Rupčine (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Рупчине) is an
urban neighborhood of
Belgrade
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, the capital of
Serbia
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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of
Čukarica
Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
Name
Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after a kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refin ...
.
Location
Rupčine is actually the southwesternmost part of the
Žarkovo
Žarkovo ( sr-Cyrl, Жарково, ) is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica.
Location and divisions
Žarkovo (Greater Žarkovo) is one of the most po ...
neighborhood, bordered by
Bele Vode to the north,
Cerak Vinogradi (that is, ''Ibarska Magistrala'' road) to the east, and the ''Vodovodska Street'' and
Makiš
Makiš () is a forest and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica.
Location
Makiš is bordered by the Sava river and Sava Lake to the west and north, Čukarica and Čuka ...
to the west. On the south, Rupčine borders with the open fields of ''Stari Lanci'' and ''Novi Lanci'', which stretch all the way to
Železnik
Železnik ( sr-cyr, Железник, ) is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica.
Location
Železnik is located in the central part of the Čukarica mun ...
.
Characteristics
Quite contrary to its eastern bordering neighborhood,
Cerak Vinogradi, Rupčine is not built according to urban plans and is highly unattractive in either urban, visual or sense of communal order. Atop of all that, it has quite unattractive name too (rupčine, Serbian for ''big holes'').
Neighborhood had an estimated 7,000 inhabitants in March 2022.
Sub-neighborhoods
Makiške Terase
By the 2020s, some parts of the neighborhood acquired more favorable names. Northern half, directly descending from Bele Vode, was named Makiške Terase ("Makiš Terraces"). It starts at the Momčila Čedića Street, where the sign with the new name of the neighborhood was placed. Border with the southern half of Rupčine is the Časlava Veljića Street, where a new, local post office "Makiške Terase" was opened in March 2022.
[
Sometimes, the name is used for the entire Rupčine neighborhood.]Patriarch
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of the Serbian Orthodox Church
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, Irinej. The lot was donated by the local resident Mrs. Borika Nikolić. Church was designed by architect Ljubica Bošnjak, and was to be completed by the end of 2023.[
]
References
Neighborhoods of Belgrade
Čukarica
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