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Belgrade (/ bɛlˈɡreɪd / bel-GRAYD, / ˈbɛlɡreɪd / BEL-grayd; [ a ] Serbian: Београд / Beograd, lit. 'White City', Serbian: [beǒɡrad] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. [ 10 ]
Subdivisions of Belgrade. Serbia 's capital city of Belgrade is divided into 17 municipalities. [1] Most of the municipalities are situated on the southern side of the Danube and Sava rivers, in the Šumadija region. Three municipalities (Zemun, Novi Beograd, and Surčin) are on the northern bank of the Sava, in the Syrmia region, and the ...
The Belgrade Fortress [2] [3] (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдска тврђава, romanized: Beogradska tvrđava, Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár), consists of the old citadel (Upper and Lower Town) and Kalemegdan Park [4] (Large and Little Kalemegdan) on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, Serbia.
The history of Belgrade dates back to at least 5700 BC. One of the largest prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved from the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco - Dacians inhabited the region, and after 279 BC Celts conquered the city, naming it Singidūn. [1] It was conquered by the Romans during the ...
Republic Square, Skadarlija, Stari Grad. Vintage street and a pedestrian, bohemian quarter, Belgrade's version of Parisian Montmartre. After the Belgrade Fortress, the street paved with kaldrma and known for numerous old kafanas is the second most visited tourist attraction in Belgrade. [ 14 ]
Topographic map of Serbia [e] Wild horses at the Stara Planina, eastern Serbia. A landlocked country situated at the crossroads between Central [167] [168] and Southeastern Europe, Serbia is located in the Balkan peninsula and the Pannonian Plain. Serbia lies between latitudes 41° and 47° N, and longitudes 18° and 23° E.
The Western City Gate (Serbian: Западна капија Београда, romanized: Zapadna kapija Beograda), also known as the Genex Tower (Serbian: Кула Генекс, romanized: Kula Geneks) is a 36-story skyscraper in Belgrade, Serbia, which was designed in 1977 by Mihajlo Mitrović in the brutalist style. [1] It is formed by two ...
The square is located less than 100 meters away from Terazije, designated center of Belgrade, to which it is connected by the streets of Kolarčeva (traffic) and Knez Mihailova (pedestrian zone). Many people erroneously consider Square of the Republic to be the center of the city. Through Vasina street it is connected to the fortress and park ...