Obrovac () is a village located in the Bačka Palanka municipality, in the

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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. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,177 people (2002 census).

Name

Name ''Obrovac'' is of Serbian origin (there is a town in

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n Dalmatia with same name, see: Obrovac, Croatia). Germans and Hungarians also used modified versions of this Serbian name: Obrowatz (in German) or Boróc, previously Obrovácz (in Hungarian).

History

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established it in 1308. It was destroyed by Ottomans in 1526, after The

Battle of Mohács The Battle of Mohács (; hu, mohácsi csata, tr, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and thos ...

. Growth of the village starts at the end of the 16th century. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), Obrovac was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1698, people who left Metković (now Nova Gajdobra) settled in Obrovac. In 1757,

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church and school were built. In 1786, 138 Serb families lived in the village. At the same time, many German people came here from

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(after 1768). In 1825, Catholic church and school for German children were built. In 1904, 1,985 Germans and 1,072 Serbs lived in Obrovac. Today, village has many cultural and sports manifestations.

Historical population

* 1880: 2,730 * 1910: 2,930 * 1921: 3,039 * 1961: 3,512 * 1971: 3,174 * 1981: 3,245 * 1991: 3,242 * 2002: 3,177

References

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

Gallery

Image:Obrovac,_Catholic_Church.jpg, The Saint Ferdinand the Bishop Catholic Church in Obrovac. Image:Steeple_of_the_Saint_Ferdinand_the_Bishop_Catholic_Church,_Obrovac,_Vojvodina,_Serbia_-_20060602.jpg, The steeple of the Catholic Church. Image:Sculpture_in_front_of_the_Saint_Ferdinand_the_Bishop_Catholic_Church,_Obrovac,_Vojvodina,_Serbia_-_20060602.jpg, Sculpture in front of the Catholic Church. Image:Inscription_at_base_of_sculpture_in_front_of_the_Saint_Ferdinand_the_Bishop_Catholic_Church,_Obrovac,_Vojvodina,_Serbia_-_20060602.jpg, Inscription on the bottom of the sculpture.

Name

History

Historical population

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Gallery

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