 The village was administratively a part of the Ruma district within the Syrmia County.According to the ethnographic map of the Austrian Monarchy, created by Karl Freiherrn von Czoernig and published in Wien in 1855, the village of Hrtkovci was predominately populated by ethnic Albanians.According to 1910 census, the village was ethnically mixed and the largest linguistic group were the speakers of Croatian language (1,144).