Bešenovački Prnjavor

Bešenovački Prnjavor (Serbian Cyrillic: Бешеновачки Прњавор) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, in the Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and it is the smallest village in the municipality - its population numbering 145 people (2002 census). Near the village is Bešenovo monastery, one of 16 Serb Orthodox monasteries on Fruška Gora mountain.

Bešenovački Prnjavor Бешеновачки Прњавор (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
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Coordinates: 45°07′N 19°42′E / 45.117°N 19.700°E / 45.117; 19.700
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Syrmia
District	Srem
Municipality	Sremska Mitrovica
Population  (2002)
• Total	145
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Bešenovački Prnjavor (Бешеновачки Прњавор), in Croatian as Bešenovački Prnjavor, and in Hungarian as Besenyőmonostor. Besenyő is the Hungarian word for the Pechenegs.

Historical population

• 1981: 150
• 1991: 140
• 2002: 145

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.

External links

• Манастир Бешеново (Besenovo monastery) (Facebook Account)

45°07′N 19°42′E / 45.117°N 19.700°E / 45.117; 19.700

 

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