Bečej (Serbian: Бечеј or Bečej, Hungarian: Óbecse, Rusin: Бечеј, Croatian: Bečej, German: Altbetsche) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 25,703, while Bečej municipality has 40,877 inhabitants. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... Car number plates in the former Yugoslavia showed the place where the car carrying them was registered, in the form of a two letter code. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... Rusin (meaning literally Rusyn, Ruthenian) is a Slavic language/dialect spoken in north-western Serbia and eastern Croatia (therefore also called Yugoslavo-Ruthenian, Vojvodina-Ruthenian or Bačka-Ruthenian). ... South Backa (Juzna Backa) District within Vojvodina South Bačka District (Južnobački okrug) is a northern district of Serbia. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official languages Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Rusin1 Capital Novi Sad Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  21,500 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2002)  â€“ Density  2,031,992  94. ... Motto: None Anthem: Bože Pravde Capital Belgrade Largest city Belgrade Official language(s) Serbian Government • President • Prime Minister Republic Boris Tadić Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Independence Part of Serbia and Montenegro Area  - Total    - Water (%)   88,361 km² (112th if ranked) 34,166 sq mi  N/A Population  - 2005 est. ...

Inhabited places

Bečej municipality includes the town of Bečej and the following villages:

• Bačko Gradište (Hungarian: Bácsföldvár)
• Bačko Petrovo Selo (Hungarian: Péterréve)
• Mileševo (Hungarian: Drea)
• Radičević

Note: For the inhabited places with absolute or relative Hungarian ethnic majority, the names are also given in Hungarian. Bácsföldvár (Bačko Gradište) Óbecse község tartozéke! Az 1991-es népszámlálási adatok szerint Bácsföldvárnak 5. ... Bačko Petrovo Selo (Serbian: Бачко Петрово Село Croatian: Bačko Petrovo Selo; German: Batschko Petrovo Selo) is a village in South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. ...

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Bečej is an ethnically mixed town and municipality.

The population of the Bečej town is composed of:

• Hungarians = 11,725 (45.49%)
• Serbs = 11,197 (43.44%)
• others.

The population of the Bečej municipality is composed of: Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

• Hungarians = 20,018 (48.83%)
• Serbs = 16,832 (41.06%)
• Yugoslavs = 1,070 (2.61%)
• Roma = 479 (1.16%)
• Croats = 437 (1.06%)
• others.

Local communities with a Hungarian ethnic majority are: Bačko Petrovo Selo (Hungarian: Péterréve) and Mileševo (Hungarian: Istenföldje). There is one local community with a Serb ethnic majority: Radičević. Two local communities: Bečej (Hungarian: Óbecse) and Bačko Gradište (Hungarian: Bácsföldvár) are ethnically mixed, with the largest ethnic group there being the Hungarians. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Yugoslavs were a relatively short-lived nationality that was created at the time of Yugoslavia. ... The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), often referred to as Gypsies, are a heterogeneous ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Latin America, southern states of North America and the Middle East. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. ...

External links

• Official website
• Unofficial website