Belo Blato


Belo Blato 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.
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Name

In Serbian the village is known as Belo Blato, 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, 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: