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Elementary school "Stari Grad"; founded in 1961 and originally named "1st Proletarian Brigade", with 1,300 pupils it was the largest school in this part of Belgrade. It was among the first schools in Belgrade which got a large library, day care, electronic classrooms, etc. As the population of Stari Grad dwindled, so did the number of pupils.
Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː ɡrâd], "Old Town") is a fortress near the city of Užice, in central Serbia. Today in ruins, it is an example of typical medieval Serbian architecture. Historians believe it was built in the second half of the 14th century to control movement along nearby roads, and the ...
The settlement from which Stari grad (and Novi Sad) developed was founded in 1694. This settlement was known as Racka varoš or Petrovaradinski Šanac and was part of the Danube military frontier. The original area of Petrovaradin Šanac was in the northwest part of today's Stari grad and the southwest part of today's Podbara.
Stari Grad is the place with the majority of churches and temples, and they were all built in the 18th and 19th century. The oldest religious building in the city was Orthodox church dedicated to Saint John. This church was built in 1700, but was burned in the 1848–49 revolution. It was rebuilt in 1853, but was razed in 1921.
Belgrade Fortress is located on top of the 125.5 metres (412 ft) high [9] ending ridge of the Šumadija geological bar. The sandbank stretches at least from the city's Tašmajdan section, originating from the Miocene period, and the oldest stages of the ancient Pannonian Sea. [10]
Located in the municipality of Stari Grad, Nikola Pašić Square lies in downtown Belgrade as the direct extension of Terazije.Named after Nikola Pašić, Serbia's famous early 20th-century politician and prime minister, it overlooks the monumental building of the House of the National Assembly and itself extends into urban Belgrade's longest street, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra, while Dečanska ...
The existing name at the time was not representable, so the residence proposed the new names of Bačvar (Serbian: Bački Grad), Dunavar (Serbian: Dunavgrad), Vizkoz (Serbian: Međurečje) or Vaserbrug (Serbian: Vodengrad) in German. The Royal Chancellery in Buda offered the names of Dunavar, Vizkoz and Ujvidek for the empress to pick from.
Skadarlija became a separate municipality of Belgrade in 1952, after the previous post-World War II division of Belgrade into raions from 1945 to 1952 ended.That municipality included a large portion of urban Belgrade, mainly the Danube oriented neighborhoods [7] like Dorćol, Jalija, Stari Grad, etc.