Bečmen is an suburban settlement of Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin

Surcin

Surčin is a neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is the youngest of Belgrade's 17 municipalities, as it split from the municipality of Zemun in 2003. Surčin municipality has 38,695 residents while Surčin town itself has 14,292...

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Location

Bečmen is located in the western-central part of the municipality, in the Syrmia

Syrmia

Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....

 region (sub-region of Podlužje

Podlužje

Podlužje is a small geographical region in Serbia. It is located in south-eastern Syrmia. The western part of Podlužje belong to the autonomous province of Vojvodina, and the eastern part belongs to the city of Belgrade...

, 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

Petrovcic

Petrovčić is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin.- Location :...

 on the west to Surčin on the east, and continues to the west into the province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

  (the village of Karlovčić

Karlovcic

Karlovčić is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,243 people ....

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Population

Bečmen is statistically classified as a rural settlement (village) and it has a steady population growth in the recent decades (according to the official censuses) :

• 1931 - 974
• 1948 - 733
• 1953 - 974
• 1961 - 1,195
• 1971 - 1,357
• 1981 - 2,494
• 1991 - 3,020 (de jure)
• 1991 - 2,951 (de facto)
• 2002 - 3,525 (de jure)
• 2002 - 3,409 (de facto)

Major ethnic groups by the 2002 census are the Serbs

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 (3,214 or 94,28%), Roma (60 or 1,76%), Montenegrins (21 or 0,61%) and Macedonians

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 (19 or 0,55%).

Ključ

A hamlet of Bečmen, named after the shape of the settlement (Serbian ključ, the key).

Oaza sport complex

Area of Bečmen has been chosen as a location of the future largest golf course

Golf course

A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

s in the Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

 , which is with the projected value of 800 million euros in the next 11 years one of the largest foreign investments in Serbia.. It is projected that in the next six years a large course with 18 holes and two smaller ones with 9 holes will be built, while the entire complex on 300 hectares will be finished in 11 years and also include ambulance, open kindergarten, five star hotel complex, golf club, service buildings, business center, residential complex with 5,000 apartments but also a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 field, basketball, tennis, volleyball and handball courts, bowling alley and bocce

Bocce

Bocce is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire...

 court. An artificial lake which will separate the courses from the residential area will be also created. The entire "Oaza" (oasis

Oasis

In geography, an oasis or cienega is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source...

) complex will be encircled with 20 hectares of woods and pedestrian and bicycle paths which will connect it to the left bank of the Sava river. "Oaza" will be 25 kilometers away from Belgrade and its construction will include a new 20 kilometer-long access road from Dobanovci

Dobanovci

Dobanovci is an suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin....

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