Ugrinovci ( Serbian

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: Угриновци) is a suburban settlement of

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of

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Location

Ugrinovci is located in the eastern section of the

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region, in the western part of the municipality of

, near the administrative border of the municipality of

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. It is located on the

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- Dobanovci road. In the northern direction to

, which is away, is the new sub-neighborhood of Busije, while in the northern direction to Dobanovci (, over the Belgrade-Zagreb highway) is the also new sub-neighbourhood of Grmovac, both being populated since the mid-1990s with refugees from

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and

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, which almost doubled the population of Ugrinovci.

Demographics

The population of Ugrinovci has been steadily growing for the last four decades. The population according to the official censuses: * 1948 - 1,769 * 1953 - 1,728 * 1961 - 1,895 * 1971 - 2,258 * 1981 - 3,278 * 1991 - 4,007 * 2002 - 7,199 * 2012 - 10,807 Ethnic structure In 2002, 97.33% of residents were Serbs and 0.55% were Romani.

Characteristics

Ugrinovci is a village with the majority of its population employed in agriculture. Since the detachment of the municipality of

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from Zemun in 2003, Ugrinovci has remained the only separate settlement in the municipality of Zemun, as all the other settlements (

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, former city of Zemun, etc.) are part of the Belgrade city proper (''uža teritorija grada''). The name of the village comes from the medieval name for

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(''Ugri'').

References

* Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): ''Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije''; Svjetlost-Sarajevo;

External links

* Suburbs of Belgrade Populated places in Syrmia {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub

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