Banoštor

Banoštor , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Баноштор and in Hungarian hu Bánmonostor, is a village of Serbia located in the autonomous province of Voïvodine. It belongs to the municipality of Beočin in the district of Bačka Southerner. In 2002, it counted 780 inhabitants, including 732 Serbes (93,84%) and 17 Croatian (2,17%).

Banoštor is located at the foot of the Fruška Gora and on the edges of the the Danube. The name of the village means “the monastery of the round of applause”. It holds this name of a founded monastery with this site at the 12th century by Beluš, the son of Uroš I, which was round of applause of Syrmie of 1142 with 1163.

History

With the site of the current village was a Celtic locality called Malata . It was conquered by the Romains which gave him the name of Bononia and which made a fortified town of it.

During the Second world war, many Serbes of this area was carried out with the Concentration camp of Jasenovac by the Croatian Oustachis and the Nazis.

Demography

In 1948, the village counted 706 inhabitants, in 1981 650 and, in 1991, 618.

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