Kula

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Kula (Konjic)

Kula (Cyrillic: Кула) is a village in the municipality of Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Coordinates: 43°36′24″N 17°56′46″E / 43.60667°N 17.94611°E / 43.60667; 17.94611

Kula, Serbia

Kula (Serbian Cyrillic: Кула) is a town and municipality in the West Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town Kula has a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 26,867, while the Kula municipality has a population of 43,101.

Name

In Serbian, the town is known as Kula (Кула); in Rusyn as Кула, in Hungarian as Kúla, in Croatian as Kula, in German as Kula or Wolfsburg, and in Turkish as Kula.

The name Kula means "tower" in Turkish and Serbian. In the 16th-17th century, a tower with Ottoman military garrison existed at this location, hence the name of the town. However it cannot be said for sure whether Ottoman Turks or local Serbs gave this name to the town.

History

In the middle of the 17th century, during Ottoman administration, two settlements with this name were mentioned - Gornja Kula and Donja Kula. These settlements were part of the Ottoman Sanjak of Segedin and were populated by ethnic Serbs. From the end of the 17th century, the region was under administration of the Habsburg Monarchy and two settlements were mentioned as Mala Kula and Velika Kula and were unpopulated. In 1714, there was a record about single settlement named Kula that had 14 houses. In 1733, the population of the settlement numbered 251 houses and its inhabitants were Serbs. Hungarians started to settle there in 1740 and Germans in 1780-1785.