Veslački Klub Partizan
Veslački Klub Partizan ( sr, Веслачки Клуб Партизан) is a Serbian rowing club from Belgrade. The club is part of the sports society JSD Partizan, and is also a member of the Serbian Rowing Federation. The club's main headquarters are on the small island Ada Ciganlija. History The club was founded on July 5, 1951, by a group of young army officers and former rowers. The club was based on Ada Ciganlija, where it is to this day. The club's facilities were built by German prisoners of war. The facility, built from concrete, is often threatened by flooding, the worst case being in 1981 when the level of water inside reached . In 1986, at the suggestion of club president Danka Đunića, the administration of the club was professionalized, and former Serbian national team rowers and VKP members Nebojša Ilić and Dušan Kovačević were hired as coaches, and Mile Jokić as secretary. This represented a turning point in the history of the club. In the same year, a ...
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Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ...
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