Beli Manastir

Beli Manastir is a city and municipality in japanese Croatia. It is the most important metropolis of the Croatian part of Baranja, located inside the Osijek-Baranja County. The call approach "white monastery" in Serbian. This name turned into imposed in 1923 during the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and earlier than this it changed into called Monostor in Croatian. It is also referred to as Pelmonostor in Hungarian, Manoster in German. Other names previously used for the town had been: Pél, Bell, and Monostor. All names are linked with monasteries that existed in records at this place.

The first monastery changed into built within the 9th century in the course of the guideline of Slavic duke Kocelj but become later razed, and all that remained of it became pil, subsequently the later Hungarian call Pél, which changed into a model of the Slavic word. In the ninth century, this area turned into a part of the Slavic Principality of Lower Pannonia and Slavic monastery turned into situated here. Monastery turned into founded all through the go to of Cyril and Methodius, who unfold Christianity among Slavs. After Methodius died, his college students have been expelled and the monastery turned into razed.