Železnička Kolonija ( sr-cyr, Железничка Колонија) is an
urban neighborhood of
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 a ...
, the capital of
Serbia
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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...
.
Location
Železnička Kolonija is located in the southwestern section of the urban Zemun, on the Belgrade-
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
railroad. It borders the neighborhood of
Novi Grad on the north and
Kolonija Zmaj on the south while in the east it extends into the neighborhood of
Kalvarija.
Characteristics
The neighborhood was built in 1929 near the Zemun-Novi Grad railway station, thus the name Železnička Kolonija (railway settlement). The original core of the neighborhood consists of 28 residential houses which were initially considered to be temporary so the basic infrastructure (sewage, etc.) was not conducted but the idea was later dropped so the neighborhood survived.
The later addition to the neighborhood (with unsuccessfully attempted name of
Franjine Rudine) in the north and northeast which makes the urban connection to the rest of Zemun is sometimes also considered both part of Novi Grad or Železnička Kolonija. The local community (''mesna zajednica'', municipal sub-administrative division) which covers this area had a population of 5,557 by the 2002 census of population. A small park within the neighborhood was built in 2007.
Neighborhoods of Belgrade
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