Široka Bara ( sr-Cyrl, Широка Бара) is a

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and musk ...

and also a

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Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

, the capital of

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. Both are located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Bog

Široka Bara is an elongated bog, located in the western section of the

floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...

of the

Pančevački Rit Pančevački Rit ( sr-cyr, Панчевачки рит) is a small geographical area in south-western Banat, Serbia. It is situated between the rivers Danube and Tamiš, in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Features Its wetland was cons ...

, one of the remaining undried patches within it. It stretches for some 10 kilometers along the left bank of the

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(approximately from 1183 to 1192 kilometer of the Danube, curving away from the river in the south), while its width varies from 1 to 3 kilometers. It is marshy flooded area, made of smaller ponds and many canals and its name, ''široka bara'', comes from Serbian for ''wide bog''. It is located on the altitude of 78 meters, and apart from the Danube as its western border, it is connected to the canals of Vrbovski (east and north) and Veliki (south-east). Villages of

Stari Banovci Stari Banovci ( sr-cyr, Стари Бановци) is a suburban settlement in Serbia. It is located in the Stara Pazova municipality, in the region of Syrmia (Syrmia District), Vojvodina province. Stari Banovci, Banovci-Dunav and Novi Banovci for ...

and

Novi Banovci Novi Banovci () is a settlement in Serbia by the Danube River. It is situated in the Stara Pazova municipality, in the Srem District, in Vojvodina province. It is located 5 kilometers away from Batajnica and 20 km from the capital, Belgrade. ...

, in

Syrmia Syrmia (Ekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srem, Срем, separator=" / " or Ijekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srijem, Сријем, label=none, separator=" / ") is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is div ...

in the province of

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are located right across the Danube, while Belgrade's suburban settlements of Vrbovski,

Padinska Skela Padinska Skela ( sr-Cyrl, Падинска Скела), or colloquially Padinjak (), is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Location Padinska Skela is located in the ...

and Kovilovo are located north, east and south-east, respectively. A small settlement of the same name is located on bog's northern tip. It is part of the

Beljarica Beljarica () is a wetland in the Danube valley in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Since 2013, it is in the process of becoming protected area. Due to the abundant wildlife and undisturbed nature, though being close to downtown Belgrade, it has b ...

wetland.

Settlement

Settlement of Široka Bara is actually a sub-settlement of Vrbovski (and, as such, of

) located in the northern,

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section of the municipality of Palilula (Pančevački Rit), 22 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade. The settlement is located 5 kilometers west of Padinska Skela and the ''Zrenjaninski put'' road which connects Belgrade with the town of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inh ...

, in Vojvodina. First settlement developed around ''salaš'', an outer farm field, after

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. After

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, it became a location of one of the many outer farms of the

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, Belgrade' major agricultural company. As farms were becoming more modern and communal infrastructure of the settlement was neglected for decades, population moved out leaving only a dozen of inhabited houses in the early 2000s.Glas Javnosti
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References

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