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Today's main street in Grocka was the route of Constantinople road which passed through this area in the 16th century and was one of the most important traffic routes. Grocka was the first rest stop f...
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Vracar marketplace has been in business since 1926 and it was constructed in "Kalenica guvnu" - a plot of land which was one of many foundations of the rich trader Vlajko Kalenic. Vlajko Kalenic inhe...
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The Roman tomb in Brestovnik in the location of Vukasin's church is one of the oldest monuments of culture from the Roman period, discovered in 1895 and the tomb itself dates back to between the III a...
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In the end of 1927 one private company introduced regular bus traffic to Belgrade, using the modern buses with pneumatic tires. Passenger transportation was done in the lines Kalemegdan - Savinac and...
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The monument to Vuk Karadzic is the work of the sculptor Djordje Jovanovic. Both the author and the Serbian Literature Association wanted to set up the monument to the reformator of the Serbian langua...
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In the first year of the 19th century, where today we have the Nikola Pasic square, there used to be a deserted meadow across which led the Constantinople road. That part of the road slowly turned int...
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One of the first taxi drivers in Belgrade was Ivan Majer from Zemun. According to the archives from 1933, he did his work using a green "Ford". 
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The oldest Belgrade elevator is located in the building at 3 Visnjiceva street. This elevator had its own bell-boy and in 1935 it gave its first ride to the first residents of the building. Since the...
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Thhe most important Ortodox temple of medieval Belgrade was dedicated to the Ascending of the Holy Mother of God and was located on today's elevation above the lower Kalemegdan town. The ortodox congr...
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Around the middle of the 19th century Skadarlija was famous under the name Sican-mala, a Romani mahala with a total of 14 houses. It was a neglected, ruined, winding street down which ran the Bibia's...
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The settlement Dusanovac originated at the start of the 20th century in the area covered in farming estates and on the banks of then Mokroluski stream and then Ustanicka street. Dusan Spasic was the...
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The oldest school in Belgrade is located at 7 Kralja Petra street and it began work in 1718. Over time it has changed names and went through turbulent times, but it stayed and remained the first and o...
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"Prinz Eugen Stadt" was the name of Belgrade during the Nazi occupation and that was the last time in history that Belgrade changed its name for its invaders.  The name Belgrade (Belograd) that's in...
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Today's marketplace "Zelen venac" is built on sunken foundations of a theatre. There used to be a pond in that location. When it was drained, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic and Misa Anastasijevic brought a...
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The testing of King Alexander's bridge was done by having the cavalry unit of 700 cavalrymen ride through it. A day earlier the endurance of the new bridge was tested by ten truck-cisterns riding acro...
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On the spot where the Monument of gratitude to France has stood since 1913, there was originally a Monument of gratitude to Karadjordje. The monument dedicated to his grandfather was revealed by King...
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The restaurant "Grcka kraljica" (Greek queen) began working as a tavern in 1835 and is the oldest building in Belgrade that was preserved in its original shape in Knez Mihailova street. This restauran...
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According to some sources, Knez Mihailova was the first street of Belgrade to get an official name. The city managment in 1870's Belgrade made that decision. However, other sources claim that this hap...
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Kosutnjak is the name for the forest and settlement in Belgrade in the city districts Cukarica and Rakovica. Kosutnjak got its name for the ewes that used to live there. Untill 1903 the thick forest u...
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In the place of today's VMA institution there used to be the first airport in Belgrade. It was constructed at the end of 1910 in a military polygon in what was then the Banjica suburbs. At the start o...
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On top of a hill that used to be known as Great Vracar, an astronomical observatory with an astrarium was constructed in 1887. Later this neighborhood and eventually the entire district got their name...
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The shortest street in Stari grad district is Delijska street. A small side street between today's Vuka Karadzica and Uskocka street. Its name, after the Delijska drinking fountain built in 1843, rema...
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Jan Fleming named his famous character, agent James Bond, inspired by the stories his colleague Dusan Popov. He claimed that he remembers day and night the phone number of his uncle who helped him wit...
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The first pharmacy in Belgrade began work on 30th of April 1830 was the Matej Ivanovic pharmacy located on the upper side of the legendary "?" tavern across the way from the Congregation church.  Wit...
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