Mala Ciganlija ( sr-cyr, Мала Циганлија) is an
urban neighborhood of Belgrade (the capital of Serbia), located the municipality of
Novi Beograd
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 ...
.
Mala Ciganlija is a peninsula on the left bank of the
Sava
The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally th ...
river, just over 1 km long and 200 m wide. It encloses the small bay, called ''Zimovnik'' (''winter shelter''), where the facilities of the
shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance a ...
''Belgrade'' are located. Technically, it is an extension of the Novi Beograd's Block 69.
Once almost uninhabited and completely forested, in the last 20 years its western half in entirely urbanized and industrialized, in connection to the expansion of the shipyard and the growing number of gravel selling and separating facilities on the Sava's bank. Eastern half of the peninsula is still mostly intact and the bridge of ''Novi železnički most'' (''New railway bridge'') passes above its easternmost tip.
The name of the peninsula means ''little (Ada) Ciganlija'', compared to the much larger island of
Ada Ciganlija
Ada Ciganlija ( sr-cyr, Ада Циганлија, ), colloquially shortened to Ada, is a river island that has artificially been turned into a peninsula, located in the Sava River's course through central Belgrade, Serbia. The name can also ref ...
to the southeast.
References
* ''Beograd - plan grada''; M@gic M@p, 2006;
Neighborhoods of Belgrade
New Belgrade
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