Ravno Selo is a typical Bačka village. It's the furthest from the municipal center of Vrbas, but it also offers the best connection to the western parts of Bačka and the Republic of Croatia. It lies between Kulpin and Zmajevo, or as Samu Borovsky, the author of the Bačka county monograph, put it: "Stare Šove (as the village was called until 1946) lies in the Novi Sad district between Kulpin and Stari Ker (Zmajevo)." The legend of this village's origin states that it was founded in the 15th century, with the first written records dating back to the late 15th century, specifically between 1484 and 1502. One of the owners of this area was the Hungarian nobleman Egeriš Idečkij, after whom the Jegrička River, which flows through the village, was named.
The very origin of the village is marked by three significant settlements that, over time, merged into a single village at its current location. These "villages" were: Male Šove, Alpar, and Paška. The village of Šove (now Ravno Selo), like the entire Bačka region, was part of the Hungarian state until the Battle of Mohács in 1526, when it became part of the Ottoman Empire. After 1699 and the Treaty of Karlowitz, Bačka, and thus the village of Šove, once again found itself within the Hungarian state. From 1918, the village of Šove, along with all of Bačka, was annexed to the state of Serbia. Following the colonization organized in 1945, the village's demographic structure changed, and its name was changed to Ravno Selo. Today, this "typical Bačka village" has just over 3,000 inhabitants, with a majority Serbian population, alongside Montenegrins, Macedonians, Hungarians, Croats, Roma, and others.
Boro Vojinović,
Curator - Historian
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