Bački Petrovac

Bački Petrovac (Бачки Петровац; Báčsky Petrovec; Petrőc) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 5,227, while the municipality has 11,512 inhabitants.

Name
In Serbian Cyrillic the town is known as Бачки Петровац, in Serbian Latin as Bački Petrovac, in Slovak as Petrovec or Báčsky Petrovec, in Hungarian as Petrőc, and in German as Petrovacz.

Bački Petrovac is the economical, cultural and administrative center of the municipality. It is a settlement of a town character, while the other three are villages of Pannonian type.

History
Being in south Bačka which according to special climatic and other conditions is one of the most fertile parts of Serbia, very suitable for settling down, here in this region people made their settlements very early. The first written records about Petrovac appears in the 13th century when Petrovac is mentioned as a church parish belonging to Bač County. Later that name is changed into Petrovac. Its first inhabitants were the Hungarians and Serbs. In the first half of the 18th century (1745) the Slovaks settled here. Since then Petrovac developed so that it represents cultural, economic, clerical and political center of the Slovaks in this region.

Inhabited places
Bački Petrovac municipality includes the town of Bački Petrovac and the following villages:
 * Gložan (Hložany)
 * Kulpin (Kulpín)
 * Maglić

Note: for the places with Slovak majority, the names are also given in Slovak.

Demographics
According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has 11,512 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups
The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality. Settlements with Slovak majorities are: Bački Petrovac (Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec), Gložan (Slovak: Hložany), and Kulpin (Slovak: Kulpín). There is one settlement with a Serb majority: Maglić. The town is located in southern Bačka (hence the name), some 25 km northwest of Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina. It is the cultural center of Slovaks in the province, and other places in the eponymous municipalities are also inhabited by many Slovaks.

The ethnic composition of the municipality:

Economy
Agriculture is the most important economic activity based on the production of field crops (wheat, corn, broom weed, sugar beet, hop), cattle, breeding dud ponetry and vegetable crops. Besides agriculture there is also some industry manufacture, metal and chemical. Manufacture of wood civil engineering, printing activities, etc.

The following table gives a preview of total number of employed people per their core activity (as of 2017):

Twin towns — Sister cities
Bački Petrovac is twinned with:
 * 🇷🇸 Babušnica, Serbia
 * 🇸🇰 Martin, Slovakia
 * 🇸🇰 Nitra, Slovakia
 * 🇸🇰 Ružomberok, Slovakia
 * 🇸🇰 Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia
 * 🇭🇷 Vukovar, Croatia
 * 🇩🇪 Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany