Staro Groblje (

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: Cтapo Гpoбљe) is a neighborhood of the city of

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. It is located within the municipality of Palilula. The correct "borders" of the neighborhood are not known but many people consider it to be from ''Zmaja of noćaja/Змаја од ноћаја'' street up to the old cemetery which the neighborhood got the name from. Since the neighborhood does not have any municipal status the population is unknown, but as a person who lives there I would say that there are ~3,000-4,000 people.

Location

Staro Groblje is located in the Southwest part of Niš. It is bordered on the west by the neighborhood of

Bubanj Bubanj ( sr-Cyrl, Бубањ; or as it is often called ''Bubanj Selo'' (), because the city district of the city of Niš called ''Bubanj'') is a village in the municipality of Palilula, City of Niš, Serbia. According to the 2002 census its popul ...

, on the south by the neighborhood of Tutunović Podrum, on the east by the neighborhood of Palilula and on the north by the railroad connecting

with

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History

Staro Groblje was built mostly after 1878. It is named for an old 14 hectare cemetery located there.

Characteristics

The neighborhood is mostly residential. The terrain is partly flat and partly on a hill.

Development

The

University of Niš The University of Niš ( sr, Универзитет у Нишу, Univerzitet u Nišu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1965 and consists of 13 faculties with 1,492 academic staff and around 20,500 students (as of 2018–19 sch ...

Faculty of Occupational Safety is located in the neighborhood.

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follows the city boulevard parallel to railroad. Neighborhoods of Niš {{NišavaRS-geo-stub