South Banat District, as well as Bela Crkva and its environment, is one of the oldest settlements in Vojvodina, and has a long and varied historical past. Bela Crkva area and its surroundings were inhabited a few thousand years ago, as witnessed by the excavations of tools and weapons made of stone and iron. The Scythians, Celts, Thracians, Dacians used to stay or just pass here, and only at the end of the early Iron Age a new period of history had begun -the period of Roman conquests, which began at the end of I century BC and led to disintegration of prehistoric culture. |
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Bela Crkva valley descends between Vrsac mountains in the north to the south of the Danube and the Carpathian mountains to the east. It is open to the west - the Pannonian Plain, and that is why related to it, Bela Crkva seems its biggish bay. Winds brought plaster clay and sand to the valley. Plaster clay covers all the lower valley areas, while the sand was brought on the west side in the form of long sand dunes in the northwest-southeast direction. This sand separates Bela Crkva from the Deliblato sand. |
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