Belo Blato ( sr-cyr, Бело Блато; sk, Biele Blato or ; hu, Erzsébetlak, , , or ) is a village located in the

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...

municipality, in the

Central Banat District The Central Banat District ( sr, Средњобанатски округ, Srednjobanatski okrug, ; hu, Közép-bánsági körzet) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It lies in the geogr ...

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. It is situated in the autonomous province of

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. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 1,477 people (2002 census).

Name

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the

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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

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as ''Elisenheim''.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the village include: * 583 (39.47%)

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

* 488 (33.04%)

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the ...

* 128 (8.67%)

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely underst ...

* 118 (7.99%)

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* others. 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

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), where Slovaks from

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settled several years earlier. These Slovaks were poor but very active. After few years, they built in a new village the new

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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 Mužlja ( sr-cyr, Мужља; hu, Muzslya) is a neighborhood of the Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative ...

and

Lukino Selo Lukino Selo ( sr-Cyrl, Лукино Село, hu, Lukácsfalva, german: Lukasdorf) 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 ...

Historical population

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

References

* * *Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. {{Authority control Populated places in Serbian Banat Zrenjanin Banat Bulgarian people