Stari Grad, Belgrade

Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic - Стари Град, German translation: Old Town) is the oldest district of Belgrade and one of 17 districts of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia form. The historical heart of Belgrade is located in Stari Grad.

Cityscape

Stari Grad is characterized by four separate urban units that reflect the city's development from the 15th century until the first half of the 20th century. The actual core of Stari Grad is the area that extends from the 16th century from Kalemegdan to the former city wall ( she described the rectangle between the road Cara Dusana, Francuska, Obilicev Venac and Kosaničev Venac ).

The investment of the fortress of Belgrade with the upper and lower city comes into its present form, the conversions in the 15th and 18th centuries. Prior to the fortress of the Small and Large Kalemegdan is located. The area on the Danube Terrace, DORCOL, was considered as a former Jewish quarter. The after the demolition of the city walls after 1868 newly built neighborhoods of Stari Grad extend to Takovska ulica and Ulica Knez Miloša.

The oldest part of Stari Grad is characterized by old buildings and the church Saborna Crkva with the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate and the Serbian National Museum, the Serbian National Theatre on Trg Republike and Knez Mihaila Ulica Boulevard and the Kapetan Misino Zdanje at Studentski trg. The last mosque of the city, the Bajrakli džamija, lies here. In the advanced areas after 1868 is the Botanical Garden Jevremovac, the Parliament of Serbia, as well as the Old and New Royal Castle.

Geography

On a limestone cliff 50 meters above the Sava flows into the Danube lies the 50 -acre fortress of Belgrade. On the former glacis is now the largest park in the neighborhood of Stari Grad, the Kalemegdan.

Population

Like the other two old neighborhoods in the city center ( Savski Venac and Vračar ) is the demographic development in Stari Grad dominated for decades by a strong population decline, but still remains one of the most densely populated districts in Serbia. According to the census of 2002 there were in Stari Grad 55 543 inhabitants ( 7,935 inhabitants per square kilometer ), compared with 96 517 ( 13 788 inhabitants per square kilometer ) in 1971.

Demographics of Stari Grad:

Ethnic groups (2002):

  • Serbs - 48 027 or 86.47 %
  • Yugoslavs - 1,404 or 2.53%
  • Montenegrins - 1,031 or 1.86%
  • Croats - 409 or 0.74 %
  • Macedonians - 308 or 0.55%
  • Roma - 305 or 0.55%

History

Although the oldest part of Belgrade, the district has only formed one of the last. Stari Grad was created by merging the districts Skadarlija and a part of the district Terazije on 1 January 1957.

Twin Cities

Twin towns of Stari Grad are:

  • Cyprus Republic Germasogeia ( Yermasoyia ), Cyprus
  • Montenegro Kotor, Montenegro
  • Slovakia Stare Mesto, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Macedonia Centar, Skopje, Macedonia
  • Erzsébetváros Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

Districts

  • Andrićev Venac
  • Dorćol
  • Jalija
  • Jevremovac
  • Kalemegdan
  • Kopitareva Gradina
  • Kosancicev Venac
  • London
  • Skadarlija
  • Stari Grad
  • Studentski Trg
  • Terazije
  • Terazijska Terasa
  • Trg Nikole Pasica
  • Trg Republike
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