Parage () is a village located in the Bačka Palanka municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,039 people (2002 census).
Name In Serbian, the village is known as Parage (Параге), in Croatian as Parage, and in Hungarian as Parrag.
History Since its foundation, the village was mainly inhabited by Serbs. First historical source citing Parage dates back to 1473. At the end of 18th century village with entire population was moved 4 km to north, due to high ground-water levels, but also to make space for expansion of Gajdobra, place colonised with Germans by Austrian monarchy.
Historical population
YearInhabitants 1722 51 households 1788 88 households 1875 1,151 1905 1,466 1961 1,338 1971 1,306 1981 1,199 1991 1,134 2002 1,039 2011 921
Trivia Prominent Serbian national songs author from 19th century, Filip Višnjić is said to have been visited Parage in 1812. Railroad connecting Novi Sad and Sombor was made near Parage in 1890.
Notable natives/residents Charles Alverson, British-American writer spent almost a decade living in Parage, before moving to Belgrade Miodrag Radulovacki, Professor of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago
References Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. Dušan N. Petrović, Parage - selo u Bačkoj, Novi Sad, 2004.
See also List of places in Serbia List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina