Deliblato is a village

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 in Serbia

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. It is situated in the Kovin

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 municipality

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, in the South Banat District

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, Vojvodina

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 province. The village has a Serb

Serbs

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 ethnic majority and its population is 3,498 (2002 census). The Deliblatska Peščara

Deliblatska Pešcara

Deliblatska Peščara or Deliblato Sand is a large sand area situated in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in southern Banat...

 (Deliblato Sands), a largest sandy area

Sand

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 in Europe

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, was named after this village.

Name

Name of the village derived from Turkish word "deli" ("big" in English) and Serbian word "blato" ("mud" in English), thus the full meaning of the name of the village in English would be "the big mud".

History

It is not certain when the village was founded. In 1660/6, during the Ottoman rule, Deliblato was populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1761, it was recorded as Orthodox Christian settlement. Serbian church was built in 1783 and rebuilt in 1906.

Population and major ethnic groups

Year	Total	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...	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...	Hungarians	Roma	Croats Croats Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...	Montenegrins	Rest
1991	3,722	74.2%	17.35%	4.00%	1.85%	0.80%	0.37%	0.29%	0.69%
2002	3,498	80.1%	12.6%	1.22%	1.25%	1.08%	0.25%	0.28%	3.22%

See also

• Deliblatska Peščara
  Deliblatska Pešcara
  Deliblatska Peščara or Deliblato Sand is a large sand area situated in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in southern Banat...
  
  
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina