Belgrade Београд Beograd | |
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Ceety | |
Location athin Europe an Serbie | |
Coordinates: 44°49′14″N 20°27′44″E / 44.82056°N 20.46222°ECoordinates: 44°49′14″N 20°27′44″E / 44.82056°N 20.46222°E | |
Kintra | Serbie |
Destrict | Ceety o Belgrade |
Municipalities | 17 |
Establishment | before 279 BC (Singidunum)[2] |
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[1] |
• Rank | 1st |
• Density | 3,241/km2 (8,390/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1233796[1] |
• Destrict | 1659440[1] |
• 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.[5] 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.[1] 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.[6][7] In antiquity, the aurie o Belgrade wis inhabitit bi the Thraco-Dacian[8] 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)[6] It wis awardit ceety richts bi the Romans[9] 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[10] 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[11] an amang the lairgest European ceeties.[12] 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.[13] Its territory is dividit intae 17 municipalities, each haein its awn local cooncil.[14] It covers 3.6% o Serbie's territory, an 24% o the kintra's population lives in the ceety.[15] Belgrade is the central economic hub o Serbie, an the caipital o Serbian education an science.
Thir are the offeecial sister ceeties o Belgrade:[16][17][18][19][20]
Kintra | Ceety | Year |
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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 |
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Athens | 1966 | Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation | |
Banja Luka | 2005 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
Beijing | 1980 | Agreement on Cooperation[21] | |
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[22] | |
Skopje | Juin, 2006 | Agreement on Cooperation[23] |