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The municipality of Grocka covers an area of 289 km 2 and includes 15 settlements, all of which are statistically classified as rural, except for the municipal seat of Grocka, which is urban. The small town of Grocka is located on the right bank of the Danube, where the small river Gročica empties into the Danube, 30 km east of Belgrade.
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Today, from the Pančevački most to the easternmost tip, Ada Huja is almost 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) long and the entire area (filled and former island) covers 5 square kilometres (1.9 square miles). [1] [2] [4] [5] At the bottom of the Danube next to Ada Huja is the ruin of a plane of the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank (Hungarian: Cipők a Duna-parton) is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [] to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.
The Rančić Family House (Serbian: Ранчићева кућа) is located in Grocka, at 9 Majevička Street, in the immediate vicinity of the Čaršija (historical main street), on an elevated, spacious plot, set free in relation with the street regulation.
The border between Croatia and Serbia in the area of the Danube is disputed, an important part of their broader diplomatic relations.While Serbia claims that the thalweg of the Danube valley and the centreline of the river represents the international border between the two countries, Croatia disagrees, claiming that the international border lies along the boundaries of the cadastral ...
In the southern section, the channels were 60 m (197 ft) wide and 3 m (10 ft) deep, except for the Sip Channel, which was 73 m (240 ft) wide. [7] In 1890, near Orșova, the last border town of Hungary, rocks were cleared by explosion over a 2 km (1.2 mi) stretch in order to create channels.
The Battle of Grocka, also known as Battle of Krotzka, [6] (Turkish: Hisarcık Savaşı) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739). It was fought between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire on 21–22 July 1739 in Grocka , near Belgrade in the Habsburg-held Kingdom of Serbia .