# Belgrade

| Belgrade Београд Beograd |
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| Ceety |
| BannerCoat airms |
| Location athin Europe an Serbie |
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| Kintra |  Serbie |
| Destrict | Ceety o Belgrade |
| Municipalities | 17 |
| Establishment | before 279 BC (Singidunum) |
| Govrenment |
|  • Mayor | Dragan Đilas (DS) |
|  • Rulin pairties | DS/G17+/SPS-PUPS/LDP |
| Area |
|  • Ceety | 359.96 km2 (138.98 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 3222.68 km2 (1,244.28 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 117 m (384 ft) |
| Population |
|  • Ceety | 1,166,763 |
|  • Rank | 1st |
|  • Density | 3,241/km2 (8,390/sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 1233796 |
|  • Destrict | 1659440 |
|  • Destrict density | 514/km2 (1,330/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 11000 |
| Area code(s) | (+381) 11 |
| Caur plates | BG |
| Website | 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. The urban aurie o the Ceety o Belgrade haes a population o 1.23 million, while ower 1.65 million fowk live within its admeenistrative leemits. 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. In antiquity, the aurie o Belgrade wis inhabitit bi the Thraco-Dacian tribe o *Singi* who wad gie the name tae the ceety efter a fortress wis foondit in the 3rd century BC bi the Celts, who named it Singidun (*dun*, fortress) It wis awardit ceety richts bi the Romans 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 syne the auncient 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 an amang the lairgest European ceeties. Frequently passin frae Ottoman tae Austrian rule which saw destruction o maist o the ceety, the status o Serbian caipital wad be regained ae in 1841, efter the Serbian revolution. Northren Belgrade, tho, 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 govrenment. Its territory is dividit intae 17 municipalities, each haein its awn local cooncil. It covers 3.6% o Serbie's territory, an 24% o the kintra's population lives in the ceety. Belgrade is the central economic hub o Serbie, an the caipital o Serbian education an science.

## Internaitional cooperation an honours

Thir are the offeecial sister ceeties o Belgrade:

| Kintra | Ceety | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | **Corfu** | 2010 |
|  | **Coventry** | 1957 |
|  | **Chicago** | 2005 |
|  | **Lahore** | 2007 |
|  | **Ljubljana** | 2010 |
|  | **Tel Aviv** | 1990 |
|  | **Vienna** | 2003 |

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

Ither seemilar forms o cooperation an ceety friendship:

| Kintra | Ceety | Date | Form |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | **Athens** | 1966 | Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation |
|  | **Banja Luka** | 2005 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Beijing** | 1980 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Berlin** | 1978 | Agreement on Cooperation an Friendship |
|  | **Düsseldorf** | 2004 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Kiev** | 2002 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Madrid** | 2001 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Milan** | 2000 | Memorandum o Agreement, Ceety tae Ceety Programme |
|  | **Moscow** | 2002 | Programme o Cooperation |
|  | **Roum** | 1971 | Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation |
|  | **Shenzhen** | 2009 | Agreement on Cooperation |
|  | **Skopje** | Juin, 2006 | Agreement on Cooperation |