# Pomoravlje District

The Pomoravlje District (Serbian: Поморавски округ / Pomoravski okrug, pronounced) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It expands to the central parts of Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 214,536 inhabitants. The administrative center is the city of Jagodina.

## Municipalities

The Pomoravlje District contains 6 municipalities (singular: општина, opština - plural: oпштине, opštine). The following table shows the names of each municipality in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and the population of each as of 2011:
| Municipality | Cyrillic | Municipal Pop. | Urban Pop. |
| Jagodina | Јагодина | 71,852 | 37,282 |
| Ćuprija | Ћуприја | 33,356 | 22,302 |
| Paraćin | Параћин | 54,267 | 24,573 |
| Svilajnac | Свилајнац | 23,391 | 9,131 |
| Despotovac | Деспотовац | 22,995 | 4,212 |
| Rekovac | Рековац | 10,971 | 1,930 |

## Demographics

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Pomoravlje District has 214,536 inhabitants. 45.35% of the population lives in the urban areas.

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in the Pomoravlje District :
| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Serbs | Serbs | 94.8% | 94.8% |
| Roma | Roma | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| "Vlachs" (Romanians) | "Vlachs" (Romanians) | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| Montenegrins | Montenegrins | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| Macedonians | Macedonians | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| Romanians (self-declared) | Romanians (self-declared) | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| Croats | Croats | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| Yugoslavs | Yugoslavs | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| Others | Others | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| Ethnic group | Population | % |
| Serbs | 203,419 | 94.82% |
| Romani | 2,638 | 1.23% |
| "Vlachs" (Romanians) | 1,938 | 0.90% |
| Montenegrins | 273 | 0.13% |
| Macedonians | 259 | 0.12% |
| Romanians (self-declared) | 250 | 0.12% |
| Croats | 194 | 0.09% |
| Yugoslavs | 178 | 0.08% |
| Others | 5,387 | 2.51% |
| Total | 214,536 | |

## Society and culture
### Culture

The nineteenth century architecture has been partly preserved in the district. Earlier times are testified by the remnants of edifices, such as The House of Hajduk Veljko from the eighteenth century. Particularly interesting is the Old Church of Archangel Michael, the endowment of Miloš Obrenović, built in 1818.
The Jošanica Monastery was built in the late fourteenth century at the time of Despot Đurađ Branković's reign, and is regarded as the finest medieval building of this region. In the vicinity of Ćuprija stands the Ravanica Monastery with the Church of Assumption, the endowment of Prince Lazar, built between 1375 and 1377. After the death of Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović in the Battle of Kosovo, his holy relics were safeguarded there until 1690, when their three-century-long resettlement with the Serb people started, only to have finally been returned to his endowment, which are there to this day.
The Resava-Manasija monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of Despotovac. The Resava endowment of Despot Stefan Lazarević was built between 1407 and 1418. During the fifteenth century, the famous Resava School carried out its work there, in the framework of several workshops in which major texts of world heritage were copied and new ones written. Konstantin the Philosopher, the author of the "Hagiography of Despot Stefan" and the "Book on Letters", which regulated the Orthography of the Serbian language at that time, carried out his creative work in the Resava Monastery.

### Education

There is one faculty located in the Pomoravlje District that is within the University of Kragujevac:
* Faculty of Education in Jagodina