Sutjeska ( sr-cyr, Сутјеска) is an urban neighborhood of

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

, the capital of

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of

Zemun Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...

Location

Sutjeska is located west of the old core of Zemun. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of

Sava Kovačević Sava Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Сава Ковачевић; 25 January 1905 – 13 June 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement. Early life Kovačević was ...

on the west (bounded by the ''Šilerova'' street), Gornji Grad on the north (''Ugrinovačka'' street), Novi Grad's sub-neighborhood of

Vojni Put I Novi Grad ( sr, Нови Град) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Novi Grad is located in the central-west section of the urban Zemun. It stretches along ...

on the south-west (''Pazovački put''), while ''Prvomajska'' street marks the southern border of the neighborhood.

Characteristics

The neighborhood is predominantly residential, with 7,446 inhabitants by the 2002 census of population. It has its own ambulance and elementary school. It was named after the Battle of Sutjeska which took place in 1943 between Partisans and the

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, where Partisan leader Sava Kovačević was killed. Back-to-back neighborhoods of Blok Sutjeska and Blok Sava Kovačević also exist in another Belgrade's neighborhood,

Krnjača Krnjača ( sr-cyr, Крњача, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. Location and population Krnjača is located on the left bank of the Danube, across the Belgr ...

, in the municipality of Palilula.

Neighborhoods

Bački Ilovik

North-west extension. It is a triangularly shaped and bounded by the streets of ''

Bačka Bačka ( sr-cyrl, Бачка, ) or Bácska () is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east. It is divided between Serbia and Hungary ...

'' on the east, ''Ugrinovačka'' on the north and ''Pazovački put'' on the south, it is mostly inhabited by the

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. Several companies for collecting old materials (iron, aluminium, paper, etc.) are located in the neighborhood.

Meandri

North-east, residential extension, bounded by the streets of ''Zagorska'' on the south, ''Rade Končara'' on the east and ''Ugrinovačka'' on the north. The name means

meanders A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank w ...

Zemun Bačka

Zemun Bačka is the northernmost extension of the neighborhood and unlike the rest of Sutjeska, mostly industrial area. In the north it extends in the direction of

Nova Galenika Galenika ( sr-cyr, Галеника) or Nova Galenika ( sr-cyr, Нова Галеника) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Nova Galenika is located on the ...

while the neighborhood of Altina begins just west, across the Belgrade-

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

highway. A roundabout of the bus lines 18 and 83, which connect Zemun with downtown Belgrade is located in the neighborhood.

References

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