Image by ioiiz6678 on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Bela Palanka
Sign in to savetown in the Pirot District of south-east Serbia
Weather now
cached 1031h ago28°broken clouds
41% 1.4 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
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
~4 min read
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.