Orlovat is a settlement of the town of Zrenjanin in the Central Banat District. It is located on the right bank of the Tamiš River, on a lower wooden terrace. The settlement has changed its location and name several times in history. Today’s Orlovat is laid in a place where three legs of the so-called. triangle. According to the 2011 census there were 1516 inhabitants.
Orlovat can be counted among the oldest settlements in Banat. The high right bank of the Tamiš has always been densely populated, as evidenced by numerous archaeological finds. The traces of the Neolithic cultural layer dominate the village. The most famous find is from the Bronze Age, at the Umka site, which represents the highest angle in the surroundings, with a certain culture of the Verbicar.
In its past, it was recorded as a vassal with the right to maintain a fair, under the name Borlod in 1471, and belonged to the metropolitan area. Borlod Square was a crossroads of roads that ran from three directions from Vienna (and Bečej), Titel and Pancevo. As a result of the frequent Turkish downturn, its population has been decreasing, and in 1506, it has become an ordinary village called Barlat.
The name of the village during its lifetime has been changed, so the names of Orlovat: Horlebath, Orloat, Orlovath and others depend on the name of the name Orlovat, depending on who ruled and administered the area. The Hungarian authorities were forced to carry out Hungarianization in 1911. The village changed its name to Orlod in 1911, and it was only formally written until 1921. Orlovat’s name was given by the eagle’s habitat that made nests in the high canopy of ancient oaks on the shore, around which the Tamis Spilled and there is an island, sprue, or at. (Hungarian means “over”), which corresponds perfectly to the appearance of this terrain. An example of such an interpretation testifies to its position as a former site, and today the Old Orlovat in Kutina is located, which is about two kilometers south of today’s village of Orlovat. According to Uros Predic, the village was named after the place of origin of the inhabitants, which may have been called Orlovac. From this name, today’s version is written on paper: Orlovac – Orlovatz – Orlovat.
The most famous Orlovac was born in 1857 – Uroš Predić was an academic painter, who, along with Paja Jovanović, was considered the most important painter among the Serbs. The painter spent a good deal of his life in Orlovat, and in many of his works he has many details from the life of the then Orlovat. Today in Orlovat there is no preserved house of Uros Predic, but the memory of it is kept by the modest “Memorial Room” opened in 2007.