Beočin municipality

Beočin (Беочин) is a town and municipality in South Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro. The population of the town is 8,037, whilst Beočin's municipality population is 16,029. There is also a Beočin Monastery from the 16th century in the municipality. 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. ... South Bačka (Južna Bačka) District within Vojvodina map of South Bačka District South Bačka District (Serbian: Južnobački okrug or Јужнобачки округ, Croatian: Južnobački okrug, Hungarian: Dél Bácskai Körzet, Slovak: Juhobáčsky okres, Romanian: Districtul Backa de Sud) is a northern... 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. ...

Inhabited places

Beočin municipality encompasses of town of Beočin, and the following villages:

• Banoštor
• Grabovo
• Lug
• Rakovac
• Sviloš
• Susek
• Čerević

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Beočin municipality:

• Serbs (68.17%)
• Roma (6.51%)
• Slovaks (5.96%)
• Yugoslavs (5.35%)
• Croats (4.7%)
• Hungarians (1.79%)

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority, while the village of Lug have an ethnic Slovak majority. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... 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. ... The Yugoslavs were a relatively short-lived nationality that was created at the time of Yugoslavia. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. ...