Tovariševo () is a village in

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, 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

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ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,102 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as ''Tovariševo'' or Товаришево, in German as ''Towarisch'', in Hungarian as ''Bácstóváros'' (or former ''Tovarisova''), and in Croatian as ''Tovariševo''.

Geography

Tovariševo is located 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 ...

. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Bačka Palanka.

History

Tovariševo is one of the old

communities of

, first mentioned in 1543, during Ottoman administration. It administratively was part of the Ottoman

Sanjak of Segedin Sanjak of Segedin or Sanjak of Szeged (Turkish: Segedin Sancağı, Hungarian: Szegedi szandzsák, Serbian: Сегедински санџак) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire formed in the 16th century. It was locat ...

. In the end of the 17th century, the village was abandoned, but was repopulated in the beginning of the 18th century, during Habsburg administration. A description from the end of the 18th century (by András Vályi) states that ''"Tovarisova is a Rac'' (

) ''village in

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. The landowner is the Royal Hungarian Chamber and the population follows the old faith'' (i.e. Orthodox). ''The black soil gives wheat, barley and oats, the village has an oak forest and a bad vineyard; it hasn't any water, but after the long autumn rains the soil became sodden; it lacks reed but it has silk-beetles. The nearest market-town is Újvidék ''(

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 Pan ...

)'', where people can earn money from the sale of cattle."'' Until 1848, the village was part of the Batsch-Bodrog County within the Habsburg

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. In 1848-1849 it was part of autonomous

Serbian Vojvodina The Serbian Vojvodina ( sr, Српска Војводина / ) was a short-lived self-proclaimed Serb autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (o ...

, while from 1849 to 1860, it was part of the

Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar , conventional_long_name = Voivodeship of Serbia and Temes Banate , common_name = Serbia and Banat , subdivision = Crownland , nation = the Austrian Empire , year_start = 1849 , date_start = 18 November , year_end = 1860 , date_end = ...

, which was a separate Habsburg crownland. After abolishment of the voivodeship, in 1860, the village was again included into Batsch-Bodrog County. In 1787 population of the village numbered 1,490 inhabitants, while until the middle of the 19th century number of inhabitants was enlarged to 2,945. After 1843, a German minority settled in the village next to the

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, and they built a big

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church dedicated to

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in 1882. The population of Tovariševo was 3,439 (2,281 Serbs and 844 Germans) in 1880. Since 1918, the village is part of the

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(renamed to

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in 1929). In 1921, population of the village was 3,875, mostly Serb, while 850 inhabitants were Germans. From 1918 to 1922, the village was part of

county, from 1922 to 1929 part of

Bačka Bačka ( sr-cyrl, Бачка, ) or Bácska () is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east. It is divided between Serbia and Hunga ...

Oblast, and from 1929 to 1941 part of Danube Banovina. During the

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, from 1941 to 1944, the village was under

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occupation and was attached to Horthy's

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. In 1944,

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and

Yugoslav partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод� ...

expelled Axis troops from the region and village became part of the new

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. Local German population mostly fled from the area together with defeated German Army. Since 1944, the village is part of the autonomous province of

, which in 1945 was included into

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within

Demographics

In 2002 the population of the village numbered 3,102 people, including 2,583 Serbs, 278 Roma, and others.

Historical population

*1961: 3,581 *1971: 3,381 *1981: 3,297 *1991: 3,043 *2002: 3,102 *2011: 2,657

Sights

In the middle of the village stands the baroque Serb-Orthodox Church, dedicated to Saint Gregory the Theologian (Bogoslov) and the Roman Catholic Church. The latter is almost derelict because today it has only a weak Croatian and Hungarian congregation.

Gallery

File:Сеча Бадњака-2009-1.jpg, Serb Christmas costumes File:Спомен обележје борцима и настрадалим у Другом светском рату-2.jpg, WW2 memorial dedicated to fallen partisan fighters and victims of Axis occupation File:Tovariševo,_Catholic_Church.jpg, The Saint Charles Bormeian Catholic Church File:Steeple_of_the_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Tovariševo,_Vojvodina,_Serbia_-_20060602.jpg, The steeple of the Catholic church

References

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

External links

Welcome to TovariševoZvanična prezentacija TovariševaInternet prezentacija FK Vojvodina TovariševaTovariševo - Mapa opštine Bačka Palanka
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tovarisevo Bačka Palanka Places in Bačka South Bačka District