Bečmen
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Bečmen (Serbian Cyrillic: Бечмен) is an suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin.
[edit] Location
Bečmen is located in the western-central part of the municipality, in the Syrmia region (sub-region of Podlužje, north of the Bojčinska woods), 6 kilometers west of its municipal seat, Surčin, and some 25 kilometers west of downtown Belgrade. It is located on the road which connects Petrovčić on the west to Surčin on the east, and continues to the west into the province of Vojvodina (the village of Karlovčić).
[edit] Population
Bečmen is statistically classified as a rural settlement (village) and it has a steady poulation growth in the recent decades (according to the official censuses):
- 1931 - 974
- 1981 - 2,494
- 1991 - 3,020
- 2002 - 3,409
Major ethnic groups are the Serbs (3,214 or 94,28%), Roma (60 or 1,76%), Montenegrins (21 or 0,61%) and Macedonians (19 or 0,55%).
[edit] Ključ
A hamlet of Bečmen, named after the shape of the settlement (Serbian ključ, the key).
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