Backa Palanka
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Бачка Паланка Bačka Palanka Báčska Palanka |
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : |
Južna Bačka |
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| Coordinates : | 45 ° 15 ′ N , 19 ° 24 ′ E | ||||
| Residents : | 29,449 (2002) | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) +381 21 | ||||
| License plate : | BP | ||||
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| Mayor : | Branislav Šušnica | ||||
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Bačka Palanka ( Serbian / Croatian : Bačka Palanka ; Serbian Cyrillic : Бачка Паланка ; Slovak : Báčska Palanka ; Hungarian : Bácspalánka ; German : Plankenburg ) is a municipality and a city or town in Serbia , which is in the southern Batschka in the autonomous province Vojvodina is located.
The city is connected to the Croatian city of Ilok by a 740 m long bridge over the Danube .
Geographical location
The city is located on the left bank of the Danube , about 45 km upstream from Novi Sad . The municipality includes the places Obrovac , Karađorđevo (stud farm), Tovariševo, Mladenovo, Čelarevo , Gajdobra, Nova Gajdobra, Silbaš, Parage, Despotovo and Pivnice as well as two villages in Srem (Neštin and Vizić). The Little Batschka Canal runs in the north of the municipality, near Despotovo .
Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the municipality has 60,966 people, 29,449 of them in the town of Bačka Palanka.
Ethnic composition in the community:
- Serbs = 47,916 (78.59%)
- Slovaks = 5,837 (9.57%)
- Hungary = 1,490 (2.44%)
- Yugoslavs = 1,041 (1.7%)
- Croatians = 982 (1.61%)
- Roma = 841 (1.37%)
- others ( Russians , Bosniaks ).
Ethnic composition in the city:
- Serbs = 23,864 (81.04%)
- Slovaks = 1,194 (4.06%)
- Hungary = 1,160 (3.94%)
- Croatians = 618 (2.10%)
- Yugoslavs = 607 (2.06%)
- Roma = 231 (0.78%)
- Montenegrins = 110
Attractions
From 1783 to 1787 the Serbian Orthodox Church for the birth of St. John the Baptist was built in the city center . At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church was built from 1782 to 1784, primarily for the German population, to which a monastery was temporarily attached.
The Tikvare leisure center with an outdoor pool and various sports facilities is located south of the city center on the banks of the Danube .
Sports
The largest sports club in Bačka Palanka is the football club FK Bačka Bačka Palanka .
Twin cities
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Jenő Konrád (1894–1978), Hungarian football player and coach
- Kálmán Konrád (1896–1980), Hungarian football player and coach
- Anton Scherer (1922–2015), teacher and man of letters
- Hans Supritz (* 1939), Federal Chairman of the Danube Swabian Landsmannschaft in Germany
- Mihalj Kertes (* 1947), civil servant and politician
- Jelena Bodražić (* 1971), opera and concert singer
- Sergije Karanović (* 1975), Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Central Europe
- Mićo Janić (* 1979), Croatian canoeist
- Stjepan Janić (* 1980), Croatian canoeist
- Miljana Knežević (* 1983), canoeist
- Natasa Janics (* 1982), Hungarian canoeist of Serbian-Croatian origin
- Đorđe Ivelja (* 1984), football player
- Marko Vujin (* 1984), handball player
- Bojan Beljanski (* 1986), handball player
- Žarko Šešum (* 1986), handball player
- Dragan Zorić (* 1979), canoeist
- Milenko Zorić (* 1989), canoeist
