Bangladeš ( sr-cyrl, Бангладеш) is a small

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suburban settlement of the city of

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

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Name

The settlement's name is the Serbian transliteration of

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

, 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

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.

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