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Zrenjanin

Petrovgrad
City
City of Zrenjanin

City Hall and monument to King Peter I of Serbia

Coat of arms
 Location of Zrenjanin within Serbia
Coordinates: 45230N 202254ECoordinates: 45230N 202254E
Country Serbia
Province Vojvodina
District Central Banat
Settled by Roxolani 3rd century AD
Founded 10 July 1326
City status 6 June 1769
Government
Mayor edomir Janji (SNS)
Area
Administrative 1,324.0 km2 (511.19 sq mi)
Area rank 3rd
Elevation 76 m (249 ft)
Population (2011)
Administrative 120,709
Rank 10th
Density 93.2/km2 (241/sq mi)
Urban 76,511[1]
Demonym(s) Zrenjaninci (sr)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 23000
Area code(s) +381(0)23
Car plates ZR
Website www.zrenjanin.rs
Mehmed-paa Sokolovi, the founder of the vakuf of Bekerek
Zrenjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: , pronounced [zranin]; Hungarian: Nagybecskerek; Slovak:
Zreanin) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous
province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 76,511 inhabitants, while the
city administrative area has 123,362 inhabitants (2011 census data).
Zrenjanin is the largest city in the Serbian part of the Banat geographical region, and the third
largest city in Vojvodina (after Novi Sad and Subotica).

Contents
1 Name
2 History
2.1 Prehistory
2.2 Middle Ages
2.3 Ottoman period
2.4 Habsburg and Austrian period (17181914)
2.5 World War I and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
2.6 Second World War and SFR Yugoslavia
2.7 After 1991
3 Geography
3.1 Inhabited places
3.2 Neighbourhoods in Zrenjanin
3.3 Climate
4 Demographics
4.1 Settlements by ethnic majority
4.2 Ethnic groups in the town
4.3 Religion
5 Culture
 5.1 Main sights
5.2 Tourism
5.3 Sports
6 Transportation
7 Notable residents
8 International relations
8.1 Twin towns sister cities
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Name
The city was named after arko Zrenjanin (19021942) in honour and remembrance of his name in
1946. He was one of the leaders of the Vojvodina Partisans. During World War II, he was
imprisoned and released after being tortured by the Nazis for months.[citation needed] Later he was
killed while trying to avoid being recaptured. The former Serbian name of the city was Bekerek
() or Veliki Bekerek ( ). In 1935 the city was renamed to Petrovgrad
() in honor of king Peter I of Serbia. It was called Petrovgrad from 1935 to 1946.
In Hungarian, the city is known as Nagybecskerek, in German as Grobetschkerek or Betschkerek,
in Romanian as Becicherecul Mare or Zrenianin, in Slovak as Zreanin, in Rusin as , in
Croatian as Zrenjanin, and in Turkish as Bekelek (meaning five melons) or Bekerek.
It is assumed[by whom?][citation needed] that Zrenjanin's original name, Bekerek/Becskerek,
comes from Hungarian word kerek ("forest, grove") and the surname of the 14th-century nobleman,
Imre Becsei, who had large estates in the area. Therefore, the name would be translated into English
as "Becsei's Forest". The original name received an adjective meaning "great/big/major" in the
languages of the Banat (Serbian: Veliki or , Danube Swabian: Gro, Hungarian: Nagy,
Romanian: Mare), to distinguish it from a village of the same name in the Romanian Banat, that is
usually referred to as small Bekerek (cf. Serbian: Mali Bekerek or , Danube
Swabian: Kleinbetschkerek, Romanian: Becicherecu Mic, Hungarian: Kisbecskerek).

History
Prehistory
Prehistory can be divided into the Palaeolithic Old Stone Age and the Neolithic New Stone Age.
In Zrenjanin's regions no archaeological sites of the Palaeolithic have been found. The only
exception makes the discovery of mammoths head and other bones found on the banks of Tisa
River near Novi Beej in the year 1952. The discovered archaeological sites, however, indicate that
these regions had already been inhabited in the early Neolithic period about 5000 years BC. The
most important archaeological site from this period is so-called Krsti tumulus, near Mulja, about
10 km (6 mi) away from Zrenjanin. Here were found the ceramics, with interesting ornaments.
Beside the brewery ground have been found rough, with coloured fine ceramics, ornaments
(Starevo culture). The middle Neolithic appeared in our area as Vina and Potisje culture, in the
down course of the Tisa River. What makes this area important is the fact that the influence of two
parallel cultures flew through it at the same time. The Iron Age has not been enough explored yet. A
few regions with some archaeological materials from the Iron Age have been found: in the
residential area umica a tip of a spear was found and near the oil factory, pieces of ceramics from
the Bronze Age were discovered.
At the beginning of the common era, this area was settled by many native tribes, but also by many
newcomer tribes: the Illyrians, the Celts, the Goths, the Geths, the Sarmatian and Jazghs. In the end
of the 3rd century and in the middle of the 4th century, in the area of Zrenjanin and its surroundings,
the Sarmatian tribe Roxolani appeared. From this period a Sarmatians graveyard has been found in
a city residential district, near the railroad bridge. Finally in the necropolis, not far from Aradac,
Meka, more than 120 graves, which date from the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 7th
century, have been excavated in 1952.

