић), or formerly also "Bulkes" (Булкес) or "Buljkes" (Буљкес); in Croatian as ''Maglić''; in Hungarian as ''Bulkeszi'' or ''Bulkesz''; and in

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as "Bulkes" (or ''Pfalzweiler'').

History

Before the

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, the village was called Buljkes, and was inhabited chiefly by ethnic Germans, settled here around 1786, mostly from

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. In 1944, many of the residents fled ahead of the advancing Russian and Partisan troops. Under the newly enacted AVNOJ laws, in December 1944 the remaining residents were forced to relocate to the newly established concentration camp at

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and the village was abandoned. In May 1945, 4,650

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refugees, mostly male members of

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, settled in the village with the help of Yugoslav government. From 1945 to 1948, it was a sui generis case of Greek

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. The Yugoslav conflict with the Informbiro saw the Greek community divided between loyalty to Yugoslavia and to the Comintern, and those who supported the latter left the country. The remaining also emigrated to

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eventually, with only a few remaining. The final settlement of the village started in late 1949, and ended around 1953. Settlers, chiefly

, came in several waves, from all over the

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. The village took the current name in 1949, after the Maglić mountain in eastern Herzegovina. The name partly evocates the sentiment of some settlers from that area, and partly subsumes the multi-original nature of the villagers, as it lies on junction of Bosnia, Herzegovina and

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Historical population

Gallery

File:Maglić,_Evangelical_Church.jpg, Old Evangelical Church.

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Official website of Bački Petrovac: Maglić

External links