Belo Blato

Geobox Settlement
name = Belo Blato
Бело Блато
Biele Blato
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country = Serbia
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region = Central Banat
region_type = District
district = Zrenjanin
district_type = Municipality
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postal_code = 23205
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area_code = +381 23
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website = Belo Blato ( _sr. Бело Блато or "Belo Blato", _sk. Biele Blato" or "Lízika, _hu. Nagyerzsébetlak, _bg. Бело блато, traditional Banat Bulgarian name: "Lizinájt", [cite journal|last=Bidwell|first=Charles E.|date=1961-1962|title=Neke beleške o bugarskom narečju banatskog sela Belo Blato|journal=Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku|publisher=Matica srpska|location=Novi Sad|pages=pp. 29-33|language=Serbian] _de. Elisenheim) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 1,477 people (2002 census).

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the village include:
* 583 (39.47%) Slovaks
* 488 (33.04%) Hungarians
* 128 (8.67%) Bulgarians
* 118 (7.99%) Serbs
* others.

Slovaks and Hungarians in the village still speak their native languages and nestle their national cultures, while Bulgarians do not have school classes in their language, which is slowly disappearing.

History

Belo Blato was settled in 1883 by Slovak people from the village of Padina (in south Banat), where Slovaks from Slovakia settled several years earlier. They left their homes because Slovak people were very oppressed from the Hungarian reign. These Slovaks were poor but very active. After few years, they built in a new village the new Evangelical church, house for priest, school for children, and mill. Soon after Slovaks, the Hungarian and Bulgarian settlers settled in Belo Blato as well. They came from neighbouring villages of Mužlja and Lukino Selo.

Historical population

*1961: 2,031
*1971: 1,841
*1981: 1,746
*1991: 1,762
*2002: 1,477

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/YI/2/Belo_Blato.html Belo Blato]