Editing Subotica (section)

==Name==
The name of the city has changed frequently over time.<ref name="hist">[http://www.subotica.rs/index/page/id/42/lg/en/ History of Subotica] Retrieved 8 September 2022.</ref> The earliest known written name of the city was ''Zabotka''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/09500/09536/html/0002/7.html|title=Borovszky - Magyarország vármegyéi és városai|website=mek.oszk.hu}}</ref> or ''Zabatka'',<ref name="discoverserbia.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.discoverserbia.org/en/backa/subotica |title=Serbian Cities: Subotica |access-date=2011-03-30 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311153036/http://www.discoverserbia.org/en/backa/subotica |archive-date=2012-03-11 }}</ref> which dates from 1391. It is the origin of the current Hungarian name for the city ''"Szabadka"''.<ref name="discoverserbia.org"/> According to [[Petar Skok|Skok]], Szabadka originated from ''sobotka'', a [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] [[diminutive]] of ''sobota'', meaning "a place that had a market fair on Saturday" (like [[Szombathely]] or [[Nagyszombat]]), but its ending ''-ka'' was later replaced with ''-ica'', another Slavic diminutive, by the [[Bunjevci]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Skok | first=Petar | title=Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika | publisher=JAZU, Zagreb | year=1972 | volume=3 | page=299}}</ref> Other sources claim that the name "Szabadka" comes from the adjective szabad, which derived from the [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] word for "free" – svobod, referring to the status of the colonists settled in this zone by the Habsburg after the [[Battle of Zenta]].<ref>[https://archivum.arhivvojvodine.org.rs/review-czardas-carved-into-building-material-the-synagoguein-subotica/ Colonists settling the military buffer zone between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires] Retrieved 8 September 2022.</ref>

The town was named in the 1740s after [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], Archduchess of Austria. It was officially called ''Sent-Maria'' in 1743, but was renamed in 1779 as ''Maria-Theresiapolis''. These two official names were also spelled in several different ways (most commonly the [[German language|German]] ''Maria-Theresiopel'' or ''Theresiopel''), and were used in different languages.<ref name="hist"/>