Stari Grad, Belgrade

Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː grâd]) is an urban neighborhuid an ane o 17 municipalities which constitute the Belgrade, the caipital o Serbie. It encompasses some o the auldest sections o urban Belgrade, sicweys the name (‘’stari grad’’, Serbie for “auld ceety”). Stari Grad is ane o the three municipalities that constitute the vera centre o the ceety (thegither wi Savski Venac an Vračar).

Location o Stari Grad athin Belgrade

Neighborhuid

The neighborhuid o Stari Grad is no generally considered bi the Belgraders as ane single definitive neighborhuid. Aurie which Stari Grad covers is aither simply styled "dountoun" or bi the names o the mair established neighborhuid which it owerlaps: northren ("Upper") an eastren pairts o Dorćol (which it borders on the north) or Studentski Trg. Roughly, it spawns northren an wastren frae the Square o the Republic, borderin an aa the neighborhuids o Kalemegdan (wast), Kosančićev Venac (sooth-wast), Jevremovac an Palilula (sooth-wast) an Viline Vode (north-wast), wi a population o 9,646 in 2002.

Municipality

Geography

Stari Grad occupees the endin rig o Šumadija geological bar. The cliff-lik rig, whaur the fortress o Kalemegdan is locatit, owerleuks the Great War Island an the confluence o the Sava river intae the Danube, an maks ane o the maist bonnie naitural leukoots in Belgrade. Wi Novi Beograd, it is ane o 2 municipalities o Belgrade (oot o 17) which occupy the banks o baith major rivers in Belgrade, the Sava an the Danube (Zemun wis the third, but when the municipality o Surčin split, Zemun wis left wi the Danube, an Surčin wi the Sava bank).

The municipality o Stari Grad covers an aurie o juist 7 square kilometers (2.7 sq mi) (seicont smawest in Belgrade, efter Vračar) an borders the municipalities o Paliula on the east, Vračar on the sooth-east an Savski Venac on the sooth. The Sava maks a mairch tae the municipality o Novi Beograd (wast) an the Danube tae the municipalities o Zemun (north-wast) an the Banat's section o Palilula.

The riverside o the Danube haes twa destinct airtificial bays, the sma marina (Marina Dorćol) an the Port o Belgrade.

Population

Lik the ither twa "auld" municipalities o central Belgrade (Savski Venac an Vračar), Stari Grad for decades is a heichlie depopulatin municipality, but bein a central municipality an sma in aurie, it remains ane o the maist densely populatit municipalities in Serbie. Thare wur 55,543 indwallers accordin te the 2002 census or 7,935 /km2 (20,550 /sq mi), compared tae a population o 96,517 wi a density o 13,788 /km2 (35,710 /sq mi) back in 1971. Population o Stari Grad:

• 1961 - 96,517
• 1971 - 83,742
• 1981 - 73,767
• 1991 - 68,552
• 2002 - 55,543 (57.5% o the 1961 population)

Even tho residential auries are hintle densely compact compared tae Vračar, the latter is densely populatit acause awmaist ane third of Stari Grad, even tho it is "heart" of Belgrade is no inhabitit (maistly the lairge pairk o Kalemegdan an the heichlie industrialized riverside o the Danube, wi dozens o factories an spacious hangars an depots). Housomeivver, a nummer o fowk wirkin on the territory o the municipality doubles its awn population an maks possible for the municipality o Stari Grad tae achieve GDP per capita 6 tae 8 times heicher than the average in Serbie.

History

Despite some o the auldest sections o Belgrade belang tae Stari Grad, the municipality itsel is amang the latest urban anes formed admeenistratively. It wis formed bi the merger o the municipality o Skadarlija an pairt o the municipality o Terazije on Januar 1, 1957. Recent presidents o the municipality:

• 1992 – 2000; Jovan Kažić (b. 1937)
• 2000 – present: Mirjana Božidarević (b. 1954)

Internaitional relations

Main airticle: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Serbie

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Stari Grad is twinned wi:

• Yermasoyia, Cyprus
• Kotor, Montenegro
• Staré Mesto, Bratislava, Slovakie
• Centar, Skopje, Republic o Macedonie
• Erzsébetváros, Budapest, Hungary

Neighborhuids

Andrićev Venac Dorćol Jalija Jevremovac

Kalemegdan Kopitareva Gradina Kosančićev Venac London

Skadarlija Stari Grad Studentski Trg Terazije

Terazijska Terasa Nikola Pašić Square Republic Square

Featurs

Admeenistration

• Presidency o the Republic
• Naitional Assembly o Serbie
• Belgrade Ceety Assembly

Economy an tourism

• Lairge industrial zone on the riverside o the Danube (includin the Port o Belgrade)
• BEKO claedin factory
• Kalemegdan pairk
• Botanical garden o Jevremovac
• Belgrade Zoo
• Prince Michael Street
• Bohemian quarter o Skadarlija
• Aleksandar Palas *****
• Hotel Majestic ****
• Hotel Palace ****
• Le Petit Piaf ***
• Hotel Royal ***

Culture

Serbie Academy o Sciences an Airts

• Serbian Academy o Sciences an Airts
• Museum o Applee'd Airts (Vuka Karadžica 18)
• Naitional Museum o Serbie (Trg republike 1a)
• Konak Kneginje Ljubice (Kneza Sime Markovića 3)
• Serbie Orthodox Kirk Museum (Kralja Petra I 5)
• Military Museum (Kalemegdan)
• Museum of Belgrade Fortress (Kalemegdan)
• Museum of Ethnography (Studentski trg 13)
• Museum of Pedagogy (Uzun Mirkova 14)
• Museum o the Ceety o Belgrade (Zmaj Jovina 1)
• Museum o Theatrical Arts o Serbie (Gospodar Jevremova 19)
• Jewish Historical Museum (Kralja Petra I 71/1)
• Museum o Vuk an Dositej (Gospodar Jevremova 21)
• Museum o Automobiles (Majke Jevrosime 30)

As a curiosity, Stari Grad is location o twa shortest streets o Belgrade, Marka Leka an Laze Pačua, which are 45 an 48 meters lang, respectively.. Despite bein in the sole dountoun an densely populatit urban section, thay hae nae nummers as aw the biggins locatit in them are numbered frae the neighborin streets.

See an aa

• Subdiveesions o Belgrade
• Leet o Belgrade neighborhuids an suburbs

Freemit airtins

• Municipality o Stari Grad
• Stari Grad information at the offeecial Belgrade wabsteid