The beautiful Hungarian Art Nouveau-styled Raichle’s Palace, built in 1904, lies in the town of Subotica in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia.

It was designed and built by Serbo-Hungarian architect Ferenc Raichle as a family mansion and today houses the Modern Art Gallery of Subotica.

Incidentally, Subotica seems to mean something like ‘daughter/maiden of Saturday’ judging by the apparent Serbo-Croatian components ‘Subot(a)-‘ (Saturday) and ‘-ica’ (young female).

On the other hand, the respective Hungarian name for the town of Szabadka means something like ‘daughter/child of freedom’ out of the Slavic borrowing ‘svabad(a)-‘ (free/freedom) and the suffix ‘-ka’ (young/little).

It has been suggested that the Hungarian equivalent probably derives on the earliest attested ‘Zabotka/Zabatka’ way back in 1391 AD.

The town lay under Hungarian or Austro-Hungarian hold most of the way, the Ottomans taking over between 1542 and 1686, as well as being mostly Hungarian-populated before it was eventually annexed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia initially in 1920 and then again in 1944.