Belgrade

Belgrade (, Beograd ) 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 Ljubljana2010  Tel Aviv 1990 Vienna2003

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 Beijing1980Agreement 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

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Category:Auncient ceeties in Serbie
Category:Caipitals in Europe
Category:Destricts o Serbie
Category:Metropolitan auries o Serbie
Category:Populatit places established in the 3rd century BC
Category:Populatit places on the Danube
Category:Port ceeties in Serbie
Category:Statistical regions o Serbie
Category:Šumadija