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Bács-Bodrog (
Hungarian:
Bács-Bodrog,
Serbian:
Bačka-Bodrog or
Бачка-Бодрог) is the name of administrative county (
comitatus) of the historic
Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is currently in southern
Hungary and northern
Serbia (western
Vojvodina). The capital of the county was
Sombor (
Hungarian:
Zombor).
Name
The county was named after a town of
Bač (Bács) and
Abodrites (Bodrog in Hungarian, Bodrići in Slavic), an old Slavic tribe that inhabited the region in medieval times.
The Abodrites were originally from North-west Germany, but after their homeland fell to the Germans, some had moved to
Pannonia.
Geography
Bács-Bodrog county shared borders with the Hungarian counties
Baranya,
Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun,
Csongrád,
Torontál,
Szerém, and
Verőce (the latter two counties were part of
Croatia-Slavonia). The river
Danube formed its western and southern border. The river
Tisza formed its eastern border, down to its confluence with the Danube. Its area was 10,362
km² around
1910.
History
Bács county arose as one of the first comitatus of the
Kingdom of Hungary, in the
11th century. The county was taken by the
Ottoman Empire in the
16th century. During the Ottoman rule, the area of the county was part of the
sanjak of
Segedin. The Bács county was established again after the
Bačka region was captured by the
Habsburg Monarchy in 1699. The eastern parts of Bačka were incorporated into Tisa-Moriš section of
Military Frontier. After this part of Military Frontier was abolished in 1751, the eastern parts of Bačka were also included into Bács county. The only part of Bačka, which remained within Military Frontier was
Šajkaška, but it also came under the civil administration in 1873.
In 1848/1849 the area of the county was part of
Serbian Voivodship, while between
1849 and
1860 it was part of
Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat, a separate
Habsburg province. The county Bács-Bodrog was created in the
1860s, when the area was incorporated into the
Kingdom of Hungary.
In
1918 county became part of the newly formed
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). By the
Treaty of Trianon of
1920, territory of the county was divided between the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and
Hungary. Most of the county (including
Sombor,
Subotica, and
Novi Sad) was assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, while the northernmost approximately 15% of the county was assigned to
Hungary.
Between 1918 and 1922, the southern part of the former Bács-Bodrog county was a county of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with seat in
Novi Sad. The northern part of the former county was a county within Hungary since 1921. The capital of this smaller Hungarian county Bács-Bodrog was
Baja. After
World War II Bács-Bodrog was united with the southern part of former
Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county to form
Bács-Kiskun county.
The Yugoslav part of the pre-1918 Bács-Bodrog county (the
Bačka region) is currently part of
Serbia, autonomous region of
Vojvodina.
Demographics
According to the Austrian census from
1715,
Serbs,
Bunjevci, and
Šokci comprised 97.6% of the county's population.
The 1720 census recorded 104,569 citizens in the county. Of those, there were 98,000 Serbs (divided into 76,000
Orthodox and 22,000
Roman Catholics or
Bunjevci and
Šokci), 5,019
Magyars and 750
Germans. The Serbs (73%) and Bunjevci and Šokci (21%) had an overwhelming majority in the county which seems to have been inhabited solely by them.
During the 18th century, the Habsburgs carried out an intensive colonisation of the area, which had low population density after the last
Ottoman wars. The new settlers were primarily
Serbs,
Hungarians, and
Germans. Because many of the Germans came from
Swabia, they were known as
Donauschwaben, or
Danube Swabians. Some Germans also came from Austria, and some from
Bavaria and
Alsace.
Lutheran Slovaks,
Rusyns, and others were also colonized but to a much smaller extent.
There was also an emigration of Serbs from the eastern parts of the region, which belonged to Military Frontier until 1751. After the abolishment of the Tisa-Moriš section of Military Frontier, many Serbs emigrated from north-eastern parts of Bačka. They moved either to
Russia (notably to
Nova Serbia and
Slavo-Serbia) or to
Banat, where Military Frontier was still needed.
By
1820 the county had grown to 387,914 in total population. The Serb (including Bunjevci and Šokci) share had dropped to 44% or 170,942 with the number of Hungarians plummeting at 121,688 and Germans at 91,016 or 31% and 23% respectively.
The 19th century saw the rize of nationalism, particularly Hungarian and
Magyarization. The policy of massive Hungarian colonization, mostly in the north of Bačka-Bodrog finally gave a Magyar relative majority, but still with a mixed population, as recorded by the
1910 census.
According to the census of 1910, the county had 812,385 inhabitants. Population by language (1910 census):
- Hungarian = 363,518 (44.75%)
- German = 190,697 (23.47%)
- Serbian = 145,063 (17.86%)
- Slovak = 30,137
- Russniak = 10,760
- Croatian = 1,279
- Romanian = 386
- other languages = 70,545 (for the most part Bunjevac and Šokac)
As for the geographical distribution of the three largest ethnic groups in 1910,
Hungarians mainly lived in northern parts of the county,
Germans in western, and
Serbs in the southern parts.
Novi Sad, city in the southern part of the county, was the cultural and political centre of the Serb people in the 18th and 19th century.
Subdivisions
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Bács-Bodrog county were:
The towns
Baja and
Bácsalmás are currently in
Hungary; the other towns mentioned are currently in
Serbia.
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