Stari Grad, Belgrade

Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, ) is an urban neighborhuid an ane o 17 municipalities which constitute the Belgrade, the caipital o Serbie. It encompasses some o the auldest sections o urban Belgrade, sicweys the name (‘’stari grad’’, Serbie for “auld ceety”). Stari Grad is ane o the three municipalities that constitute the vera centre o the ceety (thegither wi Savski Venac an Vračar).

Neighborhuid

The neighborhuid o Stari Grad is no generally considered bi the Belgraders as ane single definitive neighborhuid. Aurie which Stari Grad covers is aither simply styled "dountoun" or bi the names o the mair established neighborhuid which it owerlaps: northren ("Upper") an eastren pairts o Dorćol (which it borders on the north) or Studentski Trg. Roughly, it spawns northren an wastren frae the Square o the Republic, borderin an aa the neighborhuids o Kalemegdan (wast), Kosančićev Venac (sooth-wast), Jevremovac an Palilula (sooth-wast) an Viline Vode (north-wast), wi a population o 9,646 in 2002.

Municipality
Geography

Stari Grad occupees the endin rig o Šumadija geological bar. The cliff-lik rig, whaur the fortress o Kalemegdan is locatit, owerleuks the Great War Island an the confluence o the Sava river intae the Danube, an maks ane o the maist bonnie naitural leukoots in Belgrade. Wi Novi Beograd, it is ane o 2 municipalities o Belgrade (oot o 17) which occupy the banks o baith major rivers in Belgrade, the Sava an the Danube (Zemun wis the third, but when the municipality o Surčin split, Zemun wis left wi the Danube, an Surčin wi the Sava bank).

The municipality o Stari Grad covers an aurie o juist 7 square kilometers (2.7 sq mi) (seicont smawest in Belgrade, efter Vračar) an borders the municipalities o Paliula on the east, Vračar on the sooth-east an Savski Venac on the sooth. The Sava maks a mairch tae the municipality o Novi Beograd (wast) an the Danube tae the municipalities o Zemun (north-wast) an the Banat's section o Palilula.

The riverside o the Danube haes twa destinct airtificial bays, the sma marina (Marina Dorćol) an the Port o Belgrade.

Population

Lik the ither twa "auld" municipalities o central Belgrade (Savski Venac an Vračar), Stari Grad for decades is a heichlie depopulatin municipality, but bein a central municipality an sma in aurie, it remains ane o the maist densely populatit municipalities in Serbie. Thare wur 55,543 indwallers accordin te the 2002 census or 7,935 /km2 (20,550 /sq mi), compared tae a population o 96,517 wi a density o 13,788 /km2 (35,710 /sq mi) back in 1971. Population o Stari Grad:

 1961 - 96,517
 1971 - 83,742
 1981 - 73,767
 1991 - 68,552
 2002 - 55,543 (57.5% o the 1961 population)

Even tho residential auries are hintle densely compact compared tae Vračar, the latter is densely populatit acause awmaist ane third of Stari Grad, even tho it is "heart" of Belgrade is no inhabitit (maistly the lairge pairk o Kalemegdan an the heichlie industrialized riverside o the Danube, wi dozens o factories an spacious hangars an depots). Housomeivver, a nummer o fowk wirkin on the territory o the municipality doubles its awn population an maks possible for the municipality o Stari Grad tae achieve GDP per capita 6 tae 8 times heicher than the average in Serbie.

History
Despite some o the auldest sections o Belgrade belang tae Stari Grad, the municipality itsel is amang the latest urban anes formed admeenistratively. It wis formed bi the merger o the municipality o Skadarlija an pairt o the municipality o Terazije on Januar 1, 1957. Recent presidents o the municipality:

 1992 – 2000; Jovan Kažić (b. 1937)
 2000 – present: Mirjana Božidarević (b. 1954)

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Stari Grad is twinned wi:

  Yermasoyia, Cyprus
   Kotor, Montenegro
  Staré Mesto, Bratislava, Slovakie
   Centar, Skopje, Republic o Macedonie
   Erzsébetváros, Budapest, Hungary

Neighborhuids
Andrićev Venac
Dorćol
Jalija
JevremovacKalemegdan
Kopitareva Gradina
Kosančićev Venac
LondonSkadarlija
Stari Grad
Studentski Trg
TerazijeTerazijska Terasa
Nikola Pašić Square
Republic Square

Featurs

Admeenistration
Presidency o the Republic
Naitional Assembly o Serbie
Belgrade Ceety Assembly

Economy an tourism

 Lairge industrial zone on the riverside o the Danube (includin the Port o Belgrade)
 BEKO claedin factory
 Kalemegdan pairk
 Botanical garden o Jevremovac
 Belgrade Zoo
 Prince Michael Street
 Bohemian quarter o Skadarlija
 Aleksandar Palashttp://www.aleksandarpalas.com/ *****
 Hotel Majestic ****
 Hotel Palace ****
 Le Petit Piafhttp://www.petitpiaf.com ***
 Hotel Royal ***

Culture

 Serbian Academy o Sciences an Airts
 Museum o Applee'd Airts (Vuka Karadžica 18)
 Naitional Museum o Serbie (Trg republike 1a) 
 Konak Kneginje Ljubice (Kneza Sime Markovića 3) 
 Serbie Orthodox Kirk Museum (Kralja Petra I 5)
 Military Museum (Kalemegdan)
 Museum of Belgrade Fortress (Kalemegdan)
 Museum of Ethnography (Studentski trg 13) 
 Museum of Pedagogy (Uzun Mirkova 14) 
 Museum o the Ceety o Belgrade (Zmaj Jovina 1)
 Museum o Theatrical Arts o Serbie (Gospodar Jevremova 19) 
 Jewish Historical Museum (Kralja Petra I 71/1)
 Museum o Vuk an Dositej (Gospodar Jevremova 21)
 Museum o Automobiles (Majke Jevrosime 30)

As a curiosity, Stari Grad is location o twa shortest streets o Belgrade, Marka Leka an Laze Pačua, which are 45 an 48 meters lang, respectively.Politika, April 26, 2008, p.30. Despite bein in the sole dountoun an densely populatit urban section, thay hae nae nummers as aw the biggins locatit in them are numbered frae the neighborin streets.

See an aa
Subdiveesions o Belgrade
Leet o Belgrade neighborhuids an suburbs

References

Freemit airtins
Municipality o Stari Grad
Stari Grad information at the offeecial Belgrade wabsteid 

Category:Neighborhuids o Belgrade
Category:Municipalities o Belgrade