Tovariševo

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Map of the Bačka Palanka municipality, showing the location of Tovariševo

The Saint Charles Bormeian Catholic Church

The steeple of the Catholic church

Tovariševo (Товаришево) is a village in Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,102 people (2002 census).

[edit] Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Tovariševo or Товаришево, in German as Towarisch, in Hungarian as Bácstóváros (or former Tovarisova), and in Croatian as Tovariševo.

[edit] Geography

Tovariševo is located in the South Bačka District. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Bačka Palanka.

[edit] History

Tovariševo is one of the old Serb communities of Vojvodina, first mentioned in 1543. A description from the end of the 18th century (by András Vályi) states that "Tovarisova is a Rac (Serb) village in Bács county. The landowner is the Royal Hungarian Chamber and the population follows the old faith (i.e. Orthodox). The black soil gives wheat, barley and oats, the village has an oak forest and a bad vineyard; it hasn't any water, but after the long autumn rains the soil became sodden; it lacks reed but it has silk-beetles. The nearest market-town is Újvidék (Novi Sad), where people can earn money from the sale of cattle."

After 1843, a German minority settled in the village next to the Serbs, and they built a big Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo in 1882. The population of Tovariševo was 3,439 (2,281 Serb and 844 German) in 1880, and 3,875 (with 850 German) in 1921.

After the Second World War, the Germans were expelled. In 2002 the population was 3,102 (2,583 Serbs, 278 Roma).

[edit] Historical population

• 1961: 3,581
• 1971: 3,381
• 1981: 3,297
• 1991: 3,043

[edit] Sights

In the middle of the village stands the baroque Serb-Orthodox Church, dedicated to Saint Gregory the Theologian (Bogoslov) and the Roman-Catholic Church. The later is almost derelict because today it has only a weak Croatian and Hungarian congregation.

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

[edit] External links

• Tovariševo
• Welcome to Tovariševo
• Zvanična prezentacija Tovariševa

Coordinates: 45°21′N, 19°19′E