Novi Banovci () is a settlement in

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by the

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. It is situated in the Stara Pazova municipality, in the

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, in

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province. It is located 5 kilometers away from

Batajnica Batajnica ( sr-Cyrl, Батајница, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun. Location and geography Batajnica is located in the Syrmia region, in the northern ...

and 20 km from the capital,

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. Novi Banovci is situated on the Belgrade-Novi Sad route. It has a Serb ethnic majority and its population totals 9,443 people (2011 census).

Name

The name of the town in Serbian is plural.

History

Following the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC, the settlement was known as Burgenae. The village of Novi Banovci was established in 1790 and soon it turned into the first predominantly

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village within the boundaries of the

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. Novi Banovci experienced a constant population growth in the 20th century. A significant increase in the neighborhood's population occurred in the mid-1990s, caused by the large influx of refugees from the

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, especially after the Oluja military action which forced almost 250,000 Serbs from

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into Serbia, and many of them settled at the outskirts of Belgrade.

Demographics

Population of Novi Banovci according to the official censuses: *1948: 1,341 *1953: 1,451 *1961: 1,592 *1971: 1,842 *1981: 4,077 *1991: 6,354 *2002: 9,358 *2011: 9,443

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

Banovci web portal

banovci.rs/photos/

Novi Banovci - photos
Populated places in Syrmia Roman towns and cities in Serbia {{SremRS-geo-stub

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