Banatski Brestovac () is a village located in the Municipality of Pančevo, in the

South Banat District The South Banat District ( sr, Јужнобанатски округ, Južnobanatski okrug, ; hu, Dél-bánsági körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The administrative center of ...

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. It is situated in the

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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 village has a Serbian ethnic majority and its population numbers 3,251 people ( 2011 census).

Name

The name of the village refers to the stands of

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trees which surrounded the village. The name of the village is of Serbian origin, and a legend about origin of the name claims that the village was first settled by Rascian people from the village of Brestovik located on the southern bank of the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , p ...

. In Serbian, the village is known as ''Banatski Brestovac'', in Hungarian as ''Beresztóc'' (official name from 1898 to 1918) and in

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as ''Brestowatz'' (official name ''Rustendorf'' from March 1943 to September 1944).

Geography

The village is located near the Ponjavica river at , approximately 21 km SE of Pančevo, 37 km SE of

Pančevo bridge Pančevo Bridge ( sr-cyr, Панчевачки мост, Pančevački most) or colloquially Pančevac ( sr-cyr, Панчевац) is a bridge over the Danube in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It was named after the northern city of Pančevo (in ...

to Belgrade and 26 km NW of

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to ...

. Since 1995, there is a protected nature park Ponjavica south of the village. There is a camp and a village called Jabukov Cvet (serbian for apple flower, because of apple plantation located there) near Banatski Brestovac. Jabukov Cvet is known tourist destination of that area. The camp is visited by many international tourists during the year.

History

The official year of founding of Brestovac is 1717, but it is only documented an abandoned settlement with 12 uninhabited houses in that time. The communal area was a part of

Temeşvar Eyalet The Province of Temeşvar ( ota, ;ایالت طمشوار Eyālet-i Tımışvār), known as Province of Yanova after 1658, was a first-level administrative unit (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire located in the Banat region of Central Europe. B ...

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since 1552, after the Treaty of Požarevac a part of Habsburg's

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, since 1765 of the

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(

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) and then it belonged to the

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. After

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was that area a part of provisional Torontalsko-tamiške

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ja (

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

), in 1922 of Belgrade oblast and since 1929 of the Danube Banovina in the

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. In the time after World War II its belonged to the Srez Pančevo of the

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and the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

. The communal area of Banatski Brestovac was a part of the administrative region of the Pančevo municipality from all these centuries to the present. There is an impression of the old village which is recorded on the map of the

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land survey from the early 19th century at the

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. In 1902,

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maps of the village were recorded which are located at the

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Historical population

Economy

The main occupation of the people is in

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, as with many other local settlements. Since several years, there is an annual event named ''Paprikijada'' in the village, organized by an economic and cultural association of local women called ''Aktiv Žena Sosa''. During the event, all kinds of paprika are sold, culinary tastings of dishes offered, and the biggest and most beautiful paprika is chosen.

Gallery

Image:Banatski_Brestovac,_Orthodox_church.jpg, Bell tower of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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History of th
Serbian Orthodox Church Ascension of Christ
on the Official Website by

Eparchy of Banat The Eparchy of Banat ( sr, Банатска епархија, Banatska eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Banat region, Serbia. It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, ...

, Retrieved on 2017-01-12. Image:Banatski_Brestovac,_community_center.jpg, Center of local municipality

References

External links

Banatski Brestovac
on the Official Website by the Municipality of Pančevo {{Authority control Pančevo Populated places in Serbian Banat Populated places in South Banat District