Kać

Kać

Каћ (Serbian)
Kać Каћ (Serbian)
Selo
	Kać
	Seal
	Kać Location within Novi Sad Kać Kać (Vojvodina) Kać Kać (Serbia)
	Coordinates: 45°18′N 19°57′E / 45.300°N 19.950°E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Bačka
Municipality	Novi Sad
Area
• Total	74.87 km2 (28.91 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	11,740
• Density	160/km2 (410/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381(0)21
Car plates	NS

Kać (Serbian Cyrillic: Каћ) is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The town had a population of 11,612 in the 2011 census.

Novi Sad

City of Novi Sad
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Municipality of
Novi Sad

Municipality of
Petrovaradin

Name

In Serbo-Croatian, the town is known as Kać or Каћ, in Hungarian as Káty, and in German as Katsch.

History

Kać was first mentioned during the administration of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in 1276 as in villa Hatt, while from 1332 to 33, it was mentioned as Mathias de Shacz. During the Habsburg rule in the 18th and 19th century, the village was part of the Military Frontier (the Šajkaš Battalion section).

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1948	4,406	—
1953	4,478	+1.6%
1961	5,640	+25.9%
1971	6,701	+18.8%
1981	8,551	+27.6%
1991	9,755	+14.1%
2002	11,166	+14.5%
2011	11,740	+5.1%
Source: Census ^[2]

Culture and sport

Jugović is a handball club from Kać. It competes in the Serbian First League of Handball since 1984. It was founded in 1956 under the name Mladost and changed its name to Jugović in 1960. Jugović won the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2000/2001 season.

There is a soccer team, also named Jugović, founded on 16 August 1912. It competes in the Novosadsko-Sremska zone League (4th League).

There is an Orthodox church from 1841 or 1844 in the suburb and a monastery named Manastir Vaskrsenja Hristova.

New neighborhoods in Kać

There are two new neighborhoods in Kać, Petrovdansko Naselje and the luxurious Sunčani Breg.

Transport

Kać is connected to Novi Sad by the city's bus service JGSP Novi Sad. Bus lines 22 (Kać), 23 (Budisava) and 24 (Kovilj) pass through the suburb frequently, as do other coaches to Titel, Perlez, Pančevo, Mošorin, Gardinovci and Lok.

Notable people

Mileva Marić – physicist, first wife of Albert Einstein
Avram Miletić – poet
Johann Lasi – Hungarian pilot
Jovo Bosančić – football player
Đorđe Randelj – writer

Gallery

School
Orthodox church
Main street

References

^ "Насеља општине Нови Сад" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Archived from the original (pdf) on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

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

External links

[area-novisad-1] "Насеља општине Нови Сад" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Archived from the original (pdf) on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2019.

[2] "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

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