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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]
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 ...
Belgrade Centre station was opened on 26 January 2016, [4] serving two daily trains to Novi Sad, as well as Belgrade commuter railways. [5] Following gradual re-routing, it gained its current role on 1 July 2018. It is connected to the city centre by bus route 36 (GSP Belgrade) to Savski Trg and Slavija, operating every 40 minutes.
At the time it was considered Belgrade's most modern hotel. Between 1945 and 1970 the National Library of Serbia was located in this building. Today, the building houses the City of Belgrade library. Marko Stojanović's house, 53-55 Knez Mihailova Street, was built in 1889 as a private home of lawyer Marko Stojanović, in the renaissance style ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jurija Gagarina. 44°48′13″N20°25′33″E / 44.803720°N 20.425829°E / 44.803720; 20.425829. Savski Nasip, Belville, Delta City, Blokovi, Dr Ivan Ribar. One of the most important traffic streets in New Belgrade, stretching connecting the central and western parts of the municipality. Named after Yuri Gagarin (1934–68).
Urban. Belgrade has an extensive public transport system, which consists of buses, trams, trolley buses and trains operated by the city-owned GSP Belgrade [ 1 ] and several private companies. All companies participate in Integrated Tariff System (ITS), which makes tickets transferable between companies and vehicle types.