Country Serbia Elevation 68 m (223 ft) Postal code 23205 Population 1,477 (2002) Province Vojvodina | District Central Banat Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area code(s) +381(0)23 Local time Thursday 6:24 PM | |
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Weather 10°C, Wind SE at 6 km/h, 55% Humidity | ||
iveli mid course in belo blato a good place for a toast
Belo Blato 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).
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- iveli mid course in belo blato a good place for a toast
- Map of Belo Blato Serbia
- Nature at belo blato
- Name
- Ethnic groups 2002 census
- History
- Historical population
- References
Map of Belo Blato, Serbia
Nature at belo blato
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.
Ethnic groups (2002 census)
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
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.