It was first mentioned in 1305 under the name of Battyan, while in 1341 it was mentioned as Betsan. The village was destroyed during an Ottoman invasion in the 16th century. With the establishment of Habsburg rule, the village was settled by Hungarians, Poles, Czechs and Germans. The first church in the village was built in 1755, and the current one was constructed in 1846.
Demographics
Historical population
1961: 6,813
1971: 6,427
1981: 6,085
1991: 5,472
2002: 5,263
2011: 4,623
Ethnic groups
The ethnic groups in the village as of 2002 census:
^"Насеља општине Сомбор"(PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Archived from the original(pdf) on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.