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In the first decades of the 20th century, before the Zoo was constructed, Kalemegdan had artificial lakes and a stream! They were located where Luna park is today. Water would run down the artificial...
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The first gun duel in Belgrade took place in 1905 in Banovo hill, between the court marshall Bosko Colak Antic and Milan Pavlovic, the editor of the "Opozicionar" newspaper. 
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The stone taken from Tasmajdan was used to construct Viminacium, only to be transported to Smederevo 1000 years later to construct the Serbian medieval fortress. 
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The name "Savamala" is a portmanteau of the words 'Sava' and 'mahala' (small settlement). 
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The Federation Palace (today "Srbija" palace) was constructed in 1959 for the needs of the government, or more precisely the executive board. The Federation Palace was opened in 1961 during the first...
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The municipality of Vracar has existed in its modern form since 1960 and includes parts of areas that used to belong to East Vracar, Neimar and Terazije.
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The home of Topalovic family from the movie "Maratonci trce pocasni krug" is located in Kosancicev venac in the corner of Zadarska and Srebrenicka streets. Aside from changing the color of its facade...
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The Ottomans called the area of Kalemegdan around the Roman well and today's "Victor" "Ficir bajir", which in translation means "hill for thought".
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The Nature museum in Belgrade was founded in 1895 as "Jestastvenicki museum of the Serbian country". The museum was originally housed in the Foundation home of Stevca Mihajlovic in Vracar and the firs...
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The first Serbian opera "Na uranku" composed by Stanislav Binicki was performed in the National theatre on 20th December 1903. The comedian, writer and essay writer Branislav Nusic wrote the liberetto...
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In the Patriarchy building in Belgrade there is a library and the Museum of Serbian Orthodox church that keeps the cloak of knez Lazar.
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To honor Lazar Herbeljanovic, the settlement "Lazarevac" was named after him in 1889. However, there are differring opinions on how this town got its name. One is that the town was named after the ol...
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The first soccer match in Belgrade took place in 1896 in Lowtown near the Nebojsa tower. A Jewish man by the name of Hugo Buli upon his return from studying in Vienna brought the first soccer ball to...
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On Tasmajdan, there is a cave 28m directly under the church of St. Mark. In its depts there is a Nazi hideout, a quarry and a saltpepper cave that served for stone extraction back in the Roman ages, w...
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Avala tower was constructed in 1965 after the project by Uros Bogunovic and Slobodan Janjic. It was destroyed in the NATO bombing on 29th April 1999 and then fully renovated and formally opened on Ap...
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The name New Belgrade was first mentioned in 1924 when Petar Kokotovic, a farmer from Bezanija, started the tavern "Novi Beograde" in the street Tosin Bunar.
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Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti osnovana je 1. novembra 1886. godine. Osnovana je na tradicijama Društva srpske slovesnosti (1841-1864) i Srpskog učenog društva (1864-1892) kao Kraljevska akademija...
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The first underground passageway street crossing in Belgrade was built in New Belgrade, block 21, under Lenjin’s Boulevard (today called Mihajla Pupina Boulevard).The date that its construction began...
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The large gunpowder storage, the popular “Barutana” is an artificial cave that was dug out at the start of the 18th century. The digging was done through the rocks of west undertown, or the so-called...
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Kalenic, Bajloni and Cvetkova marketplaces got their names after wealthy Belgraders who gifted their estates to their city.
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It is believed that the first billiards table in Serbia was located in the tavern "Question mark".
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Prečnik Rimskog bunara iznosi 3.40 metara a njegova dubina je oko 51 metar (dno bunara je niže od dna reke Save). Niz dva spiralna stepeništa, od kojih je jedno služilo za spuštanje, a drugo za penjan...
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The National theatre in Belgrade began work in 1868. The first play "Djuradj Brankovic" by Karoli Obernjak was held (according to the new calendar) on 22nd of November 1868 in the restaurant "Kod engl...
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In the age of Celts and Romans, Zemun was called Taurunum. Its name today is linked to the arrival of Slovenian tribes around 6th century. It is believed that the name ‘Zemun’ came from that period, w...
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