Bešenovo

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Bešenovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Бешеново, [bɛʃɛ̌nɔʋɔ]) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, in the Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and the population numbers 965 people (2002 census). Near the village is Bešenovo monastery, one of 16 Serb Orthodox monasteries on the Fruška Gora mountain.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Bešenovo (Бешеново), in Croatian as Bešenovo, and in Hungarian as Besenyő.

Demographic history

• 1961: 1,312
• 1971: 1,313
• 1981: 1,028
• 1991: 913
• 2002: 965

See also

• Bešenovo monastery
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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