Bajmok

Bajmok Бајмок Bajmok
Village
Street in Bajmok, the Catholic Church, and bell-tower of the Orthodox church
Bajmok
Coordinates: 45°58′N 19°25′E / 45.967°N 19.417°E / 45.967; 19.417
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Bajmok (Serbian Cyrillic: Бајмок; Hungarian: Bajmok, pronounced [ˈbɒjmok]) is a village located in the Subotica municipality, in the North Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village is ethnically mixed and its population was 8,586 at the 2002 census.

In Serbian Cyrillic the village is known as Бајмок, in Serbian Latin as Bajmok, in Hungarian as Bajmok, in Bunjevac as Bajmok or Bajmak, in Croatian as Bajmak (since 2009) or Bajmok (before 2009), and in German as Nagelsdorf.

The first written documents relating to Bajmok came from the fifteenth century. Then the village was for the first time officially mentioned as a village. King Matthias gave it to his mother, Erzebet Szilágyi. The deed of donation was confirmed on 16 February 1462.

During Ottoman administration (16th-17th century), two villages with this name were mentioned: Bajmok and Novi Bajmok. Both villages had about 20 houses. Population was composed of ethnic Serbs. These villages existed until the beginning of the 18th century when they were abandoned.

The village was rebuilt between 1770 and 1785. In this time, settlers were mainly Bunjevci and Hungarians. At the time of the Hungarian revolution, in the fields of this village there was a conflict between the Hungarian and the Vojvodinian Serb army, won by the Hungarians. In 1910, population of the village was mainly composed of Hungarians, Bunjevci and Germans, with some Serbs living there as well.