Glogonj

Glogonj belongs to Pancevo municipal - Autonomous Province of Vojvodina - Republic of Serbia - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The GPS coordinates for Glogonj are Latitude 44° 59'N, Longitude 20° 33'E & Altitude 75 m.

The village is on the contact of alluvial plate of the river Tamis, and Banat plate .
Glogonj village belongs into a group of littoral establishments, and lines with the area of the next settlements:
Sefkerin, Crepaja, Jabuka & district of the city Belgrade.

Something about relief of Glogonj
Alluvial plate solicitude lowest parts of the area lying between left coast of the river Tamiš & a part of Banat plate on the altitude of 73 meters.
Banat plate occupies the biggest part of the village Glogonj with altitude of 75 - 79 meters.
There are a lot of underground & surface water.
Glogonj is supplying with drinking water from the three wells, whose deep reaches 96 meters.
On Glogonj territory river Tamiš has low downfall, what is the reason for winding, that developed bight & backwater. The rivers high water-level produce danger of the often floods.
On the village Glogonj district prevailing land structure is mold, and so called 'solonjec' around the river Tamiš.

Settlement | map | map 1885 |

Glogonj belongs to a group of the river Tamis settlements.
Settlement has rectangular shape,( with the length of the 2000, an the width of the 800 meters ) with rectilinear & crosswise placed streets. The village is panonic type, center of the village is broad, and the streets are 20-40 meters wide.
The road what links Pancevo & Opovo go throughout main street.
There are 6 streets, whose are lying northwest - southeast, with next names at this moment:
Tamiška, Oslobodjenja, ”1.Maj", Školska, Mlinska & “4.Oktobar”.
On the north-west end you can find the first transverse street (houses are only at one side) named Utrinska - lies from southwest - north east, followed by:
Partizanska, ”29.Novembra”, Proleterska, Beogradska, JNA, “8.Marta”, Borisa Kidrica
& Žarka Zrenjanina. Center of the village still bear name - Trg Maršala Tita
Every house has courtyard with buildings for agricultural needs, and kitchen-gardens or orchard in the dip.
In the center of the village you can find a park, square shape ( 210x170 meters ).
Foot-paths are concreted in 1988 (before that there was not any cradle), they cat each other diagonally, and the others cut the park in 4 equal square parts.
In the village you have primary school, ambulance station, aqueduct, telephones in 70% of the houses, and gas pipeline.

Economy

In Glogonj most important industry is agriculture.
District is rectangular whit altogether surfaces of the 4291,5 ha,
part of that land is farmland, what occupy 4086,7 ha .
Arable land occupy 3036,1 ha or 74,3%.
And uncultivated land occupies a notable territory:
grass-land 324.8 ha, forest 548.5 ha, until unproductive land overtake 308,9 ha.
In private sector there is 2052.6 ha (47,8%), until corporate sector overtake 2238.9 ha (52,2%).
On Glogonj territory in sowing structure main place takes cereal: wheat, corn & barley.
After that you can find sunflower, soya & sugar-beet.
Gardening is highly developed - most important culture is potato ( is developed growing of 'young' potato), also bean, onion, tomato, paprika. Part of that production is assigned to market-place in Pancevo & Belgrade.
Cattle-breeding is as a matter of fact in decrease & you can find it only in private sector.

Public property corporation "Glogonj" - PIK-a "Tamiš" possessing (data from 1991) altogether 1237 ha arable land. They cultivate usual rural culture and main is cereal: wheat (383ha), corn (309ha) & barley (38ha). After that you can find sunflower (123ha), soya (156ha) & sugar-beet (128ha).

* SOURCE - PROVINCIAL INSTITUTE FOR STATISTIC, Statistic bulletin 206, Novi Sad 1991.

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River Tamiš - naturally

Sometime Tamis was creek of river Tisa, but during the time displaced it's own delta southward & become affluent of the river Danube.
Delta was near to today's effluence Karaš.
Tamis is bringing a lot of water from upper streaming, frequently it's behavior is like wild river.
Because of so little inclination & tray, Tamis frequently lap dissolves.
Filling his delta and lap dissolving, Tamis changed the direction toward Danube, he splinted in to a few creeks: Karaš & Dunavac on the NW from Opovo; Vizelj on the South of Borca ; Sibnica of the SE from Ovca & Tamiš (main delta at Pancevo).
Vizelj ( Hungarian name) inflows in Dunav at 2 places :
like Dunavac, north of Belgrade & like Kalovita, south of Ovca.
Vizelj & Kalovita are linked with Sebeš.