Kovilovo ( sr-cyr, Ковилово; ) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Location

Kovilovo is located in the northern,

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section of the municipality, 15 kilometer north of downtown Belgrade, on the crossroad of several streams and canals, most notably, the Vizelj. The settlement is located few kilometers to west of the ''Zrenjaninski put'' road which connects Belgrade with the town of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...

, also in Vojvodina. It is just south of

Padinska Skela Padinska Skela ( sr-Cyrl, Падинска Скела), or colloquially Padinjak (), is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Location Padinska Skela is located in th ...

History and population

The settlement originates from the 19th century farm ( salaš) of Kovilovo, inhabited by the Hungarian workers who built the embankment on the

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's left bank. It was named after the soldier of the

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, Mikhail Kovilov, who was killed here during the Belgrade Offensive in 1944. Population is slowly declining: 1,063 inhabitants according to 1991

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, 1,039 by the 2002 census, out of which 92,5% are

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, and 920 in 2011.

Characteristics

In 2005 a modern ''BG Sport and Olympic Centre Kovilovo''Official site
/ref> was open, including seven shooting ranges within the ''BG Shooting Range'' and hosted to 2005 ISSF European Championship.

References

Suburbs of Belgrade Populated places in Serbian Banat Palilula, Belgrade {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub