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Belgrade
Београд
Beograd
—  Ceety  —
Pobednik monument in Kalemegdan, owerleukin the skyline o Novi Beograd

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Coat o airms
Location athin Europe an Serbie
Coordinates: 44°49′14″N 20°27′44″E / 44.82056°N 20.46222°E / 44.82056; 20.46222
Kintra Banner o Serbie Serbie
Destrict Ceety o Belgrade
Municipalities 17
Establishment before 279 BC (Singidunum)[1]
Govrenment
 - Mayor Dragan Đilas (DS)
 - Rulin pairties DS/G17+/SPS-PUPS/LDP
Aurie[2]
 - Ceety 359.96 km2 (139 sq mi)
 - Metro 3,222.68 km2 (1,244.3 sq mi)
Hicht[3] 117 m (384 ft)
Indwallers (2011)[4]
 - Ceety Increase 1,154,589
 - Densitie 3,207.5/km2 (8,307.4/sq mi)
 - Metro Increase 1,639,121
 - Metro 
densitie		 508.6/km2 (1,317.3/sq mi)
Demonym Belgrader
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Simmer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 11000
Aurie code(s) (+381) 11
Caur plates BG
Wabsteid www.beograd.rs

Belgrade (Serbie: Београд, Beograd [bɛˈɔɡrad] ( listen)) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Serbie. The ceety lies at the confluence o the Sava an Danube rivers, whaur the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans.[5] Belgrade haes a population o 1,756,534 (2007),[6] Its name in Serbian translates tae White ceety.

Belgrade's wider ceety aurie wis the birthplace o the lairgest prehistoric cultur o Europe, the Vinča cultur, as early as the 6t millennium BC.[7][8] In antiquity, the aurie o Belgrade wis inhabitit bi the Thraco-Dacian[9] tribe o Singi who woud give the name tae the ceety efter a fortress wis foondit in the 3rd century BC bi the Celts, who named it Singidun (dun, fortress)[7] It wis awardit ceety richts bi the Romans[10] afore it wis permanently settled bi Serbs frae the 7t century onwards. As a strategic location, the ceety wis battled ower in 115 wars an razed tae the grund 44 times[11] since the ancient period bi coontless airmies o the East an Wast. In medieval times, it wis in the possession o Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian an Serbian rulers. In 1521 Belgrade wis conquered bi the Ottomans an became the seat o the Pashaluk o Belgrade, as the principal ceety o Ottoman Europe[12] an amang the lairgest European ceeties.[13] Frequently passin frae Ottoman tae Austrian rule which saw destruction o maist o the ceety, the status o Serbian caipital woud be regained ae in 1841, efter the Serbian revolution. Northren Belgrade, though, remained a Habsburg ootpost till the breakup o Austrick-Hungary in 1918. The unitit ceety then became the caipital o several incarnations o Yugoslavie, up tae 2006, when Serbie became an independent state again.

Belgrade haes the status o a separate territorial unit in Serbie, wi its awn autonomous ceety government.[14] Its territory is dividit intae 17 municipalities, each haein its awn local cooncil.[15] It covers 3.6% o Serbie's territory, an 24% o the kintra's population lives in the ceety.[16] Belgrade is the central economic hub o Serbie, an the caipital o Serbian education an science.

Internaitional cooperation an honours [edit]

These are the offeecial sister ceeties o Belgrade:[17][18][19][20][21]

Kintra Ceety Year
Banner o Greece Corfu 2010
Banner o Unitit Kinrick Coventry 1957
Banner o United States Chicago 2005
Banner o Pakistan Lahore 2007
Banner o Slovenia Ljubljana 2010
Banner o Israel Tel Aviv 1990
Banner o Austria Vienna 2003

Some o the ceety's municipalities are an aa twinned tae sma ceeties or destricts o ither big ceeties, for details see their respective airticles.

Ither similar forms o cooperation an ceety friendship:

Kintra Ceety Date Form
Banner o Greece Athens 1966 Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation
Banner o Bosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka 2005 Agreement on Cooperation
Banner o China Beijing 1980 Agreement on Cooperation[22]
Banner o Germany Berlin 1978 Agreement on Cooperation an Friendship
Banner o Germany Düsseldorf 2004 Agreement on Cooperation
Banner o Ukraine Kiev 2002 Agreement on Cooperation
Banner o Spain Madrid 2001 Agreement on Cooperation
Banner o Italy Milan 2000 Memorandum o Agreement, Ceety tae Ceety Programme
Banner o Russia Moscow 2002 Programme o Cooperation
Banner o Italy Rome 1971 Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation
Banner o China Shenzhen 2009 Agreement on Cooperation[23]
Banner o Macedonia Skopje Juin, 2006 Agreement on Cooperation[24]

References [edit]

  1. ↑ Ancient Period. City of Belgrade (5 October 2000). Retrieved on 16 November 2010. .
  2. ↑ Territory. City of Belgrade. Retrieved on 6 Mey 2009. .
  3. ↑ Geographical position. City of Belgrade. Retrieved on 10 Julie 2007. .
  4. ↑ (in Serbian) PRVI REZULTATI, Konferencija za novinare, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 2011-11-15, p. 11, http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/repository/documents/00/00/49/86/Prvi_rezultati_Konferencija.pps 
  5. ↑ City of Belgrade - Why invest in Belgrade?. Beograd.rs. Retrieved on 11 October 2010. .
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named zis
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Discover Belgrade. Official Website. Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009. .
  8. ↑ Tasic N, Srejovic D, Stojanovic B (1990). Vinca, Centre of the Neolithic culture of the Danubian region. Project Rastko - E-library of Serb Culture. Retrieved on 2009-05-05.
  9. ↑ [1][deid airtin]
  10. ↑ Rich, John (1992). The City in Late Antiquity. CRC Press. Retrieved on 2009-05-05.
  11. ↑ Robert Nurden. "Belgrade haes risen frae the ashes tae become the Balkans' pairty ceety", Independent, 2009-03-22. Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009..
  12. ↑ The History of Belgrade. BelgradeNet Travel Guide. Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009. .
  13. ↑ Turkish and Austrian Rule. Official website. Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009. .
  14. ↑ Assembly of the City of Belgrade. Official website. Retrieved on 10 Julie 2007. .
  15. ↑ Urban Municipalities. Official website. Retrieved on 10 Julie 2007. .
  16. ↑ 2005 Municipal indicators of Republic of Serbia. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved on 17 Mey 2007. .
  17. ↑ International Cooperation. Official website. Retrieved on 10 Julie 2007. .
  18. ↑ Beograd: Međunarodni odnosi. Stalna konferencija gradova i opština Srbije. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. . Retrieved on 18 Juin 2007. .
  19. ↑ Council okays peace committees: Lahore and Chicago to be declared twin cities.. The Post (2007-01-28). Retrieved on 16 Mey 2007. .
  20. ↑ Bratimljenje Beograda i Krfa. B92. Retrieved on 25 Februar 2010. .
  21. ↑ Gradonačelnici Beograda i Ljubljane potpisali sporazum o bratimljenju dva glavna grada
  22. ↑ Sister Cities. Beijing Municipal Government. Retrieved on 23 September 2008. .
  23. ↑ Saradnja Beograda i Šendžena. B92. Retrieved on 11 Julie 2009. .
  24. ↑ City of Belgrade - International Cooperation. Beograd.rs. Retrieved on 25 Januar 2010. .
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