Novi Banovci () is a settlement in
Serbia
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by the
Danube River
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. It is situated in the
Stara Pazova municipality, in the
Srem District, in
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 ...
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,
Belgrade
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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
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* Serbian names
See also
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* Old Serbian (disambiguation ...
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
Lutheran
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village within the boundaries of the
Military Frontier.
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
Yugoslav War, especially after the
Oluja military action which forced almost 250,000 Serbs from
Croatia
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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
See also
*
List of places in Serbia
This is the list of populated places in Serbia (excluding Kosovo), as recorded by the 2002 census, sorted alphabetically by municipalities. Settlements denoted as " urban" (towns and cities) are marked bold. Population for every settlement is gi ...
*
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
Banovci web portalbanovci.rs/photos/Novi Banovci - photos
Populated places in Syrmia
Roman towns and cities in Serbia
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