Deliblato
village in Kovin municipality, Serbia
Deliblato (Serbian Cyrillic: Делиблато; Romanian: Deliblata) is a village in Serbia, situated in the Kovin municipality in the Vojvodina province. The village has a total population of 3,498 (2002 census), with a Serb ethnic majority and a Romanian minority. The Deliblatska Peščara (Deliblato Sands), the largest sandy area in Europe, was named after this village.
Name
The name of the village is derived from the Turkish word deli ("Mad") and Serbian word "blato" ("mud"), thus the full meaning in English would be "Mad mud". It is known as Deliblata in Romanian.
Deliblato received its name from its situation in the sandy area. According to one theory, the sandy area, in the vastness of the river Danube, became very muddy during long rain periods in ancient times. The road passing through the area had been easier to cross due to the mixing of mud and sand, thus travelers called this place Deliblato. Sloveni however, the notion of the lake marked by the word 'mud' and it is not excluded that the current village got its name from the large pond that lies around it.
History
The village of Deliblato is first mentioned in 1660, during Ottoman rule, as being populated by ethnic Serbs.
The public source identifies “Deliblato” as village in Kovin municipality, Serbia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Deliblato, village and Kovin.
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