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Grocka Bazaar
Grocka ( sr-cyr, Гроцка, ) or Grocka na Dunavu ( sr-cyr, Гроцка на Дунаву, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has 83,906 inhabitants. Location and geography The municipality is located east of Belgrade, in the northern part of Šumadija region, with the northern section being part of the Podunavlje macro-region in the valley of the Danube, while the southern section is located around the valley of the Ralja River, which is a tributary to the Velika Morava's arm of Jezava. With an altitude of 71 meters above sea level, the town of Grocka is one of the lowest parts of Belgrade. Other rivers in the municipality are Bolečica and Gročica ( sr-cyr, Грочица). Being polluted, in March 2019 the environmentalists described both rivers as "less of a watercourses, more of a sewage watersheds". History The municipality of Grocka became part of the wider Belgrade City area in 1955. In 1957 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subdivisions Of Belgrade
Serbia's capital city of Belgrade is divided into 17 municipalities. Most of the municipalities are situated on the southern side of the Danube and Sava rivers, in the Šumadija region. Three municipalities (Zemun, Novi Beograd, and Surčin) are on the northern bank of the Sava, in the Syrmia region, and the municipality of Palilula, spanning the Danube, is in both the Šumadija and Banat regions. Municipalities Governmental structure A municipality is a part of the territory of the City of Belgrade, in which certain operations of local self-government laid down by the City Charter are run. Pursuant to the Constitution, legislation, present Charter and bylaws of the municipality, the citizens participate in conducting operations of the municipality through the councilors elected to the municipal assembly, civil initiative, local citizens’ meeting and referendum. The bodies of the municipality are: *Municipal Assembly *Municipal Council The number of councilors in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begaljica
Begaljica ( sr-cyr, Бегаљица ()) is a rural settlement in the Grocka municipality of eastern Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of 15 settlements of Grocka, situated in its centre, with a population of 8,233 according to the 2011 preliminary census. The village is located at the water source of the Begaljica river, a tributary of the Danube, thus in the southern half of Podunavlje, as well as in the fertile Šumadija region of central Serbia. Begaljica was first mentioned in 1528, seven years after the Ottoman conquest of Serbia, as having 5 families, and the Rajinovac monastery on the hill above the village. As the region was located on the Ottoman-Habsburg war frontier, villages were constantly destroyed and deserted. In fact, the village of Begaljica (literally "fleeing town") derived its name from these events. In 1804, a notable ''knez'' from the village, Stevan Andrejević Palalija, was executed alongside some 70 nobles by the janissaries. This event sparked the First S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Živkovac
Živkovac ( Serbian Cyrillic: Живковац) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Živkovac is located in the northern Šumadija region and it is the easternmost settlement in the municipality and of the City of Belgrade. It is situated on the Ralja river, on both the railway Belgrade-Požarevac and the highway Belgrade-Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ..., 44 km southeast of Belgrade and 15 km south of the municipal seat of Grocka. Živkovac is also the smallest of all settlements in the municipality, with population of 438 in 1991 and 380 in 2002. It is statistically classified as a rural settlement (village) and its economy is solely based on agriculture. Subur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaklopača (Grocka)
Zaklopača ( Serbian Cyrillic: Заклопача) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Location Zaklopača is located in the central part of the municipality, 8 km west of the municipal seat of Grocka and 25 km east of Belgrade. It is located on the road connecting the road of ''Smederevski put'' to the north and the highway Belgrade-Niš to the south, with another branch of the road connecting Zaklopača directly to Grocka to the east. Name Name of the village is unusual, but the origin of it is obscured. One of the explanations is that it is because the village is closed or covered by the surrounding hills (in Serbian: ''zaklopiti'') while the other is that a certain Turkish pasha was slaughtered (Serbian: zaklati) in the area. Both those explanations, though, are probably just folk etymology. History First mention of the village is from 1528 in Turkish census of the villages in the Nahiye of Belgrade, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrčin
Vrčin ( Serbian Cyrillic: Врчин) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Name Though the village itself was mentioned much later, historians Dušan J. Popović and Vladimir Ćorović traced the name of the locality back to the Roman period and the nearby temple of rcinium. It was dedicated to the Etruscan-Roman goddess of destiny, Nortia. After Slavic settlement, Roman names ending with ''-cin um' were mostly contracted to ''čin'', while suffix ''-dunum'' was morphed into ''din''. rcinium was thus shortened to rčin and then modified to Vrčin. Geography Vrčin is located southeast of Avala mountain, in the central-eastern part of the municipality, 20 km southeast of Belgrade and 14 km west of the municipal seat of Grocka. It is situated in the spring area of the Bolečica river and is a major crossroad located on the Belgrade-Požarevac railway, the Belgrade-Niš highway, a regional road c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinča
