Banatsko Aranđelovo

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

Banatsko Aranđelovo Банатско Аранђелово (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox Church
46°03′51.59″N 20°14′36.46″E / 46.0643306°N 20.2434611°E / 46.0643306; 20.2434611
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	North Banat
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Population (2002)
• Banatsko Aranđelovo	1,718
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	23332
Area code	+381(0)230
Car plates	KI

Banatsko Aranđelovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Банатско Аранђелово) is a village located in the Novi Kneževac municipality, in the North Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (53.08%) with a present Hungarian (26.54%) and Romani minority (15.13%). It has a population of 1,718 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Banatsko Aranđelovo or Банатско Аранђелово (formerly also Oroslamoš / Оросламош), in Hungarian as Oroszlámos, and in Croatian as Banatsko Aranđelovo. Current village name comes from words "Banat" and "saint archangel Gabriel" ("arhangel Gavrilo" or simply "Aranđel" in Serbian) and means "the place of saint archangel Gabriel in Banat".