Belgrade | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade


00:02:30 1 History
00:02:39 1.1 Prehistory
00:04:33 1.2 Antiquity
00:06:35 1.3 Middle Ages
00:10:46 1.4 Ottoman rule and Austrian invasions
00:12:52 1.5 Principality of Serbia
00:17:23 1.6 Kingdom of Serbia
00:18:41 1.7 World War I
00:19:58 1.8 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
00:21:28 1.9 World War II
00:24:11 1.10 Socialist Yugoslavia
00:25:06 1.11 Breakup of Yugoslavia
00:26:43 1.12 Modern Belgrade
00:28:06 2 Geography
00:31:38 2.1 Climate
00:33:09 3 Administration
00:34:16 3.1 Capital city
00:34:50 3.2 Municipalities
00:35:53 4 Demographics
00:38:43 5 Economy
00:42:39 6 Culture
00:45:46 6.1 Museums
00:50:10 6.2 Architecture
00:52:13 6.3 Tourism
00:58:46 6.4 Nightlife
01:01:10 6.5 Sport
01:03:14 6.6 Fashion and design
01:04:29 7 Media
01:06:04 8 Education
01:07:25 9 Transportation
01:11:27 10 International cooperation and honours
01:13:11 11 See also



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Belgrade ( BEL-grayd; Serbian: Beograd / Београд, meaning 'white city', Serbian pronunciation: [beǒɡrad] (listen); names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The urban area of the City of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while nearly 1.7 million people live within its administrative limits.One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco–Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it Singidūn. It was conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and awarded Roman city rights in the mid-2nd century. It was settled by the Slavs in the 520s, and changed hands several times between the Byzantine Empire, the Frankish Empire, the Bulgarian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary before it became the seat of the Serbian king Stefan Dragutin (ruled 1282–1316). In 1521, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and became the seat of the Sanjak of Smederevo. It frequently passed from Ottoman to Habsburg rule, which saw the destruction of most of the city during the Austro-Ottoman wars. Belgrade was again named the capital of Serbia in 1841. Northern Belgrade remained the southernmost Habsburg post until 1918, when the city was reunited. In a fatally strategic position, the city was battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times. Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia from its creation in 1918 to its dissolution in 2006.
Belgrade has special administrative status within Serbia and is one of the five statistical regions that make up the country. Its metropolitan territory is divided into 17 municipalities, each with its own local council. The city of Belgrade covers 3.6% of Serbia's territory, and around 24% of the country's population lives within its administrative limits. It is classified as a Beta-Global City.