Sutjeska ( sr-cyr, Сутјеска) is an urban neighborhood of

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, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Location

Sutjeska is located west of the old core of Zemun. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of

Sava Kovačević Sava Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Сава Ковачевић; 25 January 1905 – 13 June 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement. Early life Kovačević was ...

on the west (bounded by the ''Šilerova'' street),

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on the north (''Ugrinovačka'' street), Novi Grad's sub-neighborhood of

Vojni Put I Novi Grad ( sr, Нови Град) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Novi Grad is located in the central-west section of the urban Zemun. It stretches along ...

on the south-west (''Pazovački put''), while ''Prvomajska'' street marks the southern border of the neighborhood.

Characteristics

The neighborhood is predominantly residential, with 7,446 inhabitants by the 2002 census of population. It has its own ambulance and elementary school. It was named after the

Battle of Sutjeska Case Black (german: Fall Schwarz), also known as the Fifth Enemy Offensive ( sh-Latn, Peta neprijateljska ofanziva) in Yugoslav historiography and often identified with its final phase, the Battle of the Sutjeska ( sh-Latn, Bitka na Sutjesci ) ...

which took place in 1943 between Partisans and the Axis forces, where Partisan leader Sava Kovačević was killed. Back-to-back neighborhoods of

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and

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also exist in another Belgrade's neighborhood, Krnjača, in the municipality of Palilula.

Neighborhoods

Bački Ilovik

North-west extension. It is a triangularly shaped and bounded by the streets of '' Bačka'' on the east, ''Ugrinovačka'' on the north and ''Pazovački put'' on the south, it is mostly inhabited by the Romani people. Several companies for collecting old materials (iron, aluminium, paper, etc.) are located in the neighborhood.

Meandri

North-east, residential extension, bounded by the streets of ''Zagorska'' on the south, ''Rade Končara'' on the east and ''Ugrinovačka'' on the north. The name means meanders.

Zemun Bačka

Zemun Bačka is the northernmost extension of the neighborhood and unlike the rest of Sutjeska, mostly industrial area. In the north it extends in the direction of Nova Galenika while the neighborhood of Altina begins just west, across the Belgrade- Novi Sad highway. A roundabout of the bus lines 18 and 83, which connect Zemun with downtown Belgrade is located in the neighborhood.

References

External links

{{BelgradeRS-geo-stub Neighborhoods of Belgrade