The Pomoravlje District ( sr, / , ) is one of eight administrative districts of

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. It expands to the central parts of

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. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 214,536 inhabitants. The administrative center is the city of

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Municipalities

The Pomoravlje District contains 6 municipalities (singular: општина, ''opština'' - plural: oпштине, ''opštine''). The following table shows the names of each municipality in the

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and Cyrillic, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of 2011:

Demographics

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Pomoravlje District has 214,536 inhabitants. 45.35% of the population lives in the urban areas.

Ethnic groups

Society and culture

Culture

The nineteenth century architecture has been partly preserved in the town. Earlier times are witnessed by the remnants of the edifices such as The House of Hajduk Veljko from the seventeenth century. Particularly interesting is the Old Church of Archangel Michael, the endowment of

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, built in 1818. The Jošanica Monastery was built in the late seventeenth century at the time of Despot

Đurađ Branković Đurađ Branković (; sr-cyr, Ђурађ Бранковић; hu, Brankovics György; 1377 – 24 December 1456) was the Serbian Despot from 1427 to 1456. He was one of the last Serbian medieval rulers. He was a participant in the battle of Anka ...

's reign, and is regarded the finest medieval building of this region. In the vicinity of

Ćuprija Ćuprija (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћуприја, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 19,380, while the municipality has 30,645 inhabitants. History The Romans founded the ...

stands the

Ravanica Monastery The Ravanica Monastery ( sr, / ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Kučaj mountains near Senje, a village in Ćuprija municipality in Central Serbia. It was built in 1375–1377 as an endowment of prince Lazar of Serbia, who is buried ...

with the Church of Assumption, the endowment of Prince Lazar, built between 1375 and 1377. After the death of Prince

Lazar Hrebeljanović Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-cyr, Лазар Хребељановић; ca. 1329 – 15 June 1389) was a medieval Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empire. Lazar's state, ...

in the Battle of Kosovo, his holy relics were safeguarded there all until 1690, when their three-century-long moving together with the

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people started, as to be finally returned to his endowment today. The Resava-Manasija monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of

Despotovac Despotovac ( sr-cyr, Деспотовац) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is 130 kilometers southeast of Belgrade. Its name stems from Despot, a title of Serbian medieval prince Stefan Lazarevi ...

. The Resava endowment of Despot Stefan Lazarević was built between 1407 and 1418. Over the fifteenth century the famous

Resava School Resava School ( sr, Ресавска школа/Resavska škola), was founded in 1407 by Serbian Despotate, Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević. Based on his endowment, the Manasija monastery, it was called ''Bašta znanja'' or the bastion of know ...

carried out its work there, in the framework of several workshops in which major texts of the world heritage were copied and the new ones written.

Konstantin the Philosopher Constantine of Kostenets ( bg, Константин Костенечки, Konstantin Kostenechki; born ca. 1380, died after 1431), also known as Constantine the Philosopher ( sr, Константин Филозоф), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar ...

, the author of the "Hagiography of Despot Stefan" and the "Book on Letters" which regulated the then current

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, carried out his creative work in the Resava Monastery.

Education

There is one faculty located in the Pomoravlje District that is within the

University of Kragujevac The University of Kragujevac ( sr, Универзитет у Крагујевцу, Univerzitet u Kragujevcu) is a public university in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is the oldest and the largest higher education institution in Šumadija and Western Ser ...

: * Faculty of Education in

References

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External links

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Pomoravlje - portal
{{Authority control Districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia