Hrtkovci

Hrtkovci Хртковци
Village
The Orthodox church.
Hrtkovci
Coordinates: 44°53′N 19°46′E / 44.883°N 19.767°E / 44.883; 19.767
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Syrmia District
Municipality	Ruma
Population (2002)
• Total	3,428
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Hrtkovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Хртковци) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Ruma municipality, in the Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,428 people (2002 census). According to previous census (from 1991), the village had a Croat ethnic majority and its population numbered 2,684 people.

In Serbian, the village is known as Hrtkovci (Хртковци), in Croatian as Hrtkovci, and in Hungarian as Herkóca.

Modern village was firstly mentioned in 1714, during Ottoman administration. There are assumptions that some older settlements existed at this locality. These settlements were probably villages named Gomol (recorded in 1353) and Hudrovecz (recorded in 1477).

Since 1718, the village was part of the Habsburg Monarchy. It was firstly included into the Kingdom of Slavonia and then into the Military Frontier (Petrovaradin regiment). In 1737, about 1,600 Catholic Albanians from Klimenti clan came to Srem. They were settled in the villages of Hrtkovci and Nikinci. Today, their descendants consider themselves Croats.

In 1848-1849, the village was part of autonomous Serbian Vojvodina, but was returned to the jurisdiction of the Military Frontier in 1849. After the abolishment of the frontier, in 1882, the village was included into the autonomous Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, which was part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary. The village was administratively a part of the Ruma district within the Syrmia County. According to the etnographic map of the Austrian Monarchy, created by Karl Freiherrn von Czoernig and published in Wien in 1855, the village of Hrtkovci was predominately populated by ethnic Albanians.