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Bela Palanka
Sign in to savetown in the Pirot District of south-east Serbia
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Place details
- Locality
- Општина Бела Паланка
- Region
- Central Serbia
- Country
- Србија
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- Europe/Belgrade
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Serbia
- Region
- Southern and Eastern Serbia
- District
- Pirot
- Mayor
- Goran Miljković ( SNS )
- Urban
- 8.28 km (3.20 sq mi)
- Municipality
- 551 km (213 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 394 m (1,293 ft)
- Town
- 7,140
- Town density
- 862/km (2,230/sq mi)
- Municipality density
- 18.1/km (46.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Area code
- +381(0)18
- Car plates
- PI
- Website
- www .belapalanka .org .rs
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Serbia
- Located in
- Bela Palanka Municipality
- Area
- 517
- Elevation
- 394
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Bela Palanka Municipality
- Official website
- belapalanka.org.rs
- Image
- Bela Palanka pogled sa brda.JPG
- Dialing code
- 18
- Licence plate code
- PI
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- Commons category
- Bela Palanka
- topic's main category
- Category:Bela Palanka
- postal code
- 18310
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bela Palanka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бела Паланка, pronounced [bɛ̂ːlaː pǎlaːŋka]) is a town and municipality located in the Pirot District of southeastern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of the town is 7,140, and the population of the municipality is 9,947. In ancient times, the town was known as Remesiana in Dacia Mediterranea. The name Bela Palanka means 'white town'.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bela Palanka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.