Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin, city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia, on the canalized River Bega near Novi Sad. Industries include vegetable canning, sugar refining, flour milling, brewing, and the manufacture of agricultural equipment, molasses, dried beet pulp, and dairy produce; carpets are made in the surrounding area. Lying in the often disputed Banat region, the city was known as Nagybecskerek when it was part of Hungary before 1919. It then became part of the state later named Yugoslavia, and was called Veliki Bekerek until the 1930s and Petrovgrad until the late 1940s. Population 79,545 (2002).