Bačko Novo Selo (

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: Бачко Ново Село ) is a village in

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. It is situated in the Bač municipality,

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province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and a Bosniak minority. Its population numbering 1,228 people (2002 census). The village was formally known as ''Batsch Neudorf'' prior to

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. The etymology of the village comes from

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meaning new village, Novo Selo and Bačko from the region it’s in Bačka.

History

Bačko Novo Selo was historically populated by

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. Following the end of the Second World War, the Yugoslav Communist authorities displaced the German population of the village and resettled families from

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. The Yugoslav Communist authorities aimed to develop Bačko Novo Selo into a

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colony of Vojvodina, however, by the spring of 1947, only an estimated 138 out of an expected 320 Muslim families settled in Bačko Novo Selo.

Geography

Neighbouring places are

Plavna Plavna (Serbian Cyrillic: Плавна) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bač municipality, in the South Bačka District, Vojvodina province. Its population is ethnically mixed and numbering 1,392 people (2002 census). Name In Serb ...

and Mladenovo (both located in

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), as well as Sotin and Opatovac, which are situated across the

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in the

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n part of

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Historical population

*1961: 2,236 *1971: 1,665 *1981: 1,522 *1991: 1,365

Famous residents

Refik Memišević Refik Memišević (14 May 1956 in Bačko Novo Selo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia – 4 January 2004 in Subotica, Serbia and Montenegro) was a Yugoslav wrestler who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 198 ...

, wrestle champion, born in 1956 in Bačko Novo Selo *

Refik Kozić Refik Kozić (; born 25 December 1951) is a Yugoslav retired professional footballer who played for FK Partizan, and in the NASL between 1980 and 1984 for the Tampa Bay Rowdies. His son Alen Kozić is also a former professional player. Career ...

, footballer, born in 1950 in Bačko Novo Selo

References

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

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