Where is Zrenjanin?
Agriculture
Industry
Banks & Insurance
Education
Culture
Brief:
- Capital of the Banat region
- Largest municipality in the Serbian province of Vojvodina
- Population: 140.000 (85.000 – city, 55.000 – villages), 700.000 – Banat region
- 30 million – Southeast Europe Free Trade Area (CEFTA)
- Zrenjanin – ”Little Switzerland in Serbia” - multiethnic and multicultural city - 4 official languages (Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak) - 23 ethnic groups – living together for centuries
- Easy access to other markets
- Excellent transport link via Corridor X
- Center of regional railroad network
- Largest C class airport in the Balkans: “Airport Ecka”
- River Begej: part of Danube–Rein–Mein hydro system connecting North Sea with the Black Sea
- Harbor on river Begej
The town of Zrenjanin lies at longitude 20°24’ east and latitude 45°23’ north, in the middle of Serbian part of Banat, on the coasts of the river Begej surrounded by canals of hydrosystem network Danube-Tisa-Danube. By the area that is covering Municipality of Zrenjanin is currently bigger than 24 states that are members of United Nations. Today Zrenjanin Municipality, covering 1,326 km2, is the largest municipality in AP of Vojvodina by size, and by the population which is more than 140,000 inhabitants, it is the third one. The biggest part of the population (about 85,000) lives in the town itself, and the rest in surrounding villages. The Municipality of Zrenjanin is a multinational community including 23 different nations and nationalities.
The land on the territory of the Municipality is plain so that consequently its structure of economy and industry brings Zrenjanin into the list of bigger agro-industrial centres The most developed part of the economy is industry, employing about 16,750 employees, what is more than one third of the total number of inhabitants capable to work.
A short distance from big industrial centres in four states and good roads, as well as the promotion of closer relations within the region DKTM (Danube, Krish, Tisa, Morish) which covers Vojvodina and districts in both Southern Hungary and Eastern Romania as well as a project of establishing regional cooperation of Vojvodina, Tuzla area in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Osijek District in Croatia., makes Zrenjanin an interesting location for the companies striving for the market in more than one country. The essential surrounding industrial centres are as follows:
Belgrade 80 km south
Novi Sad 50 km west
Subotica 130 km north-west
Timisoara, Romania 100 km north-east
Arad, Romania 150 km north-east
Szeged, Hungary 130 km north
Osijek, Croatia 140 km west
Zrenjanin area is the part of the plain which is largely intersected by canals for irrigation systems with an access available to bigger rivers, such as the Danube and the Tisa, and the Begej runs through the town itself. The Danube in the canal system Rein-Mein it the essential navigable route in Europe. Zrenjanin has its own airport, the biggest C class airport on the Balkan, including asphalt runway and necessary infrastructure (storehouses, plane barns, the Customs offices) suitable for smaller pasanger, agricultural and cargo planes. The location it is situated on, offers an option of extanded reconstructing to make it suitable for bigger planes too
Agriculture
Municipality of Zrenjanin has all resources for high volume, stable and profitable agricultural manufacturing. With highly developed food industry and high quality products, agriculture is one of the engines and basis for the future growth and development of the municipality.
Plant growing - Municipality of Zrenjanin is located in the central part of Banat region and according to the statistical data, encompasses 78.303 hectares of plough lands. In the municipality there are manufacturing resources for refining sugar- beet, oil, corn, butcher houses, dairy products, beer and non-alcoholic beverages, seeds, cattle feed and tobacco.
Livestock production - Livestock production in the municipality of Zrenjanin consists of cattle, pork, sheep and poultry production.
Fishery - Manufacturing of carp and other fish species for consumption takes place at Ecka fish-pond.
Industry
Zrenjanin is industrial center of the region with many development possibilities.
Food industry - Food industry is the most significant branch of the industry in the municipality.
Metal industry - Metal industry in the municipality of Zrenjanin is one of the oldest branches and certain factories are the oldest in the country in their respective field.
