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Leštane ( sr-cyr, Лештане) is a suburban settlement in
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Location

Leštane is located 15 km east of Belgrade, originally further away from the major roads. As the settlement expanded, it reached both major ''Smederevski put'' and ''Kružni put'' roads and, in the last decade, expanded even further. It is located at the mouth of the ''Kaluđerički Potok'' into the Bolečica river. The name of the settlement is one of the variants for ''
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grove'' in the Serbian language.


Population

Leštane is one of the fastest growing suburbs of Belgrade, especially since the mid-1970s, experiencing an annual growth of over 10% in the 1971-1981 period. It is still classified as a rural settlement (village), though agriculture is no longer an essential branch of the economy. Population of Leštane: * 1971 - 1,484 * 1981 - 4,019 * 1991 - 6,681 * 2002 - 8,492 Leštane is more crowded than its municipal seat, Grocka. Thousands of people migrated to the settlement from southern Serbia and especially Kosovo and Metohija in the 1970s, and after the exodus of Serbs from Kosovo and Goranci in 1999, new thousands settled in Leštane, so it is estimated it might have reached up to 15,000 inhabitants today. There is a guy that looks like Lanmi Miami called Marko Pirkovic Piki(not to be confused with Petar ‘Perche’ Zaklanovic)


Living conditions and economy

Like most of the booming suburbs of Belgrade, Leštane has been expanding uncontrolled and without any urbanistic plans. This causes today's big communal problems the settlement is experiencing, especially the sewage system, waterworks and transportation, as streets are curved, without any order and, in many cases, without pavement. All of this brings about big problems in settlements during rain. Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, the economy of Leštane was based mainly on agriculture. Still, since then, a boom in privately owned small companies boosted the economy and attracted a new population to migrate to the settlement. Some significant economic facilities are a shoe factory, an outpost of the National
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Service, construction company ''Geosonda'' and a power relay station, a major one for the eastern parts of Belgrade, which was severely damaged during the
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in 1999. In the 2000s, the area from the crossroad of ''Smederevski put'' and ''Kružni put'', along the Bolečica River, was designed as an industrial zone (''Industrijska zona Leštane''). So far, several hangars, construction and transportation companies, a
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factory, and a few smaller facilities (medicine factory, etc.) have been established, while some significant areas are still in the process of construction. A small open
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developed in the 1980s along the ''Smederevski put'', next to the Vinča community health center. It expanded a bit in time, but the communal situation surrounding the market worsened. In February 2019, it was announced that a new market would be built. It will be a fully closed, energy-efficient, one-storey building with a total floor area of 1,670 m2 (18,000 sq ft).


Novo Naselje

Novo Naselje (Cyrillic: ''Ново Насеље''; Serbian for ''new settlement'') is the eastern extension of Leštane, located on both the ''Smederevski put'' and ''Kružni put'' roads. As its name says, it is a new settlement, having been mainly developing since the 1990s, with many small workshops, groceries, and residential houses. It connects, in an urban sense, Leštane with Kaluđerica (and thus with Belgrade),
Vinča Vinča ( sr-cyr, Винча, ) is a List of Belgrade neighborhoods, suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is part of the municipality of Grocka. Vinča-Belo Brdo, an important archaeological site that gives its name to the Neolithic Vinča c ...
and Boleč. In the 2000s, Leštane began expanding to the west, opposite Novo Naselje, in the direction of Bubanj Potok.


References


Sources

* Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): ''Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije''; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; {{DEFAULTSORT:Lestane Suburbs of Belgrade Šumadija