Official Name: | Bapska |
Settlement Type: | Village (Selo) |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia Vukovar-Srijem County#Croatia#Europe |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 45.1972°N 19.2625°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Ilok |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 26.5 |
Elevation M: | 147 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 658 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 32235 Bapska |
Area Code: | +385 0(32) |
Bapska (Hungarian: Bábafalva, German: Bapskau) is a village in Croatia.
It is located south of Šarengrad (at the D2 highway) and north of Šid, Serbia.
In 1664 the village was raided by the Ottoman forces but was subsequently resettled.[2] The old village of Bapska was in 1730s located about two kilometres south from the contemporary village in the location know today as the Stara Bapska (Old Bapska).[2]
During the Croatian War of Independence the village became a part of the self proclaimed SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia. During the war special operations unit Crvene Beretke was stationed in the village where they often confronted local dissatisfaction and resistance due to their attitude towards civilian population.[3]
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Bapska had 1,642 inhabitants (in that time in two independent settlements: Bapska with pop. of 794 and Novak with pop. of 848), which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Note: Together with former settlement of Novak.
settlement | total | German | Slovak | Serbian | Slovene | Rusyn | others | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bapska | 794 | 514 | 127 | 91 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 1 | |
Novak | 848 | 549 | 221 | 24 | 25 | 25 | align="right" | - | 3 | 1 |
settlement | total | East. orthodox | Calvinists | Lutherans | Jewish | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bapska | 794 | 765 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 1 | align="right" | - |
Novak | 848 | 814 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |