Zrenjanin (srb)

Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin ranks 1,295th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Harlow, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Dehradun. Memorable people born in Zrenjanin include Slobodan Dubajić, Boško Abramović, and Zvonimir Vujin. Memorable people who died in Zrenjanin include Boško Abramović, Zvonimir Vujin, and Milan Nenadić. Zrenjanin has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many athletes, and chess players. Zrenjanin is located in Serbia.

Zrenjanin is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 105,722 inhabitants. The old name for Zrenjanin is Veliki Bečkerek or Nagybecskerek as it was known under Austria-Hungary up until 1918. After World War I and the liberation of Veliki Bečkerek the new name of the city was Petrovgrad, in honor of His Majesty King Peter I the Great Liberator, the King of Serbia and the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Read more on Wikipedia