Sremčica ( sr-cyr, Сремчица) is a
suburban settlement
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separa ...
within the municipality of
Čukarica
Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.
Name
Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refinery, there was a kafana in the sec ...
in the city of
Belgrade,
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 ...
.
Location
Sremčica is located south of Belgrade and begins some 2 km south of the southernmost part of the neighborhood of
Železnik (though centers of these two settlements are 6-7 kilometers apart). It is a typical road settlement stretched along the central ''Beogradska'' street, with many side streets simply being named ''Beogradska'' street part 1, 2, etc., but most of them got their own, separate names in 2004–2007. The northern section of the neighborhood makes a separate local community (''mesna zajednica''), sub-municipal administrative unit, named Gorica but is popularly called ''Naselje'' (Serbian for "settlement") by the local population, which numbered 5,358 in 2002. Southern part is organized as a local community with the same name as the entire settlement, Sremčica. Bot local communities were later merged into one.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census results, Sremčica has 21,001 inhabitants. Predominantly a rural settlement, it is one of the fastest growing suburbs of Belgrade since the 1970s. However, its accelerated growth without any planned construction, is not followed by the equal growth of infrastructure, so most parts of Sremčica have some major communal problems (water,
sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewer system. Sewage consists of wastewater discharged from residenc ...
, traffic). Despite having population of almost 21,000 inhabitants, only two bus lines (511 and 512) connects it to 20 km away Belgrade.
Geography
Terrain around the settlement is partially made of
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms wh ...
(
karstic micro-region, called ''Belgrade merokras''). One of the best known features in Sremčica is a small pond,
Rakina bara, meaning "Raka's pond". It is a small natural lake with an area of , formed in the limestone pit, the only
karst lake on the territory of the city of Belgrade. It is embedded into the
mass wasting
Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity. It differs from other processes of erosion in that the debris transported by mass wasting is not entrained in ...
area and, typically for the karst lakes, has a
sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are locally also known as ''vrtače'' and shakeholes, and to openi ...
. Turned into a
fish pond and projected as the future recreational area, as the settlement grew, population from the neighboring slopes turned their sewage pipes into the pond which is today covered with
reed, turned into a dump and without any fish at all as it almost dried out. The majority of the water is replenished by a local creek.
References
External links
Official websiteUdruženje za unapređenje Sremčice - udruženje građana
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Suburbs of Belgrade
Šumadija
Čukarica