Ljuljaci () is a village located in the

Knić Knić (; ) is a village and municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 2,166, while population of the municipality is 14,237. Settlements Aside from the town of Knić, ...

municipality in the

Šumadija District The Šumadija District ( sr, / , ) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It is located in the central parts of the country. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 293,308 inhabitants, a ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

. According to the 2002 census there was 369 people inhabiting the village, in 1991 the number was 475.

Dragoslav Srejović Dragoslav Srejović ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Срејовић; Kragujevac, 8 October 1931 – 29 November 1996) was a Serbian archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian. He was the main contributor to the exploration of the Lepensk ...

, a famous Serbian archaeologist and academic traces his family origin (Srejovići) to this village, he has organized the excavations of the prehistoric Bronze Age tumuli which he defined of the Racha-Ljuljaci cultural group, a local variant of the

Vatin culture The Vatin culture ( sr, Ватинска култура, Vatinska kultura / or sr, translit=Vatinska grupa, Ватинска група, label=none) is a name of an prehistoric Bronze Age culture, which was named after Vatin, a village in Serbi ...

Triballi The Triballi ( grc, Τριβαλλοί, Triballoí, lat, Triballi) were an ancient people who lived in northern Bulgaria in the region of Roman Oescus up to southeastern Serbia, possibly near the territory of the Morava Valley in the late Iron ...

(

Thracian The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied ...

) tombs have been found on the site. The village is a former ''gradina''.

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* Populated places in Šumadija District Šumadija Ancient sites in Serbia {{ŠumadijaRS-geo-stub