Grdelica () is a town in southern

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. It is situated in the

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municipality, in the

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. The total population of the town was 3,194 people as of the 2011 census. For census purposes, Grdelica is divided into two adjacent parts, southern "Grdelica town" (''Grdelica varoš''; population 2,136) and northern "Grdelica village" (''Grdelica selo''; 1,058). Grdelica lies at the

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river, on the mountainous terrain at the entrance of the Grdelica Gorge. It lies at an important transport route, on the main road and railway corridor linking Serbia with Macedonia and Greece. , the section around Grdelica is the last part of the

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to be completed to a full dual carriageway profile. It is the largest settlement on the route from

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, and it was a seat of a municipality until absorbed by the Leskovac municipality in the 1960s. Grdelica has a football stadium (the name of the football team is "FK Jedinstvo"), a basketball court and a swimming pool. "

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" is the name of the primary school. Woodworks "Danilo Bošković" and "Textile Industry Grdelica (TIG)" are two major factories.

History

It was part of an Iron Age culture, with 8th-century-BC pottery found in the downstream river.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0241/2007/0350-02410757175S.pdf

References

* Populated places in Jablanica District Leskovac {{JablanicaRS-geo-stub

History

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