Veliko Gradište
Veliko Gradište ( Serbian Cyrillic Велико Градиште ) is a port city on the banks of the dammed on the Danube Đerdapsees in Serbia.
Veliko Gradište is also the seat of the 344 km ² large municipality of the same name. The municipality has 27,000 inhabitants, of which 6,500 to the city of Veliko Gradište and the remaining 20,500 inhabitants distributed among the 26 settlements in the municipality. In German translation of the place name means about Great Castle Square ( Veliko = Large, degree = castle ).
Geography
Veliko Gradište is located 129 km east of Belgrade, on the Djerdap Mainline. The municipality of Veliko Gradište bordered to the east by the municipality of Golubac, in the southeast on the community Kučevo, on the southwest by the municipality of Malo Crniće, in the west on the community Požarevac, in the northwest, along the Danube, on the community of Bela Crkva (and thus to nordserbische the Vojvodina province ), and in the north, also along the Danube, it forms the border between Serbia and Romania. Politically, the municipality belongs to the district Braničevo.
The community is 60% plains, 25 % take the hills and 15 % of the community attributable to low mountain range. The highest point of the village is 362 m mountain Lipovačka, the lowest point is 68 m above sea level, the mouth of the river Pek into the Danube. Veliko Gradište itself is located at an altitude of 81 m above sea level.
Climate
The climate is temperate in Veliko Gradište - continental, with long summers and relatively high temperatures. During the summer months of July and August Veliko Gradište often counts of the warmest places in the whole of Serbia. Then, the average temperature is over 25 ° C.
Environment
In the 1990s, a tributary of the Danube, which embraced an island together with the Altdonau, separated by the Danube. Thus, although the island disappeared, but from the side arm was the Srebrno Jezero (German Silver Lake ), which is used for tourism. On the shore of the lake is also the leisure facility Beli Bagrem.
In the extreme north- west of the municipality, on the provincial border with the Vojvodina, the location is situated Ram. Is a ferry across the mighty Danube between Ram and the adjacent Banatska Palanka in Vojvodina. There is also a medieval castle ruins.
- Place in Okrug Braničevo
- Place on the Danube
- Opština Veliko Gradište