Plandište

Plandište (Пландиште, plândiːʃte; Zichyfalva; Zichydorf) is a village and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 3,832, while Plandište municipality has 11,336 inhabitants. One of municipality's best known landmarks is Kapetanovo Castle, located in Stari Lec. In Serbian, the village is known as Пландиште or Plandište, in Romanian as Plandiște, in Hungarian as Zichyfalva, in German as Zichydorf Zɪdʒidorf , and in Пландиште. The name of the village derived from the word plandovati used in the local Serbian dialect, which in modern standard Serbian means odmarati, and in English means to rest. Banat as part of Pannonia was under Roman rule from 9 BC to the end of the fourth century. In the fifth century, the Huns razed the land. In the ninth century, the Hungarian empire started its reign, and around 1000 AD the Banat became part of the prospering Hungarian empire. In the thirteenth century Genghis Khan invaded Europe. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the Turks took over two-thirds of Hungary, including Banat. In the municipal area of Plandište have been several places in medieval times: Bioseg, Terjan, Sarkac and Raros. These names still exist on 18th-century maps. According to Milleker there were several different villages named Bioseg between 1375 and 1550. They were named O-Belzeg, Nagy-Belzeg und Pervan-Belzeg. The names mean: Prefix bel- or bio- comes from Serbian belu which means white (compare to Belgrade / Beograd). zeg comes from Hungarian sziget meaning island. Pervan is Serbian and means first, which is common at that time and area to distinguish different places of the same name: simply give numbers. Milleker does not tell anything about O-. Maybe it is nothing more than a guess: in German it is common to abbreviate Ober with O- meaning the village located on higher altitude. Nagy is Hungarian and means big. What happened to the villages during the reign of the Ottoman is unknown.