Middle Ages
The first historical records mentioning Zrenjanin (Bekerek) date from the 14th century, the time
when the Charles I (13011342) used to visit Banat and spent most of his time in his capital
Timioara. Many noblemen came with him, among which the most powerful Imre Becsei was. He
settled down in Bechereki and Beche (Novi Beej), the names refer to his surname. In region of
todays Zrenjanin an inscription Charles I a coin has been found.
The oldest written records of Bekerek date from Budim Capitulums document of collecting
Popes tens taxes in 1326, 1331 and 1332. Judging by the size of the tens Bekerek of 1330s was
an average village. The first settlers were the landless Hungarian peasants. There were the Serbs in
Banat, too. During Louis I of Hungary reign (13431382) more Serbs from the south came, among
which many Orthodox priests. In the 15th century Bekerek became Serbian place mostly. But after
the Kosovo battle (1389), the Turks came to this area, too.
After the Turkish victory at the battle of Nicopolis (1396) the Hungarian King Sigismund (1387
1437) was considering the defending of the territory settled by the Serbs. Probably that was the
reason, why the King visited Bekerek on September 30, 1398. The town was granted to Stefan
Lazarevi at the end of the 1403. The despot became the vassal of Hungarian King; but he got
Bekerek and the title of the Great Head of the Torontl County.

Ottoman period

Ottoman city of Bekerek (Zrenjanin) in 169798, including mosque with minaret that dominating
the city.
The Hungarian King Ferdinand appointed friar Djordje Martinovi, a commander of his forces, to
defend the town from the Ottomans. Hungary was attacked by 80,000 Ottoman soldiers under the
command of Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha. On September 15, 1551, the siege of the town Beej
was raised and the town was taken after four days. On September 24 the Bekerek fortress was
sieged. Many people left town earlier and with few defenders the town couldn't be defended and
those eighty, who left surrendered the next day. Malkovi was appointed the lord of Bekerek. After
the Ottomans had taken Timioara in 1552, Banat became a special province, the Temevar Eyalet,
which was made up of several sanjaks, one of which was the Sanjak of Bekerek.
During Ottoman occupation, the sanjak had a military administration. Due to good behaviour of the
rayah, the inhabitants were exempt from war taxes. During the 165 years of Ottoman rule, Bekerek
consisted of two separate settlements: the settlement of Bekerek and the village of Gradnulica. The
town was divided into two parts, a Turkish and a Serbian. The Turkish part was fenced and closed,
while the Serbian one was open. On the main square there was a large mosque built and inside the
fortress there was a little one. There was a Turkish bath, and around it there were about twenty
stores. Gradnulica was a disorderly village, whose centre was approximately on the crossroad of the
present streets Sindjelieva and Djurdjevska. Prior to Ottoman occupation, the citizens were Serbs.
At the end of the 18th century there were about fifty Turk families.
According to the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699), the Temevar Eyalet, including Bekerek, stayed
under Ottoman rule, while bordering territories once again came under the Military Frontier. After
the Austro-Turkish War of 171618 Bekerek went under Habsburg rule.

Habsburg and Austrian period (17181914)

As a crown province, Banat belonged directly to the Vienna court. The first governor, appointed by
the Emperor, was Count Claudius Mercy. By the imperial edict on September 12, 1718, Banat was
divided into 13 districts, with the main administration in Timioara at its head. The District of Banat
included a few settlements: Idjo, Ara, Beej, Itebej, Elemir, Eka and Aradac. The first chief of
this district was Titus Vespanius Slucki. After the Turkish forces and Turks families had withdrawn,
the land was left devastated without labour, which could till the soil and paid taxes. Thats why the
Austrian court tried to settle Banat as soon as possible.
The colonization lasted from 1718 till 1724, when the town was settled mostly by Germans, but the
Serbs never stopped arriving. The military frontier in Potisje was displaced. In the following years
Italians, Frenchmen, Romanians arrived and then the Catalans from Barcelona, who settled in the
present Dolja. The town was called New Barcelona. But the life was difficult in this marsh area
with many contagious diseases, so many of them died and still many left. The permanent dangers
for the newcomers were the Turkish gangs, who drove very often into the town plundering and
killing people.
In the summer of 1738 there was the great plague. The Count Mersy wanted to turn marshes into
fertile soil and he began to regulate the Begej River. In the middle and down course of the river a
long canal was built, to make the river traffic possible between Bekerek and Timioara. On the first
of November 1745 Sebastian Krazeisen began to make beer in the first brewery and that meant the
first start of the industrialization. In the same year the first Serbs school was mentioned.
On 6 June 1769 Maria Theresa granted the Community of Great Bekerek, the privilege of
becoming the trading centre. By this privilege the whole social-economic life of the former
Bekerek was regulated and it got the status of the town. In 1769 the first hospital was built. In
1779, by the new organization of Torontl County, Bekerek became its centre. The city was briefly
restored to Ottoman administration from 1787 to 1788 during Austro-Turkish War (178791).
In the 18th century it developed into thriving economic and cultural centre, but the great fire
destroyed a large portion of the town in 1807. The town was soon rebuilt. The fire came from the
brewery, on 30 August 1807. After the fire a new regulation of streets had been done, houses had
been built from stronger materials, roads had been rebuilt. The river traffic was especially intensive.
The theatre building with an attractively decorated hall was built in 1839. In 1846 the Grammar
School was opened and in 1847 the first printing shop.
The 184849 Revolutions had its impact on Bekerek. The Serbs revolted, aiming for autonomy
within the Austrian Empire. At the May Assembly (1315 May 1848), the Serbian Vojvodina was
proclaimed, including most of what is today Vojvodina. Serbs from Bekerek participated in the
uprising against Hungarian authority (which refused Serb rights) and from 26 January to 29 April
1849 the town was under Serb rebel control. In 1849, the town became part of the Voivodeship of
Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar until 1860.
Although that time was known in history as a period of Bach's absolutism, the second part of the
19th century brought the town new developing benefits. New industrial facilities and handicraft
stores were opened in every part of the town. Late 19th and early 20th century was progressive
period for Veliki Bekerek. Railway arrived in 1883, while post office was opened back in 1737.

World War I and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

After the Sarajevo assassination, more than 30 citizens of Bekerek were accused by the Austria-
Hungarys authorities of high treason. Among them was Dr. Emil Gavrila, who together with
Svetozar Mileti and Jaa Tomi, worked very hard on the cultural and social strengthening of
Serbs. The Serbs recruited in the Austria-Hungarys army began soon to desert, so that they would
not fight against their own people. 7000 of them formed volunteer detachments (people were from
Banat and Srem) at the Eastern front and fought at Dobruja, but 79 of them fought on the Salonice
front, too.
After four hard years and the Golgotha of Serb people, the Serbs forces made a breakthrough of the
Salonice front in 1918 and began to liberate their own country. The First Army in command of
Vojvoda Petar Bojovi freed Belgrade on 1 November 1918 and began to free Vojvodina. On 17
November Serbian army arrived at Veliki Bekerek. It was the last day of October 1918, when that
the breath of freedom was felt, and the Serb Chamber of People of the town founded in the war
conditions, as a temporary authority with Dr. Slavko upunski at its head. Serb army, the infantry
iron regiment Duke Mihajlo and the infantry brigade with Colonel Dragutin Risti in command
came into the town on 17 November 1918. A few days after Vojvodina had been freed, its provinces
united with the Kingdom of Serbs and on December 1, 1918 the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes was founded, as the first South Slavic state.
The town of Veliki Bekerek became the administrative centre of Torontal-Tami County, and after
its repealing, the town became the headquarters of District Office. In 1929 the town became part of
the Danube Banovina. By the Town Council decision made on 29 September 1934, and confirmed
by the Town Authority on 18 February 1935, the town was renamed Petrovgrad, after the king Peter
I.

Second World War and SFR Yugoslavia

View of synagogue, which was demolished in 1941 by the Nazis.

