Arkadije Belan
Arkadija Belan also spelled Arkadije Bjelanović was a prominent member of a Serbian family from the town of Szeged. In 1805, he was listed as the church commissioner. The senator is also mentioned in 1810 as Arkadije ot Belan, which shows that this Szeged family received nobility at the beginning of the 19th century. Arkadije was one of the biggest contributors to the "school foundation" in Szeged.3
The Belan family can be traced to Szeged. Several members of this respectable family are mentioned in that place. Thus, Petar Belan from Szeged, who later acquired a house plot in Santandreja, is mentioned as the founder of the honorary table of the Bodjani monastery. The inscription on this table, which dates from 1761, states that it is a gift from master Petar "Beljanović" for the eternal memory of his life and his late parents, "the inhabitants of the famous Szeged royal town". Peter was the tutor (epitrope) of the Szeged Nikolajevska church, since its founding in 1778 and the main founder in the construction of the tower of this church in 1781. Master Petar Belan, a buyer and burger (merchant and citizen) of the free royal town of Szeged, donated, together with his grandson Nikolai, in 1784 a copper engraving to the local church of St. Nicholas. In the same year, he was one of the three largest contributors to the church, with 1,000 forints paid. He was later a delegate to the Timisoara Parliament (1790). The gilded silver cross was donated by Peter to the Church of St. Nicholas in Szeged in 1792.1
The Szeged Home Protocol states the household of Petar Belanović. It is 1774/75 had 7 members, the same as 1776/77. and 1778/79. years. Next, 1780/81. grew to 8 members, to 1782/83. In the year 1784, there were a total of 7 Belanovićs in Peter's household, and in 1785 there were 8. "Citizen" Petar Belan had between 7 and 13 souls in his home in the period from 1786 to 1799.2
Szeged Senator Arkadija Belan was another prominent member of this family. In 1805, he was listed as the church commissioner. The mentioned senator is mentioned in 1810 as Arkadije ot Belan, which shows that this Szeged family received nobility at the beginning of the 19th century. Arkady was one of the biggest contributors to the "school foundation" in Szeged.3
Petrus Bellan Szegediens is from Szeged was the owner of the Sentandrej house plot number 464 in 1787. The tenant Pavle Ribnik was recorded in that house.4
In the Orthodox registry books in Santandreja, members of this family are also mentioned as Belanovići.5
Jovan Belanović was allegedly born "within the military border". This information certainly refers to Szeged, which is from 1702/3. was the seat of the Push of the Military Border, which was disbanded in the middle of the 18th century. In 1798 he was school principal at Santandreia. On July 26, 1814, Uroš Nestorović characterized Jovan Belanović, a "wine merchant and former senator", as an "enthusiastic Russophile". Among the subscribers to Karadzic's "Serbian Dictionary" from 1818 was Sentandrej Senator Jovan Belanovic. The ode "On the Death of Joan Belanović, Senator of Sentandrejski" was composed by Lukijan Mušicki.6
Jovan's daughter Jelena was married to a citizen of Pest and a rich merchant, the Serbized Cincarina Naum Bozda. She is remembered as a great benefactor of the Santandrei school, the orphanage in this place, as well as other institutions.7
The text is a modified separate from the book: Aleksandar Bačko, Iz prošlosti sentandrejskih porodica, Zbornik za srpsku etnografiju i istoriju, kn. 3, Belgrade 2009, 46 - 47. This monograph received the Mile Nedeljković Award in 2010, as the best work in the field of contemporary folklore in the Serbian language.
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1. Stevan S. Đurđević, Srbi u Szegedinu, S.A.N, Spomenik CVIII, Odeljenje drustvenih nauka, Nova serija, 10, Beograd 1960. (hereinafter: Đurđević), 109 - 112.
2. Djurdjevic, 120; Душан.. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga druga, od Karlovačkog mira 1699. do Timišvarskog sabora 1790, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1990, 427 - 429.
3. Đurđević, 102 - 103.
4. Ferenc Museum, Census 1787, 28.
5. Natalija Petrović, Patronymics of Some Serbian Settlements in Hungary, Contributions to the Study of Languages, 12, Department of South Slavic Languages, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Novi Sad 1976, 128.
6. Slavko Gavrilović, Gradja bečkih arhiva o Prvom srpskom ustanku, kn. V (1814), S.A.N.U, Zbornik za istoriju, jezik i književnost srpskog naroda - II odeljenje, kn. XXXV, Department of Historical Sciences - Committee for the History of the Serbian Revolution 1814, Belgrade 2003, 246; Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Srpski rječnik 1818, Sabrana dela Vuka Karadžića, knjiga druga, Prosveta, Beograd 1966, XXVII; Dejan Medaković, Dinko Davidov, Sentandreja, Belgrade 1982 (hereinafter: Medaković, Davidov), 105; Душан.. Popović, Serbs in Bačka until the end of the eighteenth century, S.A.N.U, Special editions, vol. CXCIII, Ethnographic Institute, vol. 3, Belgrade 1952, 31 - 32, 63 - 64; Živko Vidak, Serbian Schools in Santandreja, its teachers, students and benefactors, Vojvodina Museum, Rad vojvodjanskih muzeja 11, Novi Sad 1962 (hereinafter: Vidak), 38; Pavle Sofrić, Moments from the Past and Present of the Town of Santandreja, Library of Lighting, Vol. 2, Pancevo 1994, 63.
7. Vidak, 44; Fedora Bikar, Santandreja in the Mirror of the Past, Novi Sad 2003, 255.
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