The village of Stanišić is located in the Northwestern part of Serbia in the municipality of Sombor, about 7 miles from the Hungarian border between Riđica, Gakovo, Svetozar Miletić and Aleksa Šantić.

In the times prior to the 18th and 19th centuries the whole area beside the plateau (towards Kruševlje and Gakovo) was in fens, morasses and swampy meadows, especially in the raining seasons, and thus inconvenient for settling.

They could have been Hungarians or Serbs, as this area was a part of the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th Century until 1526, when the Turks conquered it and expelled most of its former population to the north.

In 1658 this area was written down as puszta, meaning in Hungarian only a wasted, deserted land and belonging to Baron Pál Serényi.

As the Turks were defeated and banished from these parts of Pannonian plain in 1687, the new Austrian authorities populated this area with Serbs, Croats (Bunjevci) and Hungarians, but there is again no evidence that Stanišić was settled down.

The name of Stanišić (Stanicic) was recorded in 1635 and it was a depopulated place, since in 1598 all Serb population from that area emigrated to Esztergom in Hungary.

Some old settlements were repopulated with Serbs, Hungarians and Croats (Bunjevci) after 1690 and in the early 18th century close to today's Stanišić position, such as Sombor, Riđica, Bački Breg, Monoštor, Šari (near Aleksa Šantić), Gara, Dávod, Nagybaracska, Hercegszántó, Katymár, Csátalja, Csávoly, Bácsbokod (Bikity), Bácsborsód, Bácsalmás, Tavankut, Bajmok, Đurić, Đurđin, Rančevo, etc.

Other places, which are nearer to Stanišić, were settled later by German colonists, such as Kolut in 1757, Gakovo in 1763–67, Kruševlje in 1765–67 and Svetozar Miletić in 1748–52 by Hungarians and Croats (Bunjevci).

Again in 1746 the whole area surrounding today's Stanišić was called puszta and a part of the Trench of Sombor (Somborski šanac) serving just for cattle-pasture.

Baron Gyula Redl, who got the pusta Stanišić to its estate, populated it with some 152 Hungarian and Slovak families from the neighbouring villages in 1752.

There are reports that some Hungarian and Bunjevac families from Svetozar Miletić have settled down in Stanišić in 1752 and again in 1754, but most of them remained there only temporarily.

The immigrating population was of Serb origin, coming from the neighbouring villages of Dávod (Dautovo) and Nagybaracska (Baračka) (some 15 miles to the Northwest, now in Hungary), where they have been settled down as refugees from Serbia in the 1690s.

Anton von Cothmann, the Director of the Imperial Estates in this area and the Chief-Commissioner for colonization visited this land in 1763 and ordered Puszta Krusivle (Kruševlje), Priglewitz (Prigrevica), Kernei (Krnjaja / Kljajićevo) and Puszta Gakowa (Gakovo) to be settled down by Germans.

The Serb population was forced to move in Bački Brestovac, Stapar, Sivac, Deronje, Parabuć (now Ratkovo), Riđica and Stanišić.

According to lore, the name originated when the settlers were a long way into unknown area, walking on foot, thirsty, hungry and tired of truck-hauling, and pleading their leader to stop for a while just to take some rest.

As a part of Yugoslavia and Serbia from 1918, the original name was never changed, except during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II (1941–44).

In 1786, some 100 German families from a few years earlier established places like Csátalja, Gakovo, Kruševlje, Kolut and Nemesnádudvar settled down in Stanišić.

A great step forward was made in 1811, when both Serb and German parts of village were united in one and Stanišić was proclaimed a market-place by Emperor Franz I.

The deaths were registered in following camps: 171 person died in Gakova, 100 in Krusevlje, 103 in Stanischitsch itself, 43 in Sremska Mitrovica, 14 in Sombor, 2 in Miletic, 2 in Rudolfsgnad, 8 in Jarek, 1 in Karlsdorf, 1 in Karavukovo, and 1 in Bajmok.