Novo Miloševo

Novo Miloševo
Ново Милошево
Village

The Orthodox Church
Novo Miloševo

Location of Novo Miloševo within Serbia

Novo Miloševo

Location of Novo Miloševo within Vojvodina

Coordinates: 45°43′11″N 20°18′07″E / 45.71972°N 20.30194°ECoordinates: 45°43′11″N 20°18′07″E / 45.71972°N 20.30194°E
Country  Serbia
Province  Vojvodina
District Central Banat
Elevation 77 m (253 ft)
Population (2002)
  Novo Miloševo 6,763
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 23273
Area code(s) +381(0)23
Car plates ZR

Novo Miloševo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ново Милошево) is a village located in the Novi Bečej municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority(76.09%) with a present Hungarian minority(14.57%) and its population numbering 6,763 people (2002 census).

Name

The village was formed after the Second World War when former villages of Beodra and Dragutinovo were joined into one single village known as Novo Miloševo. Before 1918, Dragutinovo was known as Karlovo.

The former village of Beodra was known as Beodra (Беодра) in Serbian, Beodra in Hungarian and Beudra in German.

The former village of Dragutinovo was known as Dragutinovo (Драгутиново) after 1918 and Karlovo (Карлово) before 1918 in Serbian, Karlova in Hungarian and Karlowo in German.

History

The former village of Beodra was first mentioned in 1331. It was established at present-day location from 1742 to 1753 and was settled by Serbs from Potisje and Pomorišje.

The village of Karlovo was established in 1751 by former Serb frontiersmen. In 1918, the name of the village was changed to Dragutinovo, after Dragutin Ristić, colonel of Serbian army, whose unit occupied the village. In 1946, Dragutinovo and Beodra were joined into one single village known as Novo Miloševo, after Miloš Popov Klima, partisan soldier born in Dragutinovo.

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