Beočin

Beočin , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Беочин, is a city and a municipality of Serbia located in the autonomous province of Voïvodine. They belong to the district of Bačka Southerner. In 2002, the city counted: 8058 inhabitants and the municipality of which it is the center: 16086, of which a majority of Serb.

Although integrated in the district of Bačka Southerner, Beočin belongs to the area of the Syrmie.

History

In local dialect, the name of the city derives from a word meaning the " father blanc" , in reference to the Monastery of close Beočin.

Beočin is mentioned for the first time in 1702. The city experienced a fast development when there intalla a cement factory which is one of largest of Europe.

Localities of the municipality of Beočin

Beočin
Banoštor
Grabovo
Lug
Rakovac
Sviloš
Susek
Čerević

Demography

City

Historical evolution of the population

1948 : : 3639
1953 : : 4082
1961 : : 5145
1971 : : 6563
1981 : : 7298
1991 : : 7873
2002 : : 8058.

Pattern of the settlement in the city (2002)

Serb: : 4695 (58,26%)
Roms: : 1019 (12,64%)
Yugoslav: 693 (8,6%)
Croatian: 507 (6,29%)
Hungarian: 182 (2,25%)
Slovak: 96 (1,19%)
Slovenien: 75 (0,93%)
Montenegrins: 56 (0,69%)
Ruthènes: 25 (0,31%)
German: 24 (0,28%)
Musulmans (nationality): 21 (0,26%)
Macedonians: 19 (0,23%)
Albanian: 16 (0,19%)
Rumanian: 8 (0,09%)
Czech: 5 (0,06%)
Bosnian: 3 (0,03%)
Russian: 2 (0,02%)
Bulgarian: 1 (0,01)
Others.

Municipality

Pattern of the settlement in the municipality (2002)

Serb (68,17%)
Roms (6,51%)
Slovak (5,96%)
Yugoslav (5,35%)
Croatian (4,7%)
Hungarian (1,79%)
Others:
Serb Radical party: 11
Democratic party: 5
Socialist party of Serbia: 4
Democratic party of Serbia: 3
Mouvement Forces of Serbia: 3
G17+: 3
Left social democrat Roms of Serbia: 2
New Serbia: 2

Twinnings

Ugljevik, Bosnia-Herzégovine, Serb Republic of Bosnia since 1982.
Nováky , Slovakia
Battonya , Hungary

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