Petrovčić ( sr-cyr, Петровчић) is a

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of

Surčin Surčin ( sr-Cyrl, Сурчин, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is located in the eastern Syrmia region in Central Europe, 32km west of downtown Belgrade. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 45,452 inhabitants. It is the ...

Location

Petrovčić is the westernmost settlement in the municipality, located right next to the administrative border which divides

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and the province of

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. It is located in the

Syrmia Syrmia (Ekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srem, Срем, separator=" / " or Ijekavian sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srijem, Сријем, label=none, separator=" / ") is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is div ...

region (north of the ''Bojčinska'' woods), west of the village of Bečmen, almost 30 kilometers west of downtown Belgrade and 12 kilometers west of its municipal seat, Surčin. The road which connects Petrovčić to Surčin (through Bečmen) on the east, continues into the Vojvodina on the west, to the village of Karlovčić. A crossroad of this road and the one opposite to it (north to south, Deč- Ašanja) is just west of Petrovčić.

Demographics

Like majority of the settlements in the municipality, Petrovčić experienced steady population growth for decades, especially from the 1990s, almost 26% between the censuses of 1991 (1,117 inhabitants) and 2002 (1,406), but it depopulated by the 2011 census to 1,394. Major ethnic groups are the

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(1,261 or 89,69%),

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(73 or 5,19%),

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and Gorani (17 each or 1,21%). people

Characteristics

The settlement is statistically classified as a rural one (village). It has a junior grades elementary school and a poetry festival “Stihovi pod vedrim nebom” (Verses under the open skies).

Economy

Urban agriculture is today predominant, including breeding of the

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pigs. Previously, the village was known for the cultivation of the

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trees.

References

Suburbs of Belgrade Populated places in Syrmia Surčin {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub