The Municipality of Beltinci (; sl, Občina Beltinci) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur R ...

region of northeastern

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. Its seat is the settlement of Beltinci. The municipality has 8,256 inhabitants. It was a

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

under the name ''Balatin'' that initially belonged to the

Budin Eyalet Budin Eyalet (also known as Province of Budin/Buda or Pashalik of Budin/Buda, ota, ایالت بودین, Eyālet-i Budin) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire in Central Europe and the Balkans. It was formed on the te ...

, and later the

Kanije Eyalet The Kanije Eyalet ( ota, ایالت قنیژه; Eyālet-i Ḳanije) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire formed in 1600 and existing until the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. It included parts of present-day Hungary and Croatia ...

, during Ottoman rule before the

Treaty of Karlowitz The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed in Karlowitz, Military Frontier of Archduchy of Austria (present-day Sremski Karlovci, Serbia), on 26 January 1699, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1697 in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated by th ...

Settlements

In addition to the municipal seat of Beltinci, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Bratonci *

Dokležovje Dokležovje (; hu, Murahely or ''Deklezs'',Engelke, Edda, & Mateja Čoh. 2011. ''"Jeder Flüchtling ist eine Schwächung der Volksdemokratie": die illegalen Überschreitungen am jugoslawisch-steirischen Grenzabschnitt in den Fünfzigerjahren.'' Vi ...

* Gančani * Ižakovci * Lipa *

Lipovci Lipovci (; hu, Hársliget) is a village in the Municipality of Beltinci in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. There is a small Gothic Revival architecture, Neo-Gothic chapel in the settlement. It was built in the early 20th century a ...

* Melinci

References

External links

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Municipality of Beltinci on Geopedia

Beltinci municipal site
{{Authority control Beltinci Beltinci 1994 establishments in Slovenia