Kać Explained

Kać
Native Name Lang:sr
Settlement Type:Selo
Pushpin Map:Serbia Novi Sad#Serbia Vojvodina#Serbia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Novi Sad
Coordinates:45.3°N 76°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Serbia
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:South Bačka
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:74.87
Population As Of:2011
Population Total:11740
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset1:+1
Timezone1 Dst:CEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+381(0)21
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:NS

Kać is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The town had a population of 11,612 in the 2011 census.

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).

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Насеља општине Нови Сад . stat.gov.rs . Statistical Office of Serbia . 23 October 2019 . sr . pdf . 21 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201121083341/https://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/Registar/SlikeRegioni/Mapiranemape/BG%20i%20VOJ/ReNoviSad.pdf . dead .