Beočin

Beočin

Infobox Serbia municipality
native_name = Беочин|official_name=Beočin
image_shield = Grb_beocin.gif
mayor = Zoran Tešić
district = South Bačka
area_km2 = 186
population_total = 8058
mpop=16086
latd = 45| latm = 12|longd = 19| longm = 44
code = 21
settlements = 8
plates = NS
postal_code= 21300
website = www.sobeocin.org.yu

Beočin (Беочин) is a town and municipality in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. The population of the town is 8,037, whilst Beočin's municipality population is 16,029. There is also a Beočin Monastery from the 16th century in the municipality.

Name

In Serbian, the town is known as "Beočin" (Беочин), in Croatian as "Beočin", and in Hungarian as "Belcsény".

The name of the town derived from the word that came from local Serbian dialect, which in modern standard Serbian would be written as "beli otac" or in English as "white father" (the full meaning of the name is "the place that belong to white father"). The name referred to the prior of the nearby Beočin monastery.

Geography

Although, it is geographically located in Syrmia, Beočin administrativelly belong to South Bačka District. The town of Beočin is divided into two parts: Beočin Grad ("Beočin town") and Beočin Selo ("Beočin village"). However, no matter that Beočin Selo is called a village, it is not a village but simply part of the town.

History

Beočin was mentioned first in 1702. In the beginning it was only a village, and its basic economic activity was vine production (even today part of the Beočin is known as Beočin Selo, i.e. "Beočin village" in English). After the cement factory was opened, Beočin developed into a modern town, which became the centre of the northern Syrmia. The cement factory in Beočin is one of the largest cement factories in Europe. During the Axis occupation in WWII, 66 civilians were killed in Beočin by fascists.

Historical population of the town

*1961: 5,145
*1971: 6,563
*1981: 7,298
*1991: 7,873

Inhabited places

Beočin municipality encompasses of town of Beočin, and the following villages:

*Banoštor
*Grabovo
*Lug
*Rakovac
*Sviloš
*Susek
*Čerević

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Beočin municipality:
* Serbs (68.17%)
* Roma (6.51%)
* Slovaks (5.96%)
* Yugoslavs (5.35%)
* Croats (4.7%)
* Hungarians (1.79%)

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority, while the village of Lug have an ethnic Slovak majority.

Politics

Seats in the municipal parliament won in the 2004 local elections: [http://www.cesid.org/lokalni2004/rezultati.jsp?opstina=80101]
*Serbian Radical Party (11)
*Democratic Party (5)
*Socialistic People's Party (4)
*Democratic Party of Serbia (3)
*Serbian Strength Movement (3)
*G17 Plus (3)
*Socialdemocratic party of Roma in Serbia (2)
*New Serbia (2)

Twin Cities

* Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Republic of Srpska since 1982.
*flagicon|Slovakia Nováky, Slovakia
*flagicon|Hungary Battonya, Hungary

References

*Miloš Lukić, Putevima slobode - naselja opštine Beočin u ratu i revoluciji, Novi Sad, 1987.
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

ee also

* Syrmia
* List of places in Serbia
* List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

External links

* [http://www.sobeocin.org.yu/ www.sobeocin.org.yu]
* [http://www.beocingrad.com/ www.beocingrad.com]
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/YI/2/Beocin.html Beočin]


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