Kać () is a suburban settlement of the city of

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. The town had a population of 11,612 in the 2011 census.

Name

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, the town is known as ''Kać'' or Каћ, in Hungarian as ''Káty'', and in German as ''Katsch''.

History

Kać was first mentioned during the administration of the medieval

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in 1276 as ''in villa Hatt'', while from 1332 to 33, it was mentioned as ''Mathias de Shacz''. During the

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rule in the 18th and 19th century, the village was part of the

Military Frontier The Military Frontier (; sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна крајина, Vojna krajina, sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна граница, Vojna granica, label=none; ; ) was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungari ...

(the Šajkaš Battalion section).

Demographics

Culture and sport

Jugović is a handball club from Kać. It competes in the Serbian First League of Handball since 1984. It was founded in 1956 under the name Mladost and changed its name to Jugović in 1960. Jugović won the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2000/2001 season. There is a soccer team, also named Jugović, founded on 16 August 1912. It competes in the Novosadsko-Sremska zone League (4th League). There is an Orthodox church from 1841 or 1844 in the suburb and a monastery named Manastir Vaskrsenja Hristova.

New neighborhoods in Kać

There are two new neighborhoods in Kać, Petrovdansko Naselje and the luxurious Sunčani Breg.

Transport

Kać is connected to Novi Sad by the city's bus service

JGSP Novi Sad JGSP Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, ЈГСП Нови Сад; full legal name in sr-Cyrl-Latn, Јавно Градско Саобраћајно Предузеће Нови Сад, Javno Gradsko Saobraćajno Preduzeće Novi Sad) is a Public transport, public ...

. Bus lines 22 (Kać), 23 (Budisava) and 24 (Kovilj) pass through the suburb frequently, as do other coaches to

Titel Titel ( sr-Cyrl, Тител, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 4,522, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 13,984 (2022 ...

, Perlez,

Pančevo Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; ; ; ; ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on the shores of rivers Timiș (ri ...

, Mošorin, Gardinovci and Lok.

Notable people

* Mileva Marić – physicist, first wife of

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* Avram Miletić – poet * Johann Lasi – Hungarian pilot * Jovo Bosančić – football player

References

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

External links

Unofficial website

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