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were dug, draining the area and making the permanent settlement possible. In 1947 first works on the construction began and first settlers came in 1948. The origin and the future development of Besni Fok was closely tied to the Combined Agricultural Enterprise Beograd (PKB Beograd). Originally the
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Sub-settlement of Preliv is a stretched row of some 60 houses, 2.5 to 5 kilometers away from Besni Fok. The communal situation is even worse than in the rest of Besni Fok as practically it has no waterworks, roads or even grocery stores, so out of the 60 houses, in 2012 half of them were without
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residents. Elementary school was closed in the late 1970s and the main road was paved only in 2007. The only economic activity in the settlement is agriculture, which makes it a rare purely rural area as most of the neighboring settlements are oriented towards the agricultural industry.
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Despite being a small and stagnant neighborhood, Besni Fok is quite known in the rest of Belgrade. Some of it comes from a notoriously bad communal infrastructure it has, but also because of its unusual name and popularity it gained as a fishing resort.
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settlement consisted of barracks, later of concrete and brick houses, while proper residential buildings were erected in the mid-1970s. Until the 1970s, Besni Fok was statistically a separate settlement, but then it was annexed to
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While it was a separate settlement, according to the official censuses, Besni Fok had a population of 946 in 1961 and 977 in 1971. Estimated population in 2015 was around 1,000.
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From the late 19th century, the area was intermittently inhabited, mostly by Hungarians and Germans. In the 1930s several
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matches, etc. The settlement has its own football team, “FK Pionir”. Eccentric footballer
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section of the municipality, 28 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade. It is built on the
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Dimitrije Bukvić (27 January 2012), "Ruralni Preliv u radnićkom krajoliku",
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Popis stanovništva 1971, Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf)
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Popis stanovništva 1961, Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf)
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because of the local canal which uncontrollably flooded the area.
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Since 1967, Besni Fok is a location of the traditional
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or "Labour Day early outing", celebration of May 1,
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Besni Fok is located in Serbia
45°00′N 20°24′E / 45.000°N 20.400°E / 45.000; 20.400
Serbia
Time zone
UTC+1
CET
DST
UTC+2
CEST
Leva obala Beograda – Besni Fok
Serbian
Cyrillic
suburban settlement
Belgrade
Serbia
Palilula
German
Banat
Pančevački Rit
Danube
Tamiš
Zrenjanin
Vojvodina
drainage channels
Padinska Skela
Labour Day
bonfire
sack race
futsal
tug of war

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