Ratkovo

Ratkovo Ратково
Village
The Orthodox Church
Ratkovo
Coordinates: 45°27′N 19°20′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Population  (2002)
• Total	4,118
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Ratkovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратково) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Odžaci municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The population of the village is 4,118 people (2002 census), of whom 3,760 are ethnic Serbs.

Name

Its old name in Serbian was Parabuć (Парабућ). In German, it was known as Parabutsch, and in Hungarian as Paripás or Parabuty.

History

The village was mentioned first in 1543. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), Parabuć was populated by ethnic South Slavs. Since the end of the 17th century, the village belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy, and since 1781 many Germans settled here besides Serbs. Since 1918, the village was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states.

Historical population

• 1880: 4,209
• 1910: 4,073
• 1921: 4,084
• 2002: 4,118
• 2008: 5.230

Notable people

• Kaca Celan, writer, director and actress

See also

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

Gallery

• 
  Old house
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  The Saint John Nepomuk Catholic Church
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  The Saint Joseph Chapel in catholic graveyard

External links

• Ratkovo