Belo Blato
Belo Blato
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  Belo Blato Location within Serbia  Belo Blato Belo Blato (Serbia)  Belo Blato Belo Blato (Europe) | |
| Coordinates: 45°16′13″N 20°22′18″E / 45.27028°N 20.37167°E | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Province |  Vojvodina |
| District | Central Banat |
| Municipalities | Zrenjanin |
| Elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 1,034 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 23205 |
| Area code | +381(0)23 |
| Car plates | ZR |
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 administrative area of the City of Zrenjanin, Central Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 1,034 people (2022 census).
Name
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.
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. 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.
Demographics
Historical population
- 1961: 2,031
- 1971: 1,841
- 1981: 1,746
- 1991: 1,762
- 2002: 1,477
- 2011: 1,342
- 2022: 1,034
Ethnic groups
According to data from the 2022 census, ethnic groups in the village include:[2]
- 349 (33.7%) Slovaks
- 318 (30.7%) Hungarians
- 159 (15.3%) Serbs
- 52 (5%) Bulgarians
- Others/Undeclared/Unknown
See also
References
- ^ "POPIS 22 - EXCEL TABLE". Republic of Serbia. October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/serbia-ethnic-loc2022.htm
- "Belo Blato" (in Serbian). Official presentation of city of Zrenjanin. Archived from the original on 2010-05-04.
- "Specijalni rezervat prirode "Stari Begej - Carska bara"" (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2011-07-13.
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
