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Bangladeš ( sr-cyrl, Бангладеш) is a small
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suburban settlement of the city of
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Name

The settlement's name is the Serbian transliteration of
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, a country in South Asia. The origin of the name is not certain.


History

Before being populated, Bangladeš was intended to be pig farmland. Bangladeš was founded in
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...
by the intervention of the Center for Social Work of Novi Sad () to resettle 100 Roma families who were displaced after a great fire destroyed a Romani settlement in Novi Sad. It was intended to be temporary. However, the settlement essentially became permanent. The settlement's households received potable pipeline water supply in 2004 and
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in 2009.


Geography

The settlement is situated to the northwest of urban Novi Sad, between
Sajlovo Sajlovo ( sr-cyrl, Сајлово; hu, Zajol) or Donje Sajlovo ( sr-cyrl, Доње Сајлово) is a neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. History In 1237, two villages with name Sajlovo (Hungarian: Zajol), Donje Sajlovo and Gornje Sa ...
and
Rumenka Rumenka () is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 6,495 people (2011 census). Name In Serbian and Croatian, the village is known as ''Rumenka'' (Руменка), and ...
, close to the road connecting the two settlements, ''Rumenački put'' (Rumenka road).


Demographics

According to ACT International, Bangladeš was populated by 250 ethnic
Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
people, of which 40 were children, in 2000. According to Red Cross Novi Sad, Bangladeš was populated by 233 inhabitants, who lived in 55 families, in 2006. It had been reported that in 2009 the settlement had 350 inhabitants in 60 households.


See also

*
Neighborhoods of Novi Sad This is a list of the neighbourhoods and suburbs of Novi Sad. Neighbourhoods on the left bank of the Danube * Stari Grad (Old City, City Centre) * Bulevar * Liman (Liman I, Liman II, Liman III, Liman IV) * Almaški Kraj * Podbara ** Indus ...
* List of Roma settlements


References


External links


Center for Social Work of Novi Sad
{{DEFAULTSORT:Banglades Suburbs of Novi Sad Romani communities in Serbia