Beltinci

Beltinci
St. Ladislaus' Church in Beltinci
Beltinci Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°36′21.64″N 16°13′58.23″E / 46.6060111°N 16.2328417°ECoordinates: 46°36′21.64″N 16°13′58.23″E / 46.6060111°N 16.2328417°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Prekmurje
Statistical region	Mura
Municipality	Beltinci
Area
• Total	12.2 km^2 (4.7 sq mi)
Elevation	177.8 m (583.3 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	2,414
[1]

Beltinci (pronounced [ˈbeːltintsi]; Prekmurje Slovene: Böltinci,^[2] Hungarian: Belatinc^[3] or Belatincz,^[4] German: (Alt)Fellsdorf^[5]) is a town in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Beltinci.

Until 1937, there was a Jewish Orthodox synagogue in Beltinci. It was built in 1860 and served the local Jewish community.

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Ladislaus and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It dates from 1742 with late 19th-century alterations.^[6]

Demographics

Population by native language, 2002 census

• Slovene: 7974
• Romany: 73
• Croatian: 49
• Albanian: 12
• Serbian: 9
• Serbo-Croatian: 7
• Other: 12
• Unknown: 107

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Novak, Vilko. 2006. Slovar stare knjižne prekmurščine. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, p. vi.
3. Varga, Júlia. 2004. Magyarországi diákok a Habsburg Birodalom kisebb egyetemein és akadémiáin, 1560–1789. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Levéltára, p. 129.
4. Radkersburg und Luttenberg (map, 1:75,000). 1914. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut.
5. Engelke, Edda, & Mateja Čoh. 2011. "Jeder Flüchtling ist eine Schwächung der Volksdemokratie": die illegalen Überschreitungen am jugoslawisch-steirischen Grenzabschnitt in den Fünfzigerjahren. Vienna: Lit Verlag, p. 333.
6. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 2871

External links

• Beltinci on Geopedia
• Beltinci municipal site (in Slovene)
• Jews of Beltinci