Beltinci

Place in Prekmurje, Slovenia

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46°36′21.64″N 16°13′58.23″E / 46.6060111°N 16.2328417°E / 46.6060111; 16.2328417Country

SloveniaTraditional regionPrekmurjeStatistical regionMuraMunicipalityBeltinciArea

• Total12.2 km² (4.7 sq mi)Elevation

177.8 m (583.3 ft)Population

(2020)

• Total2,430 • Density200/km² (520/sq mi)^[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. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows through the settlement.^[6]

Name

Beltinci was attested as Belethfalua in 1322, Belethafalua in 1381, and Balatincz in 1402. The name is originally a plural demonym derived from the Slavic personal name *Běletinъ—from the nickname *Bělъ(jъ) 'white', applied to people with fair skin or hair—thus meaning 'residents of Běletinъ's village'. The second e in the reconstructed name *Beletinci was lost in Slovene due to syncope.^[7]

Jewish community

Until 1937, there was a Jewish Orthodox synagogue in Beltinci. It was built in 1860 and served the local Jewish community. On April 26, 1944, all of the Jews of the town were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, from which none of them returned.^[8]

Church

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.^[9]

Demographics

Population by native language, 2002 census

Slovene: 1,969
Hungarian: 247
Romany: 73
Croatian: 49
Albanian: 12
Serbian: 9
Serbo-Croatian: 7
Other: 12

References

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ Novak, Vilko. 2006. Slovar stare knjižne prekmurščine. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, p. vi.
^ Varga, Júlia. 2004. Magyarországi diákok a Habsburg Birodalom kisebb egyetemein és akadémiáin, 1560–1789. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Levéltára, p. 129.
^ Radkersburg und Luttenberg (map, 1:75,000). 1914. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut.
^ 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.
^ Savnik, Roman (1980). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 283.
^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 56.
^ "Beltinci - Jews and antisemitism in Slovenia".
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 2871