Beli Manastir

Beli Manastir
coat of arms
Coordinates: 45 ° 46 ′ 1 ″  N , 18 ° 35 ′ 51 ″  E
Basic data
State :	Croatia
County :	Osijek-Baranja
Height :	101  m. i. J.
Area :	55  km²
Residents :	10,068 (2011)
Population density :	183 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+385) 031
Postal code :	31 300
License plate :	BM
Structure and administration (status: 2013, cf. )
Community type :	city
Mayor :	Ivan Doboš ( SDP )
Website :	www.beli-manastir.hr

Beli Manastir ( Hungarian Pélmonostor , Serbian - Cyrillic Бели Манастир ) is a city in the Croatian region of Baranja . It has 10,068 inhabitants (as of 2011) and belongs to the Osijek-Baranja County .

Beli Manastir means "white monastery" in German.

history

In 1227 the Hungarian Count Palatine Moys de Daro had a monastery built on his property in the south of the Hungarian kingdom in the village of Pél. The village was later called Pél Monostor (after the monastery). Pél Monostor belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1920, with the exception of the Turkish occupation in the 16th and 17th centuries.

In 1920 the place and the southern Baranja fell to Yugoslavia. In 1923 the place was renamed. Pél Monostor was translated into Serbo-Croatian and was now called Beli Manastir.

After the Second World War , the city and the southern Baranja were incorporated into the Yugoslav republic of Croatia. After Croatia's independence in 1991 and the war that followed, the city fell into the hands of the insurgent Serbs. The non-Serbian population was expelled. In 1997 the city and southern Baranja were returned to Croatia by peace agreement. The non-Serbian population was able to return.

Today the city is the district town and center of the Croatian Baranja.

population

According to the 1910 census, the city had 2,447 inhabitants. Of these referred to as

• Germans - 1,496 (61.1%)
• Serbs - 478 (19.5%)
• Hungary - 443 (18.1%)
• Croatians - 6 (0.24%)
• Others - 24 (0.98%)

According to the 2011 census, the ethnic makeup of the city is as follows:

• Croatians = 5,750 (57.11%)
• Serbs = 2,572 (25.55%)
• Hungary = 801 (7.96%)
• Roma = 301 (2.99%)
• Germans = 85 (0.84%)
• Slovenes = 67 (0.67%)
• Montenegrins = 57 (0.57%)
• Albanians = 47 (0.47%)
• Macedonians = 21 (0.21%)
• Bosniaks = 20 (0.20%)

Buildings

Transmission system with a 202 meter high, guyed steel truss mast built in 1966.

Web links

Commons : Beli Manastir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Talma Kiadó . Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 22, 2016. 
2. ↑ Beli Manastir. In: Structurae