Bavanište

Bavanište (Serbian Cyrillic: Баваниште) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District of Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.37%) and its population numbers 6,106 people (2002 census).

Name
In Serbian the village is known as Bavanište (Баваниште), in Romanian as Bavaniște, in Hungarian as Homokbálványos, and in German as Bawanischte.

Historical population

 * 1948: 5,805
 * 1953: 6,066
 * 1961: 6,133
 * 1971: 6,322
 * 1981: 6,412
 * 1991: 6,517