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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 ...
In 1974, the Yugoslavian film Ужичка република in Serbian or in English as the Guns of War was released documenting the first offensive in the Great Patriotic War against fascism and follows the Spanish soldier and fervent communist Boro as he organizes a partisan uprising in western Serbia that later establishes itself into the ...
Monument to fallen partisans in battle on Kadinjača Hill. The Republic of Užice (Serbo-Croatian: Užička republika / Ужичка република) was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1941 in occupied Yugoslavia, more specifically the western part of the ...
Stari Grad is a town on the northern side of the island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Croatia. [3] One of the oldest towns in Europe, its position at the end of a long, protected bay and next to prime agricultural land has long made it attractive for human settlement. Stari Grad is also a municipality within the Split-Dalmatia County.
In February 2012, on a non-binding referendum, the citizens of Sevojno voted for the creation of a separate city municipality within the City of Užice. However, residents of the nearby villages of Zlakusa, Gorjani and Krvavci did not support the initiative. [3] Assembly of the City eventually supported formation of the municipality.
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Guns of War (Serbo-Croatian: Užička republika/ Ужичка република, lit. 'Republic of Užice') is a 1974 Yugoslav film directed by Žika Mitrović.It is one of the most notable examples of partisan film, a Yugoslav subgenre of World War II films which was popular between the 1960s and 1980s.
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.