Vinča ( sr-cyr, Винча, ) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is part of the municipality of Grocka. Vinča-Belo Brdo, an important archaeological site that gives its name to the Neolithic Vinča culture, is located in the village. Location Vinča is located on the confluence of the Bolečica river into the Danube, on the Danube's right bank, east of Belgrade and west of its own municipal seat of Grocka. It is situated along the stream of ''Makački potok'', which empties into the Bolečica. Population Vinča is statistically classified as a rural settlement (village). Originally it was situated 3 km from the road of ''Smederevski put'', but as the settlement expanded it now stretches from the Danube to the ''Smederevski put'', making urbanistic connections to the surrounding settlements of Ritopek, Boleč, Leštane and Kaluđerica, though making one continuous built-up area with Belgrade itself. Like the surrounding settlements, Vinča is an immigra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umčari
Umčari ( Serbian Cyrillic: Умчари) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Umčari is located in the southeastern part of the municipality, in the northern Šumadija region. It is situated on the Ralja river, on both the railway Belgrade-Požarevac and the highway Belgrade-Niš, 40 km southeast of Belgrade and 11 km south of the municipal seat of Grocka. Umčari is statistically classified as a rural settlement (village). For 70 years the population of the village stagnated but began depopulating in the 1990s. The population of Umčari: * 1921 - 3,560 * 1971 - 3,400 * 1981 - 3,398 * 1991 - 3,487 * 2002 - 2,880 The economy is based solely on agriculture. Umčari was the seat of its own municipality until the early 1960s when it was disbanded and annexed to the municipality of Grocka. Fifth century BC Greek ornamented silver belts, pins, brooches and more were found at excavations of gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritopek
Ritopek (Serbian Cyrillic: Ритопек, ) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka, 20 km east of Belgrade and 19 km west of the municipal seat, on the right bank of the Danube, across from the village of Ivanovo in Banat region of the Vojvodina province. History Pre-Roman artifacts from the Late Iron Age, have been discovered in Ritopek. The most representative is the Scythian styled pendant from the 5th century BC, a representation of a stylized griffin's head with tentacles. The remains belonging to the Scordisci, a Celtic tribe which founded Singidunum, the predecessor of Belgrade, were also found in Ritopek. In Roman times, the fortress of Tricornium (Latin for "three-horned fortification") existed at the site of Ritopek. It contained an important military camp ''Castra Tricornia''. The name originated from three distinctive hills dominating the landscape, one of which was later washed away into the Danube r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pudarci
Pudarci ( Serbian Cyrillic: Пударци) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Pudarci is located in the eastern part of the municipality, 41 km southeast of Belgrade and 7 km south of the municipal seat Grocka. It is on the crossroad of the Grocka-Umčari and Brestovik-Umčari roads, both of which connect the road of ''Smederevski put'' and the highway Belgrade-Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while .... One branch of the road connects Pudarci with Kamendol, 2 km to the east. Pudarci is classified as a rural settlement (village). It is a depopulating place, with the population of 1,643 in 1991 and 1,410 in 2002. Suburbs of Belgrade Šumadija {{BelgradeRS-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leštane
Leštane ( sr-cyr, Лештане) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka. Location Leštane is located 15 km east of Belgrade, originally further away from the major roads. As the settlement expanded, it reached the both major ''Smederevski put'' and ''Kružni put'' roads and in the last decade expanded even further. It is located on the mouth of the ''Kaluđerički potok'' into the Bolečica river. The name of the settlement is one of the variants for '' hazel grove'' in the Serbian language . Population Leštane is one of the fastest growing suburbs of Belgrade, especially since the mid-1970s, experiencing an annual growth of over 10% in 1971-1981 period. It is still classified as a rural settlement (village) though agriculture is no longer an important branch of the economy. Population of Leštane: * 1971 - 1,484 * 1981 - 4,019 * 1991 - 6,681 * 2002 - 8,492 Leštane is more populous than its municipal seat, Grocka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamendol
Kamendol ( Serbian Cyrillic: Камендол) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Grocka. Kamendol is located in the eastern part of the municipality, near the border of the municipality of Grocka (and the City of Belgrade) and municipality of Smederevo (and the Podunavlje District). It is 10 km away from the municipal seat of Grocka, and over 40 km east of Belgrade. Kamendol is halfway on the Brestovik-Umčari road, which connects the road of ''Smederevski put'' and Belgrade-Niš highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-acces .... Kamendol is a small, depopulating village (population of 1,372 in 1991 and 1,067 in 2002). The name of the village is Serbian for the ''rock valley''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaluđerica
Kaluđerica ( sr-Cyrl, Калуђерица, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka. Location Kaluđerica is the westernmost settlement in the municipality of Grocka. It is located 6 kilometers east of central Belgrade and stretches in two fork-like urban formations between the road of ''Smederevski put'' to the north and the Belgrade-Niš highway to the south. The settlement is built in the hollow (micro valley of the ''Kaluđerički potok'' creek), with a specific microclimate, so out of all parts of Belgrade Kaluđerica is often the foggiest and the first one to have snow in winter. History Kaluđerica originated during the Ottoman rule of Serbia. A group of refugees who fled the Turks, settled at the bottom of the valley between two major roads. They cleared the thick woods around the creek and up to the 1950s, the settlement was predominantly agrarian, with most of the inhabitants working in agriculture and cattle bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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