After the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had capitulated on 18 April 1941, and the Third Reich occupied
the country, the German Forces came into Petrovgrad. The authority in Banat had domestic
Germans Volksdeutsche, who immediately started to confiscate Jews' property and arrested
patriots. The town was renamed Great Bekerek and it was the headquarters of the occupation
authority for Banat (1941-44) with the notorious police authority Juraj piler and with
concentration camp in Cara Duana Street. The camp existed for almost two years and thousands of
people passed through it. In town there were many underground groups supported by the
Communist Party, which fought against German occupying forces. There were much sabotage, too,
and the Germans made represials. Individual resistance in town was crushed without mercy.
On 2 October 1944 the Red Army Forces came into town and after a short fight, took command in
most vital public buildings. The following day the first meeting on National Liberation Committee
for the town Petrovgrad was held. Eight members of the national liberation resistance, from the
town and its surroundings were announced National Heroes: arko Zrenjanin, Svetozar Markovi
Toza, Pap Pavle, Stevica Jovanovi, Servo Mihalj, Dr. Boko Vrebalov, Nedeljko Barni arki,
Bora Mikin Marko. During World War II, the town infrastructure was kept almost saved. Except in
the final fights for the town, there were no war actions on the territory of the town. The Germans
tried to damage and destroy some industrial buildings, but it was prevented. Only Anau-Winklers
mill and the monumental Jewish synagogue in the centre of the town were destroyed.
After World War II important social-political changes were made in the country, which, of course,
had their influence on the development of Zrenjanin, newly named in 1946. In August 1945 the
Agriculture Reform Act came into force, in June 1950 the Worker Self-Management Act, in 1959
the first direct urban plan of the town development, which indicated the urbanism-economic
development of the town, was passed. The development, in the first after war decade, was directed
by the directive plans, which were based on the principles of socialist economy in which the most
important industrial branches were industry and agriculture. By the 1980s many people left their
villages and moved into towns which brought many changes in the social, educational and ethnic
structure of the town. There was permanently shortage of housing. That is why many new parts of
the town and many new apartment buildings were built. Zrenjanin became an important
agricultural, industrial, cultural and sport centre, at the time Zrenjanin was one of the most powerful
industrial centres of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia led by Josip Broz Tito.

After 1991
The town's development has always been strongly effected by the social-economic circumstances
reflecting the State surroundings that Zrenjanin found in. At the beginning of 1990s, when the war
broke out on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and the country was falling apart, it led to rather
hard social and economic crisis in this area, All that caused an economic stagnation, unemployment,
large migrations of refugees from the former Yugoslav Republics: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The town experienced the first political changes by the introducing of multiparty system at the end
of 1996 when the local government was ruled by the coalition Zajedno (Together) and in 2000 by
the coalition Democratic opposition of Serbia. On March 24, 1999 the aggression of NATO-Pact on
Serbia began. During 77 days of this aggression, the town was not bombed. The life in the town was
quite normal, in spite of this dangerous situation.
In the first years after the end of war activities the Town and its citizens have been adjusting to new
economic and social-economic conditions, known as transition. Instead of previous large economic
combines and companies plenty of new flexible private enterprises are established and foreign
capital is starting to flow in Zrenjanin. New industrial and work and residential zones are formed
and the Town's General Plan 2006-2026 and Sustainable Development Strategy 2006-2013 are
made and approved. At the end of 2007, introducing a new national territorial organisation followed
by necessary legislation, the Municipality of Zrenjanin has been upgraded to an administrative and
territorial status of a city.

Geography
Zrenjanin is situated on the western edge of the Banat loess plateau, at the place where the canalized
River Begej flows into the former water course of the River Tisa. The territory of the city is
predominantly flat country. The City of Zrenjanin is situated at a longitude of 2023 east and a
latitude of 4523 north, in the center of the Serbian part of the Banat region, on the banks of the
Rivers Begej and Tisa. The city is located at 80 meters above sea level.
Zrenjanin is around 70 kilometers away from Belgrade, and about 50 kilometers from Novi Sad,
which is also the distance to the present border with the European Union (Romania), which makes
its position a particularly important transition center and potential resource in the directions north
south and eastwest.
Inhabited places

