Lipolist () is a village in
Serbia
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. It is situated in the
Šabac
Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city p ...
municipality, in the
Mačva District
The Mačva District ( sr, / , ) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It expands in the western parts of Serbia, in the geographical regions of Mačva, Podrinje, Posavina, and Pocerina. According to the 2011 ...
. The village has a
Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,582 people (2002 census).
Geography
Lipolist is situated on the border between the lowland
Mačva region and the hilly slopes of the
Cer mountain. The name of the village means "
linden tree leaf".
In the early 2020's, it was estimated there are over 1,000 linden trees in the village or its surroundings.
Characteristics
The village has a church dedicated to the
Dormition of the Mother of God. Built in 1872, the church was declared a cultural monument and is protected by the state.
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Lipolist has an elementary school "Stepa Stepanović", named after the ]field marshal
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Stepa Stepanović, one of the commanders in the World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
Battle of Cer. The battle occurred close to the village in August 1914, and Stepanović set his headquarters in Lipolist.[
]
Economy
Since 1985, an annual festival ''Ruže Lipolista'' ("Roses of Lipolist") has been held. The flower festival dedicated to roses also includes poetry evenings and other cultural events. Lipolist is known in Europe for the production of the rose seedlings. Around 1,000,000 seedlings are produced yearly in village's nursery gardens, of which 800,000 are exported mainly to Russia, Poland and Germany.[ Lipolist is the largest rose seedling producer in Serbia.][
The commercial seedling production began in 1931. As of 2019, a dozen of families had nurseries which employed 1,000 workers. The largest plantations have up to 6,500 plants. The best known variety was the "Maršalka" ("Marshall rose"), grown in France, and named after Yugoslav president Marshal ]Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
. The flower was white with red edges, and was the bestselling rose variety in Serbia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 2010s, the most grown cultivars were the purple ones. The breeders have been trying for decades to breed black roses, but the dark red color was the closest they achieved.[
]
See also
* List of places in Serbia
* Mačva
References
Šabac
Populated places in Mačva District
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