| Novi Bečej Нови Бечеј |
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| — Municipality and Town — | |
| Serbian Orthodox church in Novi Bečej | |
| Location of the municipality of Novi Bečej within Serbia | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Serbia |
| District | Central Banat |
| Settlements | 4 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Milivoj Vrebalov (LDP) |
| Area[1] | |
| • Municipality | 609 km2 (235.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2011 census)[2] | |
| • Town | 14,452 |
| • Municipality | 26,924 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 23272 |
| Area code | +381 23 |
| Car plates | ZR |
| Website | www.novibecej.rs |
Novi Bečej (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Бечеј), is a town and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 14,406, while Novi Bečej municipality has 26,881 inhabitants.
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Its name means "new Bečej". In the past it was known simply as "Bečej", while the current town of Bečej, across the river Tisa, was in the past known as "Stari Bečej" ("old Bečej") and today is known as "Bečej".
In Serbian, the town is known as Novi Bečej (Нови Бечеј), in Hungarian as Törökbecse, in Croatian as Novi Bečej, and in German as Neu-Betsche.
Serbian and Hungarian language are officially used by municipal authorities.
12th century BC ornitho-morphic pendants were found in the town. The Dacians inhabited the region before the Roman conquest in the 2nd-1st Century BC.
The town was first mentioned in 1091 during the Hungarian Kingdom. In the 15th century, it was a possession of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. During the Ottoman rule (in 1660/6), it was populated by ethnic Serbs. Ottomans managed her as "Beçe" between 1552-1718. Until 1918 its part of the Hungarian Kingdom, after it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states except German occupation between 1941-1944.
Novi Bečej municipality includes the town of Novi Bečej and the following villages:
All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.
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