Map of the city of Zrenjanin

Map of urban local communities of Zrenjanin

Begej River in Zrenjanin (the bridge shown on the picture is located at same place were the former
Eiffel Bridge used to stand)
The city administrative area includes the following villages:
Aradac
Banatski Despotovac
Belo Blato
Boto
enta
Eka
Elemir
Farkadin
Jankov Most
Klek
Knianin
Lazarevo
Lukievo
Lukino Selo
Melenci
Mihajlovo
Orlovat
Perlez
Stajievo
Tara
Tomaevac

Neighbourhoods in Zrenjanin
Baglja
Berbersko
Bolnica
Brigadira Ristia
Downtown
etvrti Jul
ontika
Dolja
Dunavska
Duvanika
Gradnulica
Lesnina
Mala Amerika
Mulja, a former village, joined with Zrenjanin in 1981
Nova Kolonija
Putnikovo
Rua ulman
eerana
umica
 Zeleno Polje

Climate
The Kppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is Dfa (Humid Continental Climate).[2]
This climate is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation
throughout the year. This climate type is found on the eastern sides of the continents between 20
and 35 N and S latitude. In summer, these regions are largely under the influence of moist,
maritime airflow from the western side of the subtropical anticyclonic cells over low-latitude ocean
waters. Temperatures are high and can lead to warm, oppressive nights. Summers are usually
somewhat wetter than winters, with much of the rainfall coming from convectional thunderstorm
activity; tropical cyclones also enhance warm-season rainfall in some regions. The coldest month is
usually quite mild, although frosts are not uncommon, and winter precipitation is derived primarily
from frontal cyclones along the polar front.
The average temperature for the year in Zrenjanin is 11.5 C (52.7 F). The warmest month, on
average, is July with an average temperature of 22.2 C (72.0 F). The coolest month on average is
January, with an average temperature of 0.1 C (32.2 F).
The highest recorded temperature in Zrenjanin is 42.9 C (109.2 F), which was recorded in July.
The lowest recorded temperature in Zrenjanin is 27.3 C (17.1 F), which was recorded in
January.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Zrenjanin is 584.2 mm (23.0 in). The month
with the most precipitation on average is June with 88.9 mm (3.5 in) of precipitation. The month
with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 30.5 mm (1.2 in). There are
an average of 127.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in December with
13.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in August with 8.0 days.

[hide]Climate data for Zrenjanin (19812010, extremes 19612010)

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
38.0 42.9 38.8
Record high 17.7 22.5 28.6 30.1 35.2 37.7 30.0 23.9 20.5 42.9
(100.4 (109.2 (101.8
C (F) (63.9) (72.5) (83.5) (86.2) (95.4) (99.9) (86) (75) (68.9) (109.2
) ) )
Average high 3.6 6.2 12.2 18.0 23.5 26.3 28.6 28.8 23.8 18.0 10.4 4.9 17.0
C (F) (38.5) (43.2) (54) (64.4) (74.3) (79.3) (83.5) (83.8) (74.8) (64.4) (50.7) (40.8) (62.6)
Daily mean 0.1 1.6 6.4 12.0 17.4 20.3 22.2 21.8 17.1 11.9 6.0 1.4 11.5
C (F) (32.2) (34.9) (43.5) (53.6) (63.3) (68.5) (72) (71.2) (62.8) (53.4) (42.8) (34.5) (52.7)
Average low 2.9 2.1 1.8 6.5 11.4 14.4 15.8 15.6 11.7 7.1 2.5 1.6 6.7
C (F) (26.8) (28.2) (35.2) (43.7) (52.5) (57.9) (60.4) (60.1) (53.1) (44.8) (36.5) (29.1) (44.1)
27.3
Record low 21.9 17.6 6.7 0.5 2.0 5.4 5.4 3.0 8.6 13.2 23.1 27.3
(17.1
C (F) (7.4) (0.3) (19.9) (31.1) (35.6) (41.7) (41.7) (26.6) (16.5) (8.2) (9.6) (17.1
)
Average 35.9 30.0 37.2 43.2 55.4 88.8 60.0 45.4 50.2 43.9 47.8 45.3
583.2
precipitation (1.413 (1.181 (1.465 (1.701 (2.181 (3.496 (2.362 (1.787 (1.976 (1.728 (1.882 (1.783
(22.96
mm (inches) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )
Average 12 10 10 11 12 12 9 8 10 8 11 13 127
precipitation
 days ( 0.1
mm)
Average
6 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 22
snowy days
Average
relative
85 78 70 66 65 67 66 66 71 74 81 86 73
humidity
(%)
Mean
monthly
67.4 101.7 152.6 189.4 240.7 262.1 291.5 278.0 205.7 161.8 92.5 58.3 2,101.4
sunshine
hours
Source: Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia[3]

Demographics
See also: Serbs in Vojvodina, Hungarians in Vojvodina, Romani people of Vojvodina, Romanians in
Vojvodina, Slovaks in Vojvodina, Serbian lands, and List of Hungarian communities in Vojvodina
The population of the city of Zrenjanin is composed of:[4]
Serbs = 91,579 (74.24%)
Hungarians = 12,350 (10.01%)
Romani = 3,410 (2.76%)
Romanians = 2,161 (1.75%)
Slovaks = 2,062 (1.67%)
Yugoslavs = 592 (0.48%)
others.

Settlements by ethnic majority

Settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Zrenjanin, Banatski Despotovac, Boto, Elemir, Eka,
Klek, Knianin, Lazarevo, Lukievo, Melenci, Orlovat, Perlez, Stajievo, Tara, Tomaevac,
Farkadin, and enta. Settlements with Hungarian ethnic majority are: Lukino Selo and Mihajlovo.
Settlement with Romanian ethnic majority is Jankov Most. Ethnically mixed settlements are:
Aradac (with relative Serb majority) and Belo Blato (with relative Slovak majority).

Ethnic groups in the town

Changing demographics of the city of Zrenjanin
The population of the Zrenjanin town is composed of:[4]
Serbs = 54,648 (71.43%)
Hungarians = 10,000 (13.07%)
Roma = 2,109 (2.76%)
Romanians = 635 (0.83%)
Yugoslavs = 467 (0.61%)
Croats = 373 (0.49%)
others.

Religion
According to the 2002 census, most of the inhabitants of the Zrenjanin municipality were Orthodox
Christians (77.28%). Other religions include Roman Catholic (12.01%), Protestant (2.13%), and
other. Orthodox Christians in Zrenjanin belong to the Eparchy of Banat of the Serbian Orthodox
Church with seat in Vrac. Zrenjanin is also the centre of the Roman Catholic diocese of the Banat
region belonging to Serbia.

Culture
Main sights

Main faade of the National museum building

Trade academy decorated with sgraffito technique

Serbian Orthodox Uspenska church

Central square and Zrenjanin's Roman Catholic cathedral

Small bridge, Protestant church and Zrenjanin Court House

 City Hall, built in 1816, re-constructed in 1887, neobaroque, Gyula Partos and dn
Lechner.
Finance palace, today National museum, built in 1894 in Neorenaissance style by Istvn
Kiss.
Theatre, built in 1839, classicism, the oldest theatre building in Serbia.
Court House, built between 1906 and 1908, romanticism, Sandor Eigner and Marcus
Rehmer.
Uspenska Serbian Orthodox church, built in 1746, baroque, the oldest church in the city.
Vavedenska church, built in 1777 in Baroque style.
Evangelical church, built in 1837, classicism.
Zrenjanin Cathedral, built between 1864 and 1868, romanesque, Stevan orevi.
Protestant church, built in 1891, neogothic, Ferenc Zaboretzky.
Zrenjanin Synagogue, built in 1896, Moorish Revival, Lipt Baumhorn, demolished in 1941
by Nazis.
Bukovac palace, built in 1905, neorenaissance.
Old Vojvodina hotel, built in 1886, neorenaissance, Bela Peklo.
Grammar School, built in 1846, re-constructed in 1937 and later.
Small bridge, built in 1904, the oldest bridge in the city.
Trade academy, built in 1892, neorenaissance, Istvn Kiss.
Bence's house, built in 1909, secession.
Dry Bridge, built in 1962, without river since 1985.
Eiffel Bridge, built in 1904, replaced by a new bridge in 1969.
Dunerski palace, built in 1910, secession.
House of Soko, built in 1927, academism, Dragia Braovan.

Tourism
Zrenjanin has many places of interest like City Hall, the Cathedral, Freedom Square, King
Aleksandar I Street, etc.
Hotel Vojvodina is situated on Liberty Square. You can reach every part of the city from the hotel
very easily, because it is surrounded by many cultural, historical, business and commercial contents.
Services meet the highest hotel standards. [1]. There is a Tourist Information Office in the building
of National Museum (Subotieva 1).

Sports
Zrenjanin has a long sports tradition. First clubs were established during the 1880s. It was the home
town of Proleter football club from 1947 until 2005. Today, FK Banat plays its games at
Karaorev Park Stadium in Serbian League Vojvodina devisin, which is the third level football
league in Serbia.

Transportation
Zrenjanin no longer has a public transport operator, for the first time in its recent history, following
the privatization and subsequent bankruptcy of Autobanat. It used to operate as the city's public
transport company and as the regional public transport service to the nearby cities of (Novi Sad,
Belgrade, Kikinda, Vrac), etc.
In the past river traffic on the Begej river used to be most developed mode of cargo transport. Veliki
Bekerek got a railway in 1883, when it linked the city to Velika Kikinda. There are many taxi
companies in Zrenjanin and the regulations are either lacking or are not enforced by the authorities.
[citation needed]

Notable residents
Dragan Ahmedovi, Serbian composer
Dezs Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist and composer
Jnos Bartl, magician
Nenad Bjekovi, former Serbian football player
Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist, World and European
champion
Ivan Boldirev, hockey player
Jovana Brakoevi, Serbian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist and European
champion
Branimir Brstina, Serbian actor
Branko Cuic, Serbian basketball player
arko abarkapa, Serbian basketball player, World champion
Konstantin Danil, Serbian painter of Romanian origin
eljko uri, Serbian handball player
Dejan Govedarica, Serbian football player
Nikola Grbi, born in Zrenjanin, lived in Klek, Olympic and European champion
Vladimir Grbi, born in Zrenjanin, lived in Klek, Olympic and European champion
Ivan Ivanji, Novelist
Vladimir Ivi, Serbian football player
ura Jaki, Serbian painter, studying painting as a student of Danil
Olivera Kovaevi, Serbian journalist
Todor Kulji, sociologist
Vilmos Lzr, Hungarian general
Ivan Lener, Serbian swimmer, World and European junior champion
Mile Lojpur, first Yugoslav rocker
eljko Lui, operatic baritone
Todor Manojlovi, Serbian writer
Mirko Milosevic, Serbian handball player
Briitka Molnar, Serbian volleyball player, European champion
Zvonko Ninkov, Serbian journalist
Zorica Novakovi, Serbian poet [2]
Maja Ognjenovi, Serbian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist and European
champion
Joe Penner (Jzsef Pintr), American radio and film comedian[5]
Sneana Panti, Serbian professional karate competitor, World champion
 Emil Petrovics, Hungarian composer of South Slavic origin
edomir Popov, Serbian academic
Miodrag Popov, Serbian journalist
Neboja Popov, sociologist, affiliated with Praxis School
Marianna Schmidt, Hungarian-Canadian printmaker and painter [6]
Milorad Stanulov, Serbian rower, two-time Olympic medalist
Mario Szenessy, Hungarian-German author
Ugljea ajtinac, Serbian writer
Nada argin, Serbian actress
Ivana panovi, Serbian long jumper, Olympic bronze medalist and European champion
Duko Toi, Serbian football player
Zoran Toi, Serbian football player
Danica Vueni, Serbian journalist
Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian boxer, two-time Olympic medalist
Zvonimir Vuki, Serbian football player
Rudolf Wegscheider, Austrian chemist

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Serbia

Twin towns sister cities

Zrenjanin is twinned with:
Bkscsaba, Hungary
Arad, Romania
Timioara, Romania

See also
List of places in Serbia
Central Banat District
Banat
Zrenjanin Airport

References
1.
"2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia:
Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991,
2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia,
Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
Climate Summary
 "Monthly and annual means, maximum and minimum values of meteorological elements for
the period 19812010" (in Serbian). Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia.
Retrieved February 25, 2017.
"Population by ethnicity Zrenjanin". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS).
Retrieved 11 March 2013.
Joe Penner biography (in Hungarian)
6. Laurence, Robin. "Marianna Schmidt: Untitled (Three Figures)" (PDF). Surrey Art Gallery.
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C. ISBN 978-1-926573-06-9. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
Bibliography

Milan Tutorov, Banatska rapsodija - istorika Zrenjanina i Banata, Novi Sad, 2001.

External links

Official Website of the City of Zrenjanin (Serbian) (English)

The official website of the Tourist organization of Zrenjanin (Serbian)
Villa Daniel, Zrenjanin (Serbian)
Website of the local weekly magazine "Zrenjanin" (Serbian)
Zrenjanin Business Portal (Serbian)

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WorldCat Identities
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Categories:
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