Besni Fok is a suburban settlement of Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula

Palilula Belgrade

Palilula is an urban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It has the largest area of all municipalities of Belgrade.- Location :...

.

Name

Name comes from the Serbian word besni which means rabid, wild and the old German

German language

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 word fock which means a canal, so the settlement was called wild canal because of the local canal which uncontrollably flooded the area.

Geography

Besni Fok is located in the northern, Banat

Banat

The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania , the western part in northeastern Serbia , and a small...

 section of the municipality, 22 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade. It is built on the Belanoš canal in the marsh of Pančevački Rit

Pancevacki Rit

Pančevački Rit is a small geographical area in south-western Banat, Serbia. It is situated between the rivers Danube and Tamiš, in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Features:...

. The settlement is not classified as a separate one but as a sub-settlement of the 9 kilometers away Padinska Skela to the north. The settlement are both small and don't make one continuous built-up area. However, due to its unusual name and popularity it gained as a fishing resort, Besni Fok is better known.

Besni Fok is located on the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...

 in Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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. The settlement has very bad communal infrastructure.

Since 1967, Besni Fok is a location of the traditional Prvomajski uranak or "Labour Day early outing", celebration of May 1, Labour Day

Labour Day

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. It is traditionally celebrated with the large camp bonfire

Bonfire

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 and a series of sport activities, including sack race

Sack race

The sack race or gunny sack race is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack or pillow case that reaches their waist or neck and jump forward from a starting point toward a finish line. The first person to cross the finish line is the winner of the race.Sack...

, futsal

Futsal

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, tug of war

Tug of war

Tug of war, also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war or rope pulling, is a sport that directly pits two teams against each other in a test of strength. The term may also be used as a metaphor to describe a demonstration of brute strength by two opposing groups, such as a rivalry between two...

, handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 and soccer matches, etc.

Preliv

Sub-settlement of Preliv is a stretched row of some 80 houses 2.5 to 5 kilometers away from Besni Fok. Communal situation is even worse than in the rest of Besni Fok as practically it has no waterworks, roads or even grocery stores. The only economic activity in the settlement is agriculture. The name, preliv, comes from the Serbian word for overspill.