title: Bavanište
text: # Bavanište
  
  Bavanište (Serbian Cyrillic: Баваниште) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District of Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.37%) and its population numbers 6,106 people (2002 census).
  
  ## Name
  
  In Serbian the village is known as Bavanište (Баваниште), in Romanian as Bavaniște, in Hungarian as Homokbálványos, and in German as Bawanischte.
  
  ## Historical population
  
  * 1948: 5,805
  * 1953: 6,066
  * 1961: 6,133
  * 1971: 6,322
  * 1981: 6,412
  * 1991: 6,517
  
  ## Major ethnic groups
  
  | Year | Total | Serbs | Romani | Macedonians | Yugoslavs | Hungarians | Romanians | Croats | Rest |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1991 | 6,517 | 87.32% | 6.82% | 0.87% | 1.93% | 0.75% | 0.29% | 0.38% | 1.64% |
  | 2002 | 6,106 | 89.37% | 6.73% | 0.58% | 0.26% | 0.60% | 0.26% | 0.613% | 2.03% |
  