Bikač ( sr-Cyrl, Бикач) is a settlement (
hamlet
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) in the
Kikinda
Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; hu, Nagykikinda) is a city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia . The city urban area has 38,069 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 59,453 inhabitants.
The c ...
municipality, Republic of
Serbia
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. Officially, Bikač is not classified as a separate settlement, but as a part of the village of
Bašaid
Bašaid ( sr-cyr, Башаид) is a village located in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat District of the Republic of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has an ethnic Serb majority (89.15%) and ...
.
History
In 1422, the hamlet of Bikač was the estate of a family of the same name. After its destruction by the
Ottoman army, it was recorded again on maps from 1761. In 1804, 40
Hungarian families arrived at the settlement, followed by another 60 families a decade later.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the hamlet consisted of 70 households, inhabited by 239
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Hungarians
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.
According to a census from 1971, the population of Bikač was 324.
References
*Brane Marijanović ''et al.'' ''Kikinda: istorija, kultura, sela, privreda, sport, turizam'', Novi Sad: Prometej, 2002.
Kikinda
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