Bikač is a settlement (hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

) in the Kikinda

Kikinda

Kikinda is a town and a municipality located in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the North Banat District. The town has 42,000 inhabitants, while the municipality has approximately 67,000 inhabitants.The modern city was founded in 18th century...

 municipality, Republic of Serbia

Serbia

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. Officially, Bikač is not classified as a separate settlement, but as a part of the village of Bašaid

Bašaid

Bašaid is a village located in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat District of the Republic of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has an ethnic Serb majority and a population of 3,503...

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History

In 1422, the hamlet of Bikač was the estate of a family of the same name. After its destruction by the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 army, it was recorded again on maps from 1761. In 1804, 40 Hungarian families arrived at the settlement, followed by another 60 families a decade later.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the hamlet consisted of 70 households, inhabited by 239 Germans and 154 Hungarians.
According to a census from 1971, the population of Bikač was 324.