Cvetkova Pijaca or colloquially Cvetko (

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: Цветкова пијаца) is an open green market and an urban neighborhood of

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, the capital of

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zvezdara.

Location

Cvetko is located along the

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, in the field south of Zvezdara hill, in the easternmost section of the former

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area (modern local community which covers the area of Cvetko is called ''Vračarsko polje'', Vračar field). It is 3,5 kilometers south-east of downtown Belgrade ( Terazije). It is centered on the green market and extends into the neighborhood of Konjarnik on the south and

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on the west.

History & characteristics

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, when Belgrade was a fortified city of Singidunum, the area of the modern neighborhood was location of three

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. In 1902 Belgrade's entrepreneur Cvetko Jovanović (originally from the

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region) opened a '' kafana'' on the Smederevo road, across the Mokri Lug's farmers' market. He named it "Vračar Field", after the location. However, his venue became known as ''Cvetkova

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. In 2011 it had over 400

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s. A series of new or enlarged neighborhoods encircled eastern outskirts of Belgrade after World War I. The inspiration for the design of the neighborhoods came from the complex built in 1912 along the in

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. It consisted of 40 one-floor houses with gardens, indented from the main street. This style became very popular across the Europe. One of such suburbs, called Kotež of King Peter II (''Котеж краља Петра II''), was located southwest of the market, bounded by the streets Gospodara Vučića, Ulcinjska, Negotinska (modern Stanislava Sremčevića) and Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra. After

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, the section near ''Olimp'' was settled by the

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from the shores of the

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, which fled

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after the

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in 1917. In ''Budvanska'' street, they built

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, a

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n-type Buddhist temple in 1929, which was abandoned in 1944 and demolished in the mid 1960s. In the eastern extension of the market, a row of six skyscrapers was built in 1955. Designed by

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, the 12-story high buildings were the first highrise in Belgrade after

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. They were built by the new techniques, including the climbing formwork, and started the fashion of highrise throughout he city. Other important nearby features are the sports center "Zvezdara" (popularly called ''Olimp'',

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) and the theater "Zvezdara teatar". The population of the neighborhood was 4,843 by the 2002 census.

References

External links

Neighborhoods of Belgrade Zvezdara {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub