Dunavac (

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Cyrillic: Дунавац) is a

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of Belgrade, the capital of

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. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. The word literally means "Little

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Location

Dunavac is located in the northern,

Banat Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of ...

section of the municipality, 31 kilometer north of downtown Belgrade and 5 kilometer from the small town of Opovo, a municipal seat in the South Banat District in

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. The settlement is located on the ''Zrenjaninski put'' road, which connects Belgrade with the town of

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, Serbia ...

, also in Vojvodina.

Population

The settlement originated after 1947 when mass melioration works began in the marsh of

Pančevački Rit Pančevački Rit ( sr-cyr, Панчевачки рит) is a small geographical area in south-western Banat, Serbia. It is situated between the rivers Danube and Tamiš, in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Features Its wetland was const ...

, in the extreme northern part of which Dunavac is located. It is a small, slightly depopulating settlement with a population of 618 by the 1991

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and 603 by the 2002 census. Population is made mostly of

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(91.87% in 2002).

Characteristics

Name ''dunavac'' originates from the small stream on which the settlement was built, less than 1 kilometer from the

's left bank and means the ''small Danube'', which is a common name for arms of the Danube in Slavic countries. Dunavac administratively comprises the settlement of Besni Fok which is totally separated from it and 9 kilometers away from it. As both settlements are small, they don't make one continuous built-up area.