Mrštane ( sr-cyr, Мрштане) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

located in the

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Leskovac Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, City of Leskovac has a 124,889 inhabitants. Etymology Leskovac was historicall ...

, southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,332 inhabitants.Dimitrije Živković is born in Mrštane

Trivia

On the eastern outskirts of village, which is separated by

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with the rest of the village, there is an unfinished bridge over

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. Even though the bridge was constructed in 1998, it got a nationwide attention during the 2010s as it doesn't have access roads for over a decade. According to the reports it remains unfinished as it is not known whose jurisdiction it is to finish the bridge, of national road construction company

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or of Leskovac local authorities. The inhabitants of Mrštane and two neighboring villages ( Manojlovce and Donje Krajince) are using wooden ladders on each end of the bridge to access it as pedestrians.

References

Populated places in Jablanica District {{JablanicaRS-geo-stub