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Belo Blato

Coordinates: 45°16′13″N 20°22′18″E / 45.27028°N 20.37167°E / 45.27028; 20.37167
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Belo Blato
Бело Блато (Serbian)
Biele Blato (Slovak)
Erzsébetlak (Hungarian)
Belo Blato is located in Vojvodina
Belo Blato
Belo Blato
Location of Belo Blato within Serbia
Belo Blato is located in Serbia
Belo Blato
Belo Blato
Belo Blato (Serbia)
Belo Blato is located in Europe
Belo Blato
Belo Blato
Belo Blato (Europe)
Coordinates: 45°16′13″N 20°22′18″E / 45.27028°N 20.37167°E / 45.27028; 20.37167
CountrySerbia
ProvinceVojvodina
DistrictCentral Banat
Elevation
68 m (223 ft)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total1,034
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
23205
Area code+381(0)23
Car platesZR

Belo Blato (Serbian Cyrillic: Бело Блато; Slovak: Biele Blato or Lízika; Hungarian: Erzsébetlak, Nagyerzsébetlak, Torontálerzsébetlak, Nagyerzsébetlak-Lízika or Szlovák Lízika) 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).

Name

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In Serbian the village is known as Belo Blato (Бело Блато), in Slovak as Biele Blato or Lízika, in Hungarian as Nagyerzsébetlak, in Banat Bulgarian as Belo-Blato and Liznájt, and in German as Elisenheim.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

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Street name sign, Marshal Tito Street, in Serbian, Slovak, and Hungarian languages, in Belo Blato.

The population of the village include:

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

History

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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. 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

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  • 1961: 2,031
  • 1971: 1,841
  • 1981: 1,746
  • 1991: 1,762
  • 2002: 1,477
  • 2011: 1,342
  • 2022: 1,034

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "POPIS 22 - EXCEL TABLE". Republic of Serbia. October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2024.