site.btaBulgaria Backs Three Projects in Serbia’s Banat Village of Ivanovo

Bulgaria is supporting three projects in the Banat village of Ivanovo in Serbia, worth BGN 114, 419.

The money has been allocated for three projects in the village, in 2022 and 2025 - a reconstruction of the library and the Bulgarian language classroom, construction of a heating and cooling system in the cinema hall at the local House of Culture and modification for pupils from 1st to 4th grade of the local school building.

On Tuesday, Bulgarian Ambassador to Serbia Petko Doykov and House of Culture director Marko Guran signed a protocol for additional financing of one of the projects.

Ivanovo is located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia. It was founded by Banat Bulgarians, who came from the village of Star Bisnov, present-day Romania, and Germans, who came from various parts of the historical-geographical region of Banat and then Austria-Hungary. After the village was settled, the land was drained, a river dyke on the Danube was constructed and new arable land appeared.

The Banat Bulgarians were Catholic by religion, originated from north-western and north-central Bulgaria and left their homeland after the failure of the Chiprovtsi Uprising of 1688.

Bulgarian language and Bulgarian folklore are taught in the village of Ivanovo, and teachers are sent from Bulgaria.