Beška

Beška ( Serbian Cyrillic Бешка, German outdated, Beschka ) is a village in the Okrug Srem in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. It belongs to Opština Inđija; 2002 counted 6,239 residents.

The oldest known mention Beškas is from 1564. 1860 settled for the first time in 13 Danube Swabian families from Backa in Beška. In October 1944, the then about 2,000 Danube Swabian inhabitants had to leave the place.

The European route 75 from Vardo to Sitia, which runs to the east of the village, has an exit for Beška and 3 km away neighboring village Krčedin.

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Notable people

In Beška the Croatian writer Zvonko Dragić was born in 1956.