Bavanište

For the monastery, see Bavanište monastery.

Bavanište Баваниште
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox Church
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Coordinates: 44°49′05″N 20°52′20″E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Municipality	Kovin
Elevation	82 m (269 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Bavanište	6,106
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26222
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	KO

Bavanište (Serbian Cyrillic: Баваниште) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District of Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.37%) and its population numbers 6,106 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Bavanište (Баваниште), in Romanian as Bavaniște, in Hungarian as Homokbálványos, and in German as Bawanischte.

Historical population

• 1948: 5,805
• 1953: 6,066
• 1961: 6,133
• 1971: 6,322
• 1981: 6,412
• 1991: 6,517

Major ethnic groups

Year	Total	Serbs	Romani	Macedonians	Yugoslavs	Hungarians	Romanians	Croats	Rest
1991	6,517	87.32%	6.82%	0.87%	1.93%	0.75%	0.29%	0.38%	1.64%
2002	6,106	89.37%	6.73%	0.58%	0.26%	0.60%	0.26%	0.613%	2.03%

See also

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

References

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

External links

• Bavanište prezentacija