Raci 2380683 223814687 2008-07-05T23:08:43Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other :''For other meanings, see [[Raci (disambiguation)|Raci/RACI]] and [[RAC|Rac/RAC]] (disambiguation pages)'' '''Raci''' (Раци, ''Rác'', ''Rácok'', ''Ratzen'', ''Ratzians'', ''Rasciani'', ''Rascians'') was a name used to designate [[Serbs]] in Middle Ages and the early modern times. The name was primary used by [[Hungarians]] and [[Germans]] and it derived from the name of medieval Serbian principality – [[Raška (state)|Raška]] ([[Rascia]]) <ref>[http://www.rastko.org.yu/istorija/srbi-balkan/jkalic-raska.html [Projekat Rastko&#93; Jovanka Kalic - Rascia - The Nucleus of the Medieval Serbian State<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. The southern parts of the Pannonian Plain were also named ''Raška'' (''Rascia'' in Latin or ''Ráczság'' in Hungarian). ==History of usage== Since the 15th century, the Serbs made up a large percentage of the population on the territory of present-day [[Vojvodina]]. Because of this, many historical sources and maps, which were written and drawn between 15th and 18th centuries, mention the territory of present-day Vojvodina under the names of ''Rascia'' (Raška) and ''Little Raška''. The name ''Rascia'' was also used to designate parts of [[Slavonia]] populated by Serbs. According to one historical record from 1543, [[Timişoara]] and [[Arad, Romania|Arad]] were located in the middle of ''Rascia'' (''in medio Rascionarum''). In official Habsburg documents from the 18th century the people of Vojvodina were mentioned as ''Nation Rasciana'' ("Rascian nation"). During the [[Kuruc]] War (1703-1711) of [[Francis II Rakoczi]], the territory of present-day Vojvodina was a battlefield between Hungarian soliders and Bunjevci who fought on the side of the Habsburg Emperor. Darvas, the prime military commander of these soldiers and knights, which fought against rebels in Vojvodina, wrote: ''We burned all large places of Rascia, on the both banks of the rivers [[Danube]] and [[Tisa]]''. When the representatives of the Vojvodinian rebels negotiated with the Hungarian leader [[Lajos Kossuth]] in 1848, they asked him not to call them ''Raci'', because they regard this name insulting. The initial name of the city of [[Novi Sad]] (''Ratzen Stadt'') has also derived from the name ''Raci''. The [[Tabán]] quarter of [[Budapest]] was also called ''Rácváros'' in the 18th-19th centuries. Since the 19th century, the term ''Raci'' is no longer widely used. ==Literature== *Drago Njegovan, Prisajedinjenje Vojvodine Srbiji, Novi Sad, 2004. *Milan Tutorov, Mala Raška a u Banatu, Zrenjanin, 1991. *Rascia, Časopis o Srbima u Vojvodini, godina I, broj 1, Vršac, Maj 1996. *Lazo M. Kostić, Srpska Vojvodina i njene manjine, Novi Sad, 1999. ==See also== * [[Serbs]] * [[Raška (state)]] * [[Rascia]] * [[History of Vojvodina]] * [[History of Serbia]] == References == <references/> ==External links== * [http://mapmogul.com/catalog/images/JR0195.jpg Map from 1661 showing name ''Rascia'' in Banat and Syrmia] * [http://www.imus.org.yu/eimus0038.htm The Serbs outside Serbia - a preservation of cultural identity] * [http://www.jasatomic.org.yu/?postid=1166 Jaša Tomić - Monografija mesta] ==Maps== <gallery> Image:Rascia Banat01.jpg|Map from 1590, in which name Rascia is located in Banat Image:Rascia Banat02.jpg|Map from the first half of the 17th century, in which name Rascia is located in Banat Image:Rasciani Banat.JPG|Map of Banat with the name Rasciani Image:Ratzen Stadt01.jpg|Map of Novi Sad (Ratzen Stadt) from 1745 </gallery> [[Category:History of Vojvodina]] [[Category:History of Serbia]] [[Category:Serbian people]] [[bg:Расци]] [[hu:Rácok]] [[sr:Раци]]