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The City of Belgrade coat of arms.. Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, is divided into seventeen municipalities, of which ten are urban and seven suburban.In this list, each neighbourhood or suburb is categorised by the municipality in which it is situated.
Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia from its creation to its dissolution. [note 1] In a fatally strategic position, the city has been battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times, being bombed five times and besieged many times. [14] Being Serbia's primate city, Belgrade has special administrative status within Serbia. [15]
[4] The village of Resnik was mentioned in Ottoman defter from 1528. [5] This census of Belgrade nahiyah described the location of Resnik as suitable for living thanks to the fertile land, meadows, forests, water springs and geographic position. [4] It had 17 houses in 1713 and 33 in 1718. The first school was opened in 1842. [5]
Ledine is the westernmost settlement in the municipality, formerly developed as a sort of an informal settlement outside the projected area of the city of New Belgrade. Today it is urbanistically connected to the neighborhoods of Bežanija and Dr Ivan Ribar by the narrow urban strip along Vionogradska and Surčinska streets.
The longest street in the densely urbanized area of the city is the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra with 7.5 km (4.7 mi). The longest overall is the Obrenovac Road, with 11 km (6.8 mi). [3] With only 12 m (39 ft), the Lovačka Street in the outer neighborhood of Žarkovo is officially the shortest street. [4]
[4] Žarkovo was still considered to be a wealthy village, known for its dairy. In 1936, Žarkovo produced 14,000 litres of milk daily for the Belgrade markets. [9] The surrounding area was known for fertile land and with the large market of the nearby Belgrade for the farmers' products, farmers and craftsmen families in Žarkovo turned affluent.
Originally intended as the western extension of Krnjača (and officially part of it until 1971 when Krnjača lost a status of the separate settlement and became part of the Belgrade City proper itself), it was constructed west of the Zrenjaninski put road which connects the cities of Belgrade and Zrenjanin, without urbanistic connection to any other neighborhoods.
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