Selenča (, , ) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bač municipality, South Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village had a population of 2,996 according to the 2011 census, with an overwhelming Slovak ethnic majority (over 90%). Location Selenča is located in the Bačka region, in the South Bačka District , seated in Novi Sad, also the provincial capital. It is situated northeast from Bač, its municipal seat, and northwest of the capital Belgrade. It is bounded by the village of Ratkovo on the north, Parage on the east, Tovariševo on the south, Deronje on the northwest and the town of Bač on the west and southwest. Geography The village is located on the diluvial terrace, at an altitude of , north of the Karavukovo-Bački Petrovac canal, part of the Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal. Channeled river Mostonga is to the west. The Bač Fishpond is located west of the village, while the protected reserve of the Karađorđevo hunting ground is just to the southwest. History It is known that the surrounding area was inhabited prior to the 1526 Battle of Mohacs. The settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1590, during the Ottoman period, under the name of Selence. It was a small village of 26 houses, inhabited by the Serbs. The contract which established the Slovak settlement was signed in 1758. At that time, the Slovaks were migrating from the northern sections of Hungary, at that time part of Austria, into the fertile southern parts, modern Vojvodina. In that first year, vital records show that 9 babies were born. The original Slovak settlers were Evangelicals, but due to the religious skirmishes they were forced out later. Another wave of Slovak settlers from Slovakia, this time Roman Catholic ones, settled into the empty houses. The migration waves dwindled by the end of the 18th century. By the end of the 18th century an arranged settlement with proper streets developed. The electricity reached the village in 1908 and the phone lines in 1937. In 1985 the central communal water supply system was finished. Name There are two major theories on the origin of the village name. One, which claims that the toponym Selenča is a diminutive of the word selo, a generic Slavic term for a village in general. The other theory says that it marks the place of migration (seliti se, selište). Administration With the rest of