Textile and leather industry - Second in size after agricultural, this industry has significant place in the economy of municipality of Zrenjanin. Companies belonging to this field of industry have existed for longer then a century.
Chemical industry - Chemical industry is represented by FSK, Begej-plast, Jugoremedija, Delhem and Luksol.
Oil and natural gas production - Oil and natural gas are produced in the fields located in the municipality.
Construction - Main construction companies in our municipalities are GIK, Zangrap, Aranžer, Centar, brick and other building material production, isolation materials in building, and other public and privately owned companies.
Electric Power
The total length of the electric system is 1,869.1 km.
Transformation stations number 729; Installed capacity: 532,30 MVA
Water and Sewer systems
Water system is more than 300 km long - including connections 640 km.
Town area includes sewage system of 15 km. There are 95 industrial connections.
Natural Gas - number of households connections: 20,000.
Thermal water sources - Geothermal grade for most of Voivodina is more than 4-5.5 degrees C/100m.
Telecommunications and Internet connectivity (cable, other fixed line, wireless internet) There are 37502 telephone connections. There is cable, wireless internet.
Waste disposal - city dump or regional - there is no regional dump yet, but there is a town disposal station which was reconstruceted in 2002 including 2 compartments for controlled waste disposal, of 200,00 m3 capacity; there are also 14 smaller, unregulated dumps (approximate size 100x 50 m).
Waste recycling - there is plastic (PET) sparation or any other recycling.
Health Care
Num.hospitals 4: General Hospital ''Dr Ðorde Joanovic''; ''Dr Boško Vrebalov'' Clinic; Specialized Lung Diseases Hospital ''Dr Vasa Savic''; Specialized Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Hospital ''Rusanda'' Melenci.
Num.of health clinics or health service centers: 2
Churches 9
Libraries 1
Parks 8
Entertainment venues (theatres 1, cinemas 1, concert halls 1, festivals 4)
There are 23 foreign and domestic banks in Zrenjanin. Some of them are:
- Raiffeisen bank
- Société Générale
- Banca Intesa
- HVB
- Hypo Alpe Adria
- Erste Bank
- National bank of Greece
- Procredit bank
- Meridian Bank – Credit Agricole
- AIK bank
- Kulska bank – OTP
- Zepter bank
- Vojvodanska bank
- Komercijalna bank
- Continental bank
- Metals bank
Most of the banks have their offices located in the main street in the center of the city. Beside banks there are also insurance and leasing companies in Zrenjanin.
Education
Education has a long tradition as well. First schools were founded in 18. century in three languages: Serbian, German and Hungarian. Presently there are 10 primary and 8 secondary schools, and 22 primary schools in surrounding villages. The Grammar School has a 100 year tradition. Yet there are other schools almost as old as this one – Secondary School of Economy (former Academy of Commerce), which was founded in 1895.
Technical College was founded in 1962 with educational profiles needed in the region – in mechanical, food and textile industry. There is a Faculty of Technology ‘Mihajlo Pupin’ with two departments – Technical Pedagogy and Technical Engineering. It offers the following expert profiles:
information technology engineers,
information technology teachers,
technical systems operating engineers, technical system developing engineers, quality managing engineers and technical system operating engineers in the field of medicine.
There are about 12.000 pupils in elementary schools, 7.000 in secondary schools, 1.400 college students, and 2.000 students at the Faculty of Technology ‘Mihajlo Pupin’
2,239 enrolled in the Department of engineering "Mihailo Pupin", University of Novi Sad in Zrenyanin:
arch institutions: Institute of Agriculture A.D., Specialized Veterinary Institute Zrenjanin and A.D Bioecological Center. Research is also conducted by the faculty and students of the "Mihailo Pupin" engineering department, University of Novi Sad.
Average net monthly wage in December 2006 amounted to 29,182 dinars (about 365 euros).
Culture
The town has a long tradition in various fields of cultural creativity – the theatre was built in 1839 (the oldest one in the country), music and fine
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