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.
In Serbo-Croatian, the town is known as Kać or Каћ, in Hungarian as Káty, and in German as Katsch.
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).
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.
There are two new neighborhoods in Kać, Petrovdansko Naselje and the luxurious Sunčani Breg.
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.