Gložan

Gložan (Serbian Cyrillic: Гложан, Slovak: Hložany, Hungarian: Dunagálos) is a village located in the Bački Petrovac municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village numbering 2.283 people (2002 census), of whom 1.985 are ethnic Slovaks.

The Municipality of Backi Petrovac lies on the banks of the Danube River on 1284 km, in the settlement Gložan. On the territory of the municipality has been performed researches and it was confirmed the presence of thermal waters. Flatland of Vojvodina conditions a low flora, while the band can come across the Danube and the woods. Glozan directly borders with the special park Begečka jama, which is a natural oasis of rare plant species and a place inhabited by protected species of birds.

The Municipality of Backi Petrovac is a multiethnic and multicultural environment; the majority of the population is Slovak nationality (66.42%), Serbian nationality (25.74%) and others (7.84%).

In the year 1791^st was lost all trace of the fort Onagrinum from 284^th which was built by the Diocletian, Roman emperor (284 -305) on the site of today's Gložan. On the territory of Gložan ahead a time of Tatar invasion (1241^st) there were two settlements Drag (Dragovo) and Telek. In Turkey's notebook from the 1556^th, is mentioned Galožan village with 16 houses, and a few years later, in the 1561^st there was already 28 houses. After signing the Karlovacki Peace in 1699^th was mentioned as a wasteland. In the 1720^th population census was taken in Backa region, and in the settlement the majority of the population were Serbs, and about 95% Bunjevci. In that period similar situation was in the Banat region. Since the 1749^th village has a post office and station. In the seventeenth century is inhabited by Serbs, who in the 1733^rd have 95 houses and two priests. Slovaks began a sporadic settlement from the 1740^th, but as the official date they took 1756^th, when Slovaks are coming in greater numbers in the Gložan Futog property. Most immigrants came from Novohrad, Hont, Piešćan and Békés. Settlers signed a contract with the co-owners of Futog holding to Carnojevici in 3^rd May 1759.

Evangelical Church in Gložan

In 1780^th the residents of Gložan have already requested a permission to organize the church choir, but this request was rejected. However, Joseph II has issued the Patent of Tolerance 1781^st, by which every settlement with more than 100 families receive opportunities "to support the priest and can build a church." The first priest Petar Jesenski comes in Gložan on 24^th May 1786, along with Štefan Šomod and Pavle Slobod. With the arrival of these people starts cultural learnings of settlements Gložan. The inhabitants in 1791^st were starting to gather the materials to begin construction. Foundation stone for the church is collected at a nearby location, a Roman "Castrum Onagrinum" which of these time unaccounted for. The temple was consecrated in 1797^th by the priest of Backi Petrovac Ondrej Stehlo. The new altar was built by Jakub Šmaus during the 1812^th and 1813^th year. Great reconstructions were performed in 1924^th and the end of the twentieth century.

Orthodox Church in Gložan

Orthodox Church in Gložan was mentioned in the documents back in the eighteenth century. The present church building was built in 1839. The interior is modestly decorated, icon painting do not have a greater artistic value. More value icon is a gift from Petar Vasilić from Cib in Celarevo, which dates from the 1856^th. The temple is dedicated to John the Baptist. Church books were conducted from the 1868^th to 1889^th. In statistics, the visible trend shows the decline in the number of Serbian population, which usually moves in the Cib and Begeš. At the end of the nineteenth century was mentioned Gložan Church School. Serbian Orthodox Church was extremely active to the end of The Second World War, but after that period most Serbs moved out to surrounding villages.

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