Belo Blato

Belo Blato ( Serbian Cyrillic Бело Блато; Slovak: Biele Blato; Hungarian: Nagyerzsébetlak; German: Elisenheim ) is a place in the Serbian Banat and belongs to the administrative area of ​​the city Zrenjanin. The village name is translated German White mud and derives from the adjacent Belo Jezero ( White Lake ) from.

History

The Belo Blato was founded in 1866 by Germans, who named the village Elisenheim. After a flood in 1876, the inhabitants left the village and moved to the east of the Banat. 180 Slovak families from the nearby Padina Then settle in the area about 1883 again, which some time later, German, Magyars and Bulgars followed. The latter came from the surrounding towns and Mužlja Lukino Selo. The Settlers Catholic denomination founded the first church in 1902 was followed by another Protestant church for the Slovak community in 1895. In addition, a primary school, a priest's house and a mill was built, which was operated by Ján Burík, one had moved Slovaks from Aradac.

For First and Second World War more than 350 young men were recruited from Belo Blato, which fought on various fronts war in Europe. The 81 fallen soldiers have left more than 100 children who grew up from now on as orphans or half-orphans.

In 1962, electricity and fresh water pipes, a sewage system and a telephone network installed.

Education

To maintain the culture children are still taught in elementary school in the Slovak and Hungarian.

Demography

According to a 2002 census in Belo Blato lived a total of 1173 persons of legal age, the average age of 39.4 years is ( 38.4 in males and 40.4 in the female population ). In the 568 households on average 2.6 people live.

With 39.47 % represent the largest ethnic Slovaks share, which follow with 33.03 % Hungarians and 8.66% Bulgarians. Only 7.98 % of the population profess to be Serbs. The rest are among other Yugoslavs, Roma and Romanians.

Looking back over the past generation has observed a sharp decline in population.

• Place in the Opština Zrenjanin