Šuvakov salaš

At the very beginning of the second millennium, Hungarians receive Christianity and form a strong earry feudal Hungarian state. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Christianity occupies the leading position in the life of the then inhabitants of Vojvodina and the Danube region. In many rural settlements from that period, the spatial relationship between the settlement, the necropolis, and the church is established. 

During the baptism in the 9th century, Cyril and Methodius have a huge mission and  monastic orders and the Eastern and Western rites.  And when the western ritual becomes a dominent one,  until the 15th century, there will be monasteries of the eastern - Greek ritual, which the Slovenian  population will hardly leave.

Vrbas was administered by the Hungarian administrative centers Bač and Bodrog, the administrative units of the same name - the parish, from 11th until the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, when a new military-political organization was established after the Turkish conquest. During this period, at the site of the Šuvakov Salas, a settlement was established and developed as the first Vrbas.

The archaeological research carried out at the Šuvakov salaš site showed that it was a medieval, the first Vrbas, located on the right bank of the Crna bara (The Black Pond). It is a village with a church and a necropolis. Life in the settlement follows from the tenth to the beginning of the 16th century.

Houses in the medieval settlement on the Šuvakov salaš, from the 14th to the early 16th century, were built of braids and dresses, with details and bricks. Some were deeply buried in the ground, and some above ground, arranged in rows, followed the contour of the southern coast of the Crna bara (The Black Pond).

The main activity in the settlement was farming, that is, the cultivation of cereals that were stored in silos, dug into the loess and in a depth of 5 meters. They are covered with small trinkets. 

Ceramics are made on a slow and fast-rotating winch, and the shapes are clogged pots, sludges, lids, kettles, as well as ovens that are built into the oven, thereby increasing the possibility of heat radiating. 

Money, glass and jewelry, found in the settlement and necropolises, testify the connections with the remote centers of the Pannonian Basin. As a result of the arrival of the Turskih detachments, a defensive trench was dug up that surrounded the church  with palisades.

Two palisades made of wooden pillars and bullets defended the interstice - a corridor that connected the church with the Crna bara (The Black Pond) coast. In this way, the supply was also carried out, as well as the withdrawal from the burned and destroyed church. In the second half of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century the settlement was burnt, which would continue to live upstream in the north and then on both banks of the Crna bara.

The medieval site at the archaeological site of Šuvakov salaš-Klisa is connected with Orbaspalotaya, which is mentioned in written sources for the first time in 1387. Queen Mary of Anžujska (1382-1485), as a sign of gratitude, donated Ban of Mačva, to Nikola II Gorjanski (1367-1433), several possessions, among which was Orbaspalotaya. 

Nikola II Gorjanski, established relations with the Serbian prince Lazar (1329-1389), married his daughter, Theodore. In marriage, between 1387 and 1389, Teodora and Nikola II got a son of Nikola III Gorjanski.