Bački Jarak

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Bački Jarak
Бачки Јарак (Serbian)
Town
General store in town center
General store in town center
Municipality or city
Temerin
Area
 • Total19.1 km2 (7.4 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total5,687
Area code+ 381(0) 21
Car platesNS
The new Orthodox church.

Bački Jarak (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачки Јарак) is a town located in the Temerin municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 5,687 people (2011 census).

Name

In Serbian, the town is known as Bački Jarak (Бачки Јарак), formerly also Mali Jarak (Мали Јарак) and Jarak (Јарак); in German as Jarek, Batschki Jarak or Jarmosch; in Hungarian as Jármos or Tiszaistvánfalva; and in Croatian as Bački Jarak.

Its name is derived from Serbian noun jarak (coming from Turkish ark;[1][2] "ditch" or "trench" in English), while adjective bački refers to its location in the region of Bačka.

History

In 1267, there is mention of a place named Irig or Irišac. According to some opinions, this place was maybe located in the area of present-day Bački Jarak. This settlement was also recorded in 1703, while record from 1737 mention the existence of two settlements: Veliki Irišac and Mali Irišac. Both settlements belonged to the Futog seigniory.

The modern settlement was founded and settled by

Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In 1796, Temerin and Bački Jarak were sold to Count Sándor Széchényi
for a price of 80,000 forints.

In 1848-1849, the settlement was part of autonomous

Batsch-Bodrog County. In the 1910 census, a majority of settlement inhabitants spoke the German language.[4]

In 1918, the settlement (as part of the

Yugoslavia
.

In 1944, as a consequence of

Bosnian Krajina) and Croatia (Lika).[3]
Post-World War II population censuses recorded Serb ethnic majority in the town.

Some of the old houses of the German families, built vertically towards the road (na duž) and known as the

Swabian houses, still survive. The remaining houses, though mainly from the 19th century, were designed in the Josephinism style which originated in the second half of the 18th century, during the rule of emperor Joseph II. Family names were written on the façades and some are still visible, like that of Johann Wallrabenstein, who is described in chronicles as a "distinguished householder". As both Bački Jarak and Temerin developed in recent decades, they now form one continuously built-up area.[3]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19212,311—    
19482,438+5.5%
19532,544+4.3%
19613,362+32.2%
19713,858+14.8%
19815,396+39.9%
19915,426+0.6%
20026,049+11.5%
20115,687−6.0%
Source: [5]

Ethnic groups (2002 census):

Sport

Popular sports in Bački Jarak are football, handball, table tennis and karate. FK Mladost Bački Jarak currently competes in Serbian League Vojvodina.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Jarak - značenje" [Jarak - meaning]. www.opsteobrazovanje.in.rs (in Serbian).
  2. ^ Dorin Gamulesku (1977). Turcizmi - indirektne pozajmice iz srpskohrvatskog jezika u banatskim rumunskim govorima [Turkish loanwords - indirect loanwords from Serbo-Croatian language in the Banat's Romanian dialects]. Književni jezik. p. 6.
  3. ^ a b c d Andrijana Cvetićanin (12 November 2017), "Zanimljiva Srbija - Dugački šor temerinski" [Interesting Serbia: Temerin's long street], Politika-Magazin, No. 1050 (in Serbian), pp. 20–21
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-06-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4
    .

Further reading

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

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