Ledine ( sr, Ледине) is an urban neighborhood of

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, the capital of

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. It is located in the municipality of

New Belgrade New Belgrade ( sr, / , ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is a planned city, built since 1948 in a previously uninhabited area on the left bank of the Sava river, opposite old Belgrade. In recent years, it has become the central bu ...

Location

Ledine is the westernmost settlement in the municipality, formerly developed as a sort of an

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outside the projected area of the city of New Belgrade. Today it is urbanistically connected to the neighborhoods of

Bežanija Bežanija ( sr-cyr, Бежанија, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd, in the Syrmia region. Location Bežanija is located west of the downtown Belgrade, across the Sav ...

and

Dr Ivan Ribar Dr Ivan Ribar ( sr-cyr, Др Иван Рибар) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of New Belgrade. Location Dr Ivan Ribar is the westernmost neighborhood in the western out ...

by the narrow urban strip along ''Vionogradska'' and ''Surčinska'' streets. The settlement itself is built between these two streets, both of which connect Belgrade and

Surčin Surčin ( sr-Cyrl, Сурчин, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 43,819 inhabitants. It is the newest municipality of Belgrade, having split from the municipality of Zemun in 2003. Its most ...

and along which a continuous built-up area of Belgrade-Ledine-Surčin is being formed.

History

The settlement began to develop in 1961. It was formed as a result of the resettlement of inhabitants from

Jatagan Mala Jatagan Mala ( sr, Јатаган мала) is the former urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It existed from 1919 to 1961 and was located in the modern municipality of Savski Venac. Forgotten and unknown to the younger gene ...

, a shanty town in old part of Belgrade, across the

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river. Jatagan Mala was demolished in the process of city beautification due to the First Summit of the Non-Aligned countries.

Characteristics

Ledine experiences all the problems of the non-planned neighborhoods of Belgrade, mostly concerning communal problems. The population of the settlement was 6,813 in 2011. As the settlement originated on barren meadows outside any urban area, it got the descriptive name ''ledine'', Serbian for ''the

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s''.

Trostruki Surduk

Ledine is also site of the Jewish memorial cemetery, commemorating killing of 240–450

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and

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by the German occupational forces from October 1941 to February 1942 in the nearby small valley called

Trostruki surduk Trostruki surduk is the name of a place in Belgrade, Serbia, between Bežanija and Surčin, where the mass murder of 240–450 Jews during World War II was organized. The exact number of murdered people, date of execution and the concentrati ...

. The memorial was built on 20 October 1964 and in 1992, it was declared a

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. The memorial was restored in 2008.

References

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