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Encyclopedia > Backi Petrovac Municipality
Бачки Петровац
Bački Petrovac
Petrovec
Coat of arms
Town coat of arms
Location in Serbia-Montenegro
[[Image:|150px|center|Map of Serbia-Montenegro highlighting the settlement location]]
General Information
Mayor  ?
Land area  ?
Population (2002 census) 6,727 (14,681 municipality)
Population density (2002)  ?
Coordinates [1]
Area code +381 21
Subdivisions 4 settlements in the municipality
License plate code  ?
Time zone UTC+1
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Bački Petrovac (Serbian: Bački Petrovac or Бачки Петровац, Slovak: Petrovec or Báčsky Petrovec, Hungarian: Petrőc, Croatian: Bački Petrovac) is a town and municipality in the South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro. The town has a population of 6,731, while Bački Petrovac municipality has 14,649 inhabitants. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... Car number plates in the former Yugoslavia showed the place where the car carrying them was registered, in the form of a two letter code. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... South Backa (Juzna Backa) District within Vojvodina South Bačka District (Južnobački okrug) is a northern district of Serbia. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official languages Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Rusin1 Capital Novi Sad Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  21,500 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2002)  â€“ Density  2,031,992  94. ...

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Inhabited places

Bački Petrovac municipality includes the town of Bački Petrovac and the following villages:

  • Gložan
  • Kulpin
  • Maglić

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality. There are 9,751 ethnic Slovaks in the municipality or 66.41% of population. Other ethnic groups are: Serbs (3,779 or 25.74%), Yugoslavs (293 or 1.99%), and others. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Yugoslavs were a relatively short-lived nationality that was created at the time of Yugoslavia. ...


Local communities with Slovak majorities are: Bački Petrovac (Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec), Gložan (Slovak: Hložany), and Kulpin (Slovak: Kulpin). There is one local community with a Serb majority: Maglić. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...


The town is located in southern Bačka (hence the name), some 25 km northwest of Novi Sad. It is the cultural center of Slovaks in the province, and other places in the eponymous municipality are also inhabited by many Slovaks. Bačka (Serbian: Бачка or Bačka, Hungarian: Bácska, Croatian: Bačka, Slovak: Báčka, German: Batschka) is an area of the Pannonian plain lying between the rivers Danube and Tisa. ... City motto: Serbian: Град по мери грађана (City of the citizens) Location in Serbia-Montenegro General Information Mayor Maja Gojković (SRS) (since 2004) Land area 129. ...


See also

This is a list of cities in Serbia and Montenegro. ...

External links

  • Bački Petrovac municipality

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Bački Petrovac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (479 words)
Bački Petrovac (Serbian: Bački Petrovac or Бачки Петровац, Slovak: Petrovec or Báčsky Petrovec, Hungarian: Petrőc, Croatian: Bački Petrovac) is a town and municipality in the South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bački Petrovac is economical, cultural and administrative center of the municipality.
The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality.
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