Banoštor

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Map of the Beočin municipality, showing the location of Banoštor

Banoštor (Баноштор) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Beočin municipality, in the Vojvodina province. Although, the village is geographically located in Syrmia, it is part of the South Bačka District. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 780 people (2002 census).

1 Name
2 History
3 Historical population
4 Features
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Name

Name Banoštor means "the monastery of the ban". It was named after a monastery that was founded at this location in the 12th century. The founder of a monastery was the son of the Serbian župan Uroš I, ban Beluš, who was a palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary, and who ruled over Srem from 1142 to 1163.

In Serbian, the village is known as Banoštor or Баноштор, in Croatian as Banoštor, and in Hungarian as Bánmonostor.

[edit] History

In ancient times, the Celtic settlement named Malata existed at this location. It was later conquered by the Romans and was renamed to Bononia. Romans transformed the settlement into a military stronghold and Roman military unit known as Cohors alpinorum was situated in it. The Roman emperors visited Bononia to conduct a muster of the legionaries.

The Roman legion named Herkulia VI was also stationated in the town. Two religious altars were also situated near Bononia - one of them was dedicated to Jupiter and another one to Neptune.

Many Serbs from this area were executed in Jasenovac Concentration Camp by the Croatian Ustashe and German Nazis during the Second World War.

[edit] Historical population

1921: 1,095
1931: 1,784
1948: 705
1953: 677
1961: 678
1971: 733
1981: 650
1991: 618
2002: 780

[edit] Features

Banoštor is located on the edge of the Fruška Gora Mountain Range and on the Danube River. Every year around September, the village celebrates the beginning of the wine season with a grape festival called the "Dan Grožđa" or Grape Day and it is dedicated to Sveti Trifun (Saint Trifun), God's overseer of wine growers. The village's Serbian Orthodox Church was rebuilt in the early 19th century and is dedicated to Saint George.

[edit] References

Miloš Lukić, Putevima slobode - naselja opštine Beočin u ratu i revoluciji, Novi Sad, 1987.
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.