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Košutnjak
Košutnjak ( sr-cyr, Кошутњак, ) is a park-forest and urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between in the municipalities of Čukarica (upper and central parts) and Rakovica (lower part). With the adjoining Topčider, it is colloquially styled "Belgrade's oxygen factory". The 1923 Belgrade's general plan, in which one of the main projects regarding the green areas was forestation of the area between Topčider and the city, envisioned a continuous green area Senjak – Topčidersko Brdo – Hajd Park – Topčider – Košutnjak, which was formed by the 1930s. This continual forested area makes the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue. Etymology The name, ''košutnjak'', is derived from the medieval hunting forests of the Serbian nobility, meaning '' doe's breeder''. (In Serbian, košuta means ''doe'', ''hind''), as does used to live freely in the park until the World War I. The name was mentioned f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmski Grad
Filmski Grad ( sr-cyr, Филмски Град) is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location Filmski Grad is a small neighborhood (sub-neighborhood of Košutnjak, actually), comprising several streets, located along the right side of the ''Kneza Višeslava'' Street, between the Košutnjak park on the north and east, Skojevsko Naselje on the south and Cerak-Cerak Vinogradi on the west. History Mitra Mitrović, Mitra Mitrović Đilas, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia), Serbian minister of education, summoned Yugoslav army's liaison officer Dejan Obradović in 1945 and notified him that he was selected to organize film making in the state. After his response that he knew nothing about it, Mitrović Đilas said that was exactly the reason he was selected, and gave him a list of duties. The first was to select a locality in Belgrade f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topčider
Topčider ( sr-cyr, Топчидер; ) is a forest park and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between the municipalities of Čukarica, Rakovica and Savski Venac. Being close to downtown, it is one of the major locations for relaxation, picnics and fresh air for the citizens of Belgrade. As a result of the 1923 Belgrade's general plan, where one of the main projects regarding the green areas was forestation of the area between Topčider and the city, a continuous green area Senjak-Topčidersko Brdo-Hajd Park-Topčider-Košutnjak was formed by the 1930s. This continuous forested area makes the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue. Nobelist author Ivo Andrić wrote: "You just hang on to Topčider and Košutnjak...Topčider is my favorite place, where I ate bread and drank wine in the sweetest and calmest manner". Location Geographically, Topčider covers a much larger area than what people generally re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banovo Brdo
Banovo Brdo ( sr-cyrl, Баново брдо, ) is a neighbourhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location Banovo Brdo is bounded by the neighborhoods of Čukarica and Čukarička Padina in the west, Ada Ciganlija and Careva Ćuprija in the north, Topčider and Košutnjak in the east and Žarkovo and Julino Brdo in the south. Eastern parts of Banovo Brdo make two sub-neighborhoods, Golf Naselje and Sunčana Padina. Banovo Brdo is away from downtown Belgrade and stretches along both sides of the major traffic and commercial route in this part of the city, the ''Požeška'' Street. History In the mid-2010s, members of the Urban Development Center, who explore and document the Belgrade's underground, discovered an ancient ''lagum'', underground corridor in the ''Radnička'' street. It was dug under the foothills of Banovo Brdo, in the slope of the white stone. The ''lagum'' is large, with spacious, hand chiseled hallways. After it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žarkovo
Žarkovo ( sr-cyr, Жарково, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location and divisions Žarkovo (Greater Žarkovo) is one of the most populous single neighborhoods of Belgrade. As such, it is divided in several sub-neighborhoods, which were built as Žarkovo's extensions: Julino Brdo and Repište to the north, Cerak- Cerak II to the west and Bele Vode and Rupčine to the south. In general, Greater Žarkovo is bordered by the Čukarica, Banovo Brdo and Sunčana Padina to the north, Košutnjak (with Filmski Grad) to the east, Skojevsko Naselje and Cerak Vinogradi to the northeast and Makiš to the west. On the south, it is bordered by the open fields of ''Stari Lanci'', ''Novi Lanci'' and ''Rupčine'', but with the urbanized strip of land alongside the Belgrade-Bar railway and the ''Vodovodska Street'' it makes a continuous built-up area with Železnik to the southwest. Etymology The village was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanarevo Brdo
Kanarevo brdo ( sr-cyr, Канарево брдо, meaning "Kanar's Hill") is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica. Location Kanarevo Brdo is located in the northwestern section of the municipality, on the border of the municipality of Voždovac. It lies in the valley of the stream of ''Kaljavi potok'', on its mouth into the Topčiderka river. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Banjica, Topčider and Lisičji Potok on the north, Košutnjak on the west, Rakovica on the southeast, Miljakovac I on the south and Miljakovac II on the east. The neighborhood is bounded by the streets of ''Patrijarha Dimitrija'' (west), ''Pere Velimirovića'' (north) and '' Borska'' (east and south). History Kanarevo Brdo developed on the right bank of the Topčiderka river, in southern section of the large park-woods Košutnjak and Topčider, on the road connecting downtown Belgrade to, at that time, industrial suburb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf Naselje
Golf Naselje ( Serbian Cyrillic: Голф Насеље) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location Golf Naselje is a modern settlement in the vicinity of the sport center Košutnjak, the easternmost extension of the Banovo Brdo. It is bordered by the Košutnjak park to the north and east, Sunčana Padina to the south and Banovo Brdo to the west. Restaurant Golf Predating the neighborhood, a restaurant was built on top of Košutnjak in c.1930. It was designed by Dragiša Brašovan, as a rustic edifice with cellar, ground floor and a loft. The main façade, facing the garden, is made of 5 large, arched, glassed openings. The middle one serves as the door between the winter salon and summer garden. Main entrance into the restaurant is built on the side of the building. In 1936, golf courses were built around the restaurant, which gave the name to the venue. There were 9 greens and foreign ambas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakovica, Belgrade
Rakovica ( sr-cyr, Раковица, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has 108,641 inhabitants. The municipality of Rakovica is located south of downtown Belgrade. It is bordered by the municipalities of Savski Venac on the north, Voždovac on the west and Čukarica on the east and south. Its neighborhood of Resnik marks the southernmost point of the Belgrade City Proper (''uža teritorija grada''). History The first settlement on the territory of present-day Rakovica was mentioned in the Ottoman 1560 population census as a village called ''Vlaha''. Tradition has it that the place got its name after the crayfish (Serbian: ''rak'', ''rakovica''), which allegedly inhabited the Rakovički potok which streamed through the village. The first mention of the monastery, already under the name of Rakovica, was from the 17th century. The village gradually turned into a suburb and then the neighborhood of Belgrade, one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repište, Belgrade
Repište ( Serbian Cyrillic: Репиште, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location Repište actually makes the eastern part of the Žarkovo neighborhood, bordered by the Banovo Brdo and Sunčana Padina to the north, Sports Center Košutnjak to the east, Cerak to the south and Žarkovo itself to the west. History Prior to urbanization, the hilly area above Repište was known as the grapevine growing area. A report from 1970 described Repište as a "new neighborhood" that many Belgraders from downtown were not familiar with. At the time, Repište had pleasant houses with yards and gardens, but the streets had no pavements or street lights. Still, it also appeared as a large construction yard since many houses weren't finished. Characteristics It is almost exclusively a residential area. The name of the neighborhood, Repište, means ''turnip The turnip or white turnip (''Brassica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunčana Padina
Sunčana Padina ( Serbian Cyrillic: Сунчана падина) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Sunčana Padina is the southern extension of Banovo Brdo neighborhood, bordered by Golf Naselje and Banovo Brdo to the north, Košutnjak to the east, and Žarkovo Žarkovo ( sr-cyr, Жарково, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location and divisions Žarkovo (Greater Žarkovo) is one of the most populous single neighborhoods of B ...'s extensions of Repište to the south and Julino Brdo to the east. Sunčana Padina is a new neighborhood, stretching partially into the area of the Sports Center Košutnjak to the west. The name of the neighborhood is descriptive: Sunčana Padina is Serbian for ''sunny slope'' Neighborhoods of Belgrade Čukarica {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Čukarica
Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. Name Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refinery, there was a kafana in the second half of the 19th century. It was very popular as it was located at the point where two roads, one from Obrenovac and other from Šumadija, meet at the entrance to Belgrade. It was owned by Stojko Čukar and after him the kafana was named “Čukareva kafana” which later gave name to the settlement. History The village of Čukarica asked to be transferred to the Belgrade municipality in 1906, but the plea was rejected. It was transferred from the Vračar ''Srez'' under the administration of the Belgrade municipality on 8 July 1907. Municipality of Čukarica was established for the first time on 30 December 1911. After a popular referendum, inhabitants of Čukarica voted to split from the municipality of Žarkovo and as a result were giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skojevsko Naselje
Skojevsko Naselje ( Serbian Cyrillic: Скојевско Насеље) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica. Location Skojevsko Naselje is located in the north-western part of the municipality, on the border of the municipality of Čukarica. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Rakovica (on the east and south), Cerak Vinogradi (on the west) and Košutnjak and Filmski Grad (on the north). Characteristics Skojevsko Naselje is small, elongated neighborhood, bounded by the streets of ''Kneza Višeslava'' on the north and ''Luke Vojvodića'' on the south. The area is entirely residential. ''Luke Vojvodića'' street was previously named ''Skojevska Nova'' which was parallel to the ''Skojevska'' street (present ''Godominska'') and this is how the neighborhood got its name (see SKOJ League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, commonly known in English as the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia, or simply Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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