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Dedinje
Dedinje ( sr-cyrl, Дедиње, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. Dedinje is generally considered the wealthiest part of Belgrade, and is the site of numerous villas and mansions owned by the members of the city's plutocracy, as well as many diplomatic residences. Location Dedinje is located on the eastern slopes of the hill of Topčidersko Brdo, 7-8 kilometers south of downtown Belgrade to which it is connected by the '' Kneza Miloša street''. It borders the neighborhoods of Senjak (west), Prokop and Mostar (north), Stadion and Diplomatska Kolonija (actually, Dedinje's sub-neighborhood; east), Banjica, Lisičji Potok and Topčider (south). It is well connected to the other parts of Belgrade by several boulevards (of ''Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević'', '' Vojvoda Putnik'') and broad streets ('' Teodora Drajzera'', ''Neznanog junaka'', etc.). Main street in the neighborhood i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senjak
Senjak ( sr-Cyrl, Сењак, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. Located in Savski Venac, one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center of the city, it is an affluent neighborhood containing embassies, diplomatic residences, and mansions. Senjak is generally considered one of the wealthiest parts of Belgrade. History and etymology Before it became interesting to Belgrade's upper classes, Senjak was an excellent natural lookout. As many farmers kept their hay throughout the entire city, fires were quite frequent, so it was ordered for hay to be collected and kept in one place, and the area of modern Senjak was chosen, apparently also getting its name in the process (from the word ''seno'', Serbian for hay). Especially bad was the fire in the late September 1857, when almost all stacks of hay stored in the Belgrade Fortress burned. Also, the hay for army horses was kept here in the late 19th century. A more romantic theory of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topčider
Topčider ( sr-cyr, Топчидер; ) is a forest park and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between the municipalities of Čukarica, Rakovica and Savski Venac. Being close to downtown, it is one of the major locations for relaxation, picnics and fresh air for the citizens of Belgrade. As a result of the 1923 Belgrade's general plan, where one of the main projects regarding the green areas was forestation of the area between Topčider and the city, a continuous green area Senjak-Topčidersko Brdo-Hajd Park-Topčider-Košutnjak was formed by the 1930s. This continuous forested area makes the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue. Nobelist author Ivo Andrić wrote: "You just hang on to Topčider and Košutnjak...Topčider is my favorite place, where I ate bread and drank wine in the sweetest and calmest manner". Location Geographically, Topčider covers a much larger area than what people generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topčidersko Brdo
Topčidersko Brdo ( sr-cyr, Топчидерско Брдо; ) is an urban neighborhood and former municipality of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. Location Topčidersko Brdo (from Turkish and Persian, ''topčider'' meaning "cannonier's valley") is located south-east of downtown Belgrade to which it is directly connected through the '' Kneza Miloša'' street. The central street of Topčidersko Brdo is the Boulevard of Vojvoda Putnik with a roundabout of Topčiderska Zvezda ("Topčider star"). On the western slope of the hill, which sharply ends above the Sava river, the neighborhood of Senjak is located, while east of the Boulevard of Vojvoda Putnik is the neighborhood of Dedinje. Northern slope, in the valley of the former creek of Mokroluški potok (now conducted underground) was occupied by the former neighborhood of Jatagan Mala which was demolished to make way for the new interchange on a highway, Mostarska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savski Venac
Savski Venac ( sr-cyr, Савски Венац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a population of 36,699 inhabitants. It is one of the three municipalities which constitute the very center of Belgrade, together with Stari Grad and Vračar. Savski Venac is located on the right bank of the Sava river. It stretches in the north-south direction for (from downtown Belgrade, just from Terazije, to Banjica) and east-west direction for (from Senjak and the Sava bank to Autokomanda). It borders the municipalities of Stari Grad to the north, Vračar to the north-east, Voždovac to the east, Rakovica to the south and Čukarica to the west. History and name While Savski Venac and Stari Grad are often styled ''the oldest municipalities'' of Belgrade due to their inclusion of the oldest sections of urban Belgrade outside the walls of the Kalemegdan fortress, they are actually the most recently created municipaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dedinje Royal Compound
The Dedinje Royal Compound () is a complex of former royal residences commissioned by and built with the personal funds of King Alexander I in the Dedinje neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, between 1924 and 1937. The Dedinje Royal Compound covers an area of 134 hectares covered with parks and contains two residences: Kraljevski Dvor and Beli Dvor; as well as a small Thatched House and service buildings (kitchens, garages, guards barracks). The compound is owned by the Serbian state and since 2001 has been managed by the Kraljevski Dvor Fund under the direction of the Crown Prince Alexander. Kraljevski Dvor The Kraljevski Dvor (, lit. "Royal Palace") is a grand stucco villa in the Serbo-Byzantine Revival style by architects Živojin Nikolić and Russian architects Nikolay Krasnov. It was built from 1924 to 1929 with the private funds of King Alexander I and was the official residence of the Karađorđević royal family from 1934 to 1941. It is today home to a pretender to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. 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 of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomatska Kolonija
Diplomatska Kolonija ( sr-cyr, Дипломатска Колонија) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. Diplomatska kolonija is a small sub-neighborhood of Dedinje, located in its eastern section, right behind the ''Dragiša Mišović'' hospital and south of the Rajko Mitić Stadium, football stadium of the FK Crvena Zvezda. The neighborhood of Stadion is just north of it. It is generally centered on the street of the same name ''Diplomatska kolonija'' (Serbian for "diplomatic colony"). It is considered a fancy and expensive area of Belgrade, with new building of RTV Pink Pink is a privately owned, national brand of radio stations and TV channels in Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem ... in the western section of the neighborhood. A street crossing the diplom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion (Belgrade)
Stadion ( sr-cyr, Стадион) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. Location Stadion is located just west of the neighborhood of Autokomanda. It also borders the neighborhoods of Dedinje to the west, Diplomatska Kolonija to the south and Voždovac to the east. It is bordered by the ''Ljutice Bogdana'' and ''Dr Milutina Ivkovica'' streets and the ''Boulevard of prince Alexander Karađorđević''. In between, it also includes the streets of ''Maglajska'', ''Sime Lukina Lazića'', ''Ružićeva'', ''Jezdićeva'' and ''Šekspirova''. Characteristics Stadion is a small neighborhood, named so because it spreads between two largest football stadiums in Belgrade (''stadion'', Serbian for stadium), those of Partizan and Crvena Zvezda ( Marakana). The area is entirely residential, with two small parks on its ends, elongated one along the boulevard and triangular one, pointed to Autokomanda. The la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokop (Belgrade)
Prokop ( sr-cyr, Прокоп) is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. The major facility in the neighborhood is the new Belgrade Centre railway station, opened for limited use in 2016. Due to the name of the main street in the old section of the neighborhood, and the name of the local community (sub-municipal administrative unit) which includes Prokop, the neighborhood's name is occasionally reported as Stjepan Filipović. Location Prokop is located at the southern edges of downtown Belgrade to which it is directly connected by the ''Kneza Miloša street''. It borders the area of former Zapadni Vračar on the north, Mostarska Petlja, Mostar and Senjak on the west and Dedinje on the south. It is bounded by three boulevards: ''Franše D'Eperea'' (named after Louis Franchet d'Esperey, general D'Esperey and in fact a part of A1 motorway (Serbia), A1 highway), ''Vojvode Put ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisičji Potok
Lisičji Potok ( sr-cyr, Лисичји Поток, Fox Creek) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. Location Lisičji Potok is located in the eastern section of the municipality. It stretches in the north-south direction, in the valley between the Topčider and Banjica hills and neighborhoods, connecting the neighborhoods of Dedinje on the north and Kanarevo Brdo on the south. On the northern tip of the neighborhood is the Beli Dvor, a court of the Serbian former royal dynasty Karađorđević and the present residence of the pretender Aleksandar Karađorđević and his family. Characteristics In 2010, total forest area of Lisičji Potok covered . King's drinking fountain Halfway between the Beli Dvor and the seat of the local community Košutnjak, there is a drinking fountain which is built at the spring of the Lisičji Potok creek. The spring used to provide water for the Royal Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjica
Banjica (, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It's divided between Belgrade's municipalities of Savski Venac (western half) and Voždovac (eastern half). Location Banjica is located 5–6 kilometers south of the center of Belgrade ( Terazije), on the Banjica hill. On the southwest, the hill descends into the valley and neighborhood of Lisičji Potok and further continues into the hill and woods of Topčider while on the southwest and souuth it descends into the valley of the creek of ''Kaljavi potok'', bordering the neighborhoods of Kanarevo Brdo (south-west) and Jajinci (south). To the west, Banjica extends into the elite neighborhood of Dedinje while the eastern side is covered by the Banjica forest, a long narrow belt of deciduous woodland along the Boulevard of Liberation, which used to separate Banjica from the neighborhoods of Voždovac and Trošarina. Nowadays those neighborhoods are connected to Banjica. Geography There are two for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
