Plavi Horizonti ( sr-cyr, Плави Хоризонти) is an urban neighborhood of

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. T ...

, the capital of

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of

Zemun Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; ) is a Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown ...

. With Altina, one of the newest and fastest developing neighborhoods.

Location

Plavi Horizont is located in the western section of Zemun, stretching along the Belgrade-

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railway. It borders the neighborhoods of Altina in the north and stretches into the direction of Vojni Put II and Kolonija Zmaj on the southeast and

Zemun Polje Zemun Polje () is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Zemun. Location Zemun Polje is located on both railway and highway Belgrade-Novi Sad, halfway between the western section of urban ...

on the northwest.

History

Until the late 1990s the area was an uninhabited barren meadow. With the outbreak of the

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in 1991, and especially after the 1995 Oluja offensive of the

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, many refugees settled in this area, which resulted in creation of several new settlements (Altina, Plavi Horizonti, Grmovac,

Busije Busije ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бусије) is a suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Busije is a sub-neighborhood of Ugrinovci, the only separate settlement in th ...

). The settlement began to grow in the early 2000s and consists solely from the individual residential houses with yards.

Characteristics

Plavi Horizonti and Altina grew into the small town, adjoining the Zemun's western urban area and making an urban connection to the neighborhoods of

Školsko Dobro Zemun Polje () is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Zemun. Location Zemun Polje is located on both railway and highway Belgrade-Novi Sad, halfway between the western section of urban ...

and Zemun Polje. After 2000, certain urbanistic arrangement of the settlement began: the roads and streets were paved, etc. but many problems concerning the communal infrastructure remain. The name of the settlement is descriptive, meaning “blue horizons” in Serbian. When the Sun would rise or set, the vast meadows which preceded the settlement would appear bluish. There is a church dedicated to Saint Athanasius the Great in Plavi Horizonti. On 9 October 2023, a memorial was dedicated in the

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, commemorating citizens of

Peć Peja or Peć, ), is the fifth most populous city in Kosovo and serves as the seat of the Peja Municipality and the District of Peja. It is located in the Rugova (region), Rugova region on the eastern section of the Accursed Mountains along the ...

killed during the

Kosovo war The Kosovo War (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It ...

. The memorial was designed by the architect Gorica Bojović Ljubenov, and contains 167 names of people killed in 1998 and 1999, and names of the children killed in the 2003 Goraždevac murders. The memorial was funded by donations from exiled residents of Peć.

Population

Estimated population in 2013 was 2,000 inhabitants in 700 houses.

References

Neighborhoods of Belgrade {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub