This article describes 23 gates of
Belgrade
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Roman gates
Remains of southeastern gate of the
Singidunum's
castrum were found when adapting the building of the
Belgrade Library, with one of its towers now being in the library depot and the other across the street in the small park with
Milan Rakić's bust. The gate was located exactly at the end of
Knez Mihailova and entrance of
Kalemegdan
The Kalemegdan Park (), or simply Kalemegdan ( sr-Cyrl, Калемегдан) is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube.
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park, at . Thus this entrance stayed at the same place for nearly 2,000 years.
Northwest
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ern gate of the castrum was located roughly at the same place as today's
Defterdar's Gate.
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Fortress gates
Upper city gates
These are gates in the walls of the Upper City of the Belgrade Fortress. Gates that are connected to each other are not exactly aligned. This was done to prevent use of siege engines on the inner gate, if the outer gate would be breached.
Lower city gates
Outer city gates
When Austrians occupied northern Serbia, including Belgrade, in the early 18the century, apart from rebuilding and renovating the Fortress, they dug a moat outside of the Fortress, as the first line of defense. It became known as the "Laudan trench" (Serbian ''Laudanov šanac'' or simply ''Šanac''). It was up to 6 meters wide, 2 meters deep and on the outer side had reinforcements in the form of earth embankments or walls. In order to get to and out of the city, a system of many gates and bridges was built through and on the trench. They all had a permanent military crew and were always locked at night.Commemorative plaque
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s mark their former locations now.
Modern gates
References
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Lists of buildings and structures in Belgrade
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