Busije ( Serbian

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: Бусије) is a suburban neighborhood of

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, the capital of

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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

Busije is a sub-neighborhood of

Ugrinovci Ugrinovci ( Serbian Cyrillic , bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця , fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs , fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic , fam3 = ...

, the only separate settlement in the municipality (urban section of Zemun is administratively part of the Belgrade proper). It is located halfway between Ugrinovci and

Batajnica Batajnica ( sr-Cyrl, Батајница, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun. Location and geography Batajnica is located in the Syrmia region, in the northern ...

, westernmost section of the Belgrade proper.

History

Just like the other similar settlement,

Grmovac Grmovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Грмовац) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Grmovac is a sub-neighborhood of Ugrinovci, which is 3 km away and to whic ...

, origins of Busije (Serbian for 'ambush') date from 1997 when the Zemun's municipal leadership decided to sell empty lots to the refugees from

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who were forced out after the

Operation Storm }) was the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and a major factor in the outcome of the Bosnian War. It was a decisive victory for the Croatian Army (HV), which attacked across a front against the self-declared proto-state R ...

in 1995. Prices were relatively low and many people bought the land, regardless of the fact that area has not been designated for urban development and the lack of any infrastructure.

Area and population

Originally. Busije covered an area of 42

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s, divided into 1.300 lots for individual houses. By 2017 number of houses reached 2,000 and population has been estimated between 5,000 and 7,000, out of which 80-90 % make refugees from Croatia and

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Development

Settlement remained cut off from the rest of the city for the first ten years as the

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drafted its first urban development plan for Busije in 2007. Proper road were built in 2006, followed soon by the ambulance,

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

Saints Cyril and Methodius Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries. For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs". They are credited wit ...

and urban transportation line 702. Water, electricity and street lights were also introduced but Busije still has no school or kindergarten. Not having many other economic options, small craft shops developed: bakeries, grocery stores, car repair shops, locksmith and carpenter shops, etc. First elementary school, a dependency of the "Branko Radičević" elementary school from Batajnica, was opened in 2020.

References

Suburbs of Belgrade {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub

Location

History

Area and population

Development

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