Bešenovo

For the monastery, see Bešenovo Monastery.

Bešenovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Бешеново, [bɛʃɛ̌nɔʋɔ]) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, in the Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and the population numbers 965 people (2002 census). Near the village is Bešenovo monastery, one of 16 Serb Orthodox monasteries on the Fruška Gora mountain.

Bešenovo Бешеново (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
Orthodox church
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Coordinates: 45°05′N 19°42′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Syrmia
District	Srem
Municipality	Sremska Mitrovica
Population  (2002)
• Total	965
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Bešenovo (Бешеново), in Croatian as Bešenovo, and in Hungarian as Besenyő from Pechenegs.

Demographic history

• 1961: 1,312
• 1971: 1,313
• 1981: 1,028
• 1991: 913
• 2002: 965

See also

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

References

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