Besni Fok
| Besni Fok | |
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| Suburban settlement | |
 Besni Fok
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| Coordinates: 45°00′N 20°24′E / 45.000°N 20.400°E | |
| Country |
 Serbia
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| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 1,000 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Website | Leva obala Beograda – Besni Fok |
Besni Fok (Serbian Cyrillic: Бесни Фок) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.
Name comes from the Serbian word besni which means rabid, wild and the old German word fock which means a canal, so the settlement was called wild canal because of the local canal which uncontrollably flooded the area.
Besni Fok is located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality, 28 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade. It is built on the Belanoš canal in the marsh of Pančevački Rit, between the rivers of Danube and Tamiš. Besni Fok is placed on the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin in Vojvodina.
From the late 19th century, the area was intermittently inhabited, mostly by Hungarians and Germans. In the 1930’s sevaral drainage channels were dug, draining the area and making permanent settlement possible. In 1947 first works on the construction began and first settlers came in 1948. The origin and the future development of Besni Fok was closely tied to the Combined Agricultural Enterprise Beograd (PKB Beograd). Originally the settlement consisted of barracks, later of concrete and brick houses, while proper residential buildings were erected in the mid 1970’s. Until the 1970’s, Besni Fok was statistically a separate settlement, but then it was annexed to Padinska Skela, which is located 9 km to the south, becoming its neighborhood, though they don’t make one continuous built-up area.
While it was a separatte settlement, according to the official censuses, Besni Fok had a population of 946 in 1961 and 977 in 1971. Estimated population in 2015 was around 1,000.
Despite being a small and stagnant neighborhood, Besni Fok is quite known in the rest of Belgrade. Some of it comes from a notoriously bad communal infrastucture it has, but also because of its unusual name and popularity it gained as a fishing resort.
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