 In 1787, population of Gakovo numbered 1,522 inhabitants.Until 1848, the village was part of the Batsch-Bodrog County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary.In 1848-49, the village was part of autonomous Serbian Vojvodina and from 1849-60 it was part of the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, which was a separate Habsburg crownland.