Dunavac ( Serbian Cyrillic: Дунавац) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of

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. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. The word literally means "Little

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Location

Dunavac is located in the northern,

Banat Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of T ...

section of the municipality, 31 kilometer north of downtown Belgrade and 5 kilometer from the small town of

Opovo Opovo (; hu, Ópáva) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 4,546, while Opovo municipality has 10,475 inhabitants. Name In Serbian, the town ...

, a municipal seat 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 ...

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 settlement is located on the ''Zrenjaninski put'' road, which connects Belgrade with the town of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...

, also in Vojvodina.

Population

The settlement originated after 1947 when mass melioration works began in the marsh of Pančevački Rit, in the extreme northern part of which Dunavac is located. It is a small, slightly depopulating settlement with a population of 618 by the 1991

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and 603 by the 2002 census. Population is made mostly of

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

(91.87% in 2002).

Characteristics

Name ''dunavac'' originates from the small stream on which the settlement was built, less than 1 kilometer from the

's left bank and means the ''small Danube'', which is a common name for arms of the Danube in Slavic countries. Dunavac administratively comprises the settlement of

Besni Fok Besni Fok (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Бесни Фок'') is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Name Name comes from the Serbian word ''besni'' which means ''rabid'' o ...

which is totally separated from it and 9 kilometers away from it. As both settlements are small, they don't make one continuous built-up area.

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Population

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