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Zrenjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Зрењанин, ; Hungarian: ''Nagybecskerek''; (スロバキア語:Zreňanin)) is a city located in the eastern part of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District. The city's population is 76,511, while the Zrenjanin county has 123,362 inhabitants (2011 census data). Zrenjanin is the largest city in the Serbian Banat, the third largest city in Vojvodina (after Novi Sad and Subotica) and the sixth largest city of Serbia. ==Name== The city was named after Žarko Zrenjanin Uča (1902–1942) in honour and remembrance of his name in 1946. He was one of the leaders of the Vojvodinian Communists and Partisans. During World War II, he was imprisoned and released after being tortured by the Nazis for months. Later he was killed while trying to escape from being recaptured. The former Serbian name of the city was ''Bečkerek'' (Бечкерек) or ''Veliki Bečkerek'' (Велики Бечкерек). In 1935 the city was renamed to ''Petrovgrad'' (Петровград) in honor of king Peter I of Serbia. It was called ''Petrovgrad'' from 1935 to 1946. In Hungarian, the city is known as ''Nagybecskerek'', in German as ''Großbetschkerek'' or ''Betschkerek'', in Romanian as ''Becicherecul Mare'' or ''Zrenianin'', in Slovak as ''Zreňanin'', in Rusin as ''Зрењанин'', in Croatian as ''Zrenjanin'', and in Turkish as ''Beşkelek'' (meaning ''five melons'') or ''Beçkerek''. It is assumed that Zrenjanin's original name, Bečkerek/Becskerek, comes from Hungarian word ''kerek'' ("forest, grove") and the surname of the 14th-century nobleman, Imre Becsei, who had large estates in the area. Therefore, the name would be translated into English as "Becsei's Forest". The original name received an adjective meaning "great/big/major" in the languages of the Banat ((セルビア語:Veliki) or ''Велики'', Danube Swabian: ''Groß'', (ハンガリー語:Nagy), (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Mare)), to distinguish it from a village of the same name in the Romanian Banat, that is usually referred to as small Bečkerek (cf. Serbian: ''Mali Bečkerek'' or ''Мали Бечкерек'', Danube Swabian: ''Kleinbetschkerek'', (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Becicherecu Mic), (ハンガリー語:Kisbecskerek)). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zrenjanin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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