Novi Bečej

Novi Bečej
Novi Bečej
Нови Бечеј
—  Municipality and Town  —
Serbian Orthodox church in Novi Bečej
Location of the municipality of Novi Bečej within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°36′N 20°07′E / 45.6°N 20.117°E / 45.6; 20.117
Country Serbia
District Central Banat
Settlements 4
Government
 - Mayor Milivoj Vrebalov (LDP)
Area[1]
 - Municipality 609 km2 (235.1 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)[2]
 - Town 14,452
 - Municipality 26,924
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 23272
Area code +381 23
Car plates ZR
Website www.novibecej.rs
Map of Novi Bečej municipality
Ruins of the medieval Catholic church of Arača (Aracs) near Novi Bečej.

Novi Bečej (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Бечеј), is a town and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 14,406, while Novi Bečej municipality has 26,881 inhabitants.

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Name

Its name means "new Bečej". In the past it was known simply as "Bečej", while the current town of Bečej, across the river Tisa, was in the past known as "Stari Bečej" ("old Bečej") and today is known as "Bečej".

In Serbian, the town is known as Novi Bečej (Нови Бечеј), in Hungarian as Törökbecse, in Croatian as Novi Bečej, and in German as Neu-Betsche.

Serbian and Hungarian language are officially used by municipal authorities.

History

12th century BC ornitho-morphic pendants were found in the town. The Dacians inhabited the region before the Roman conquest in the 2nd-1st Century BC.

The town was first mentioned in 1091 during the Hungarian Kingdom. In the 15th century, it was a possession of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. During the Ottoman rule (in 1660/6), it was populated by ethnic Serbs. Ottomans managed her as "Beçe" between 1552-1718. Until 1918 its part of the Hungarian Kingdom, after it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states except German occupation between 1941-1944.

Inhabited places

Novi Bečej municipality includes the town of Novi Bečej and the following villages:

Demographics (2002 census)

Ethnic groups in the Novi Bečej municipality

All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Ethnic groups in the Novi Bečej town

Historical population of the town

  • 1961: 16,378
  • 1971: 16,075
  • 1981: 16,091
  • 1991: 15,404
  • 2002: 14,452

Twin cities

See also

References

  1. ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/en/Zip/OG2006webE.zip. Retrieved 2010-11-28. 
  2. ^ (in Serbian) Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Statistical Office of Serbia. 2003. ISBN 86-84443-00-09.  May be downloaded from: [1]
  • Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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