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The oldest tale about how Vracar got its name is from 1521. It says that the neighborhood got its name after a hero whose name was Vracar and who lived in a cottage there. Another legend say that spar...
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Cukarica got its name after the famous "Cukareva mehana" by Stojko Cukar in 1850. The building was located across the way from today's Ada Ciganlija in Radnicka street and was the first building const...
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The word "Bezistan" is of Ottoman origina and signifies the spot where the trading house at a bazaar is located, mostly constructed with stone and covered by a system of multiple domes or an arching r...
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In Republic square after WWII there was a square with a tomb and the monument to Red Army fighters who died while liberating Belgrade in 1944. The tomb was moved to New Cemetary in Belgrade in 1957. 
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"Topcider" in Turkish means "cannon valley". This is the place where the Turks began to cast cannons for attacking the fortified Belgrade in 1521. Prince Milos Obrenovic started arranging Topcider in...
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The word Tasmajdan comes from the Turkish words "tas" meaning "stone" and "majdan" meaning "mine". This isn't the stone quarry from which Belgrade was built, but it was certainly one of the more impor...
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One of the most unusual monuments-watchtowers located in Pioneer park was made using the stones from Kajmakcalan. This monument is a memory of a great victory which the Serbian armies won in the WWI a...
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Tower Gardos, also known as Sibinjanin Janko tower or as Millenium tower is one of the four Millenium towers constructed by the Hungarian authorities in all four sides of the world, in the most remote...
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The wealthy Zemun trader, Theodor Tosa Apostolovic, constructed a well next to the road to Bezanija. This place soon became a beloved picnicking spot for the denizens of Zemun who also greeted the 1st...
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In Sremska street, when you're going down from Albania to Zeleni Venac, you can see the oldest grafitti in Belgrade on the facade in the left side of one of the building. It says "Vote for Filip Filip...
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The largest number of spectators in the Red Star stadium happened on 23rd of April 1975 with "Ferencvaros" in a semi-final game for the winner of cup of cups. About 96,070 tickets were sold and it's e...
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The "Vaznesenjska" (Ascension) church was constructed as a town church in 1863 and still bears the original flag of Belgrade's city management. The red fabric flag has an icon of Heavenly Ascension o...
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Riunione palace in which the Jadran cinema was located was constructed around 1930. The building was constructed by the Adriatic insurance company from Trst, following a project made in Italy. There w...
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There used to exist a tram line with the number 1 which drove between Kalemegdan and Slavia. Over time its route was cut and extended and between the two World Wars there was even an additional line 1...
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During WWII a teacher from Belgrade, Miladin Zaric, prevented the Germans from demolishing the old Sava bridge on 2oth of October 1944. He did so by cutting the detonator wires while the Germans were...
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Muja the alligator came to Belgrade zoo as an adult animal on 12th of September 1937 and today he remains the only living resident of the Beo Zoo who survived WWII, during which the Zoo was completely...
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The "Djurmukane" building was constructed around 1835 during the reign of Knez Milos next to the river Sava. Back then it represented the old "gate" of Belgrade - the place where people entered and le...
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The National museum in Belgrade is the oldest museum institution of that type in our city. It was founded by Jovan Sterija Popovic on the 10th of May 1844 as "Muzeum serbski"  Before the National mus...
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The first bookstore in Belgrade was started by Gligorije Vozarovic in the corner of Kralja Petra and Kneza Sime Markovica streets during the reign of kneza Milosa Obrenovica.  Some time later the Lib...
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In the place of today's palace Albania there used to be a tavern of the same name which was constructed around the middle of the 19th century. The tavern was located in a great spot because the Moscow...
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The first marketplace in Belgrade originated in 1824. It was located near the then Turkish graveyard and later moved in front of Captain Misa's building, near the Students' square and the road to Stam...
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The first tavern in Europe began work in Dorcol in 1522. It only served black coffee which is why this type of establishment in Serbia got the name "kafana" (kafa = coffee), which in Turkish means 'a...
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The smaller War Island was significantly larger before WWII because there was much more sand there. When the construction of New Belgrade began in 1948 a massive amount of sand from the island was tra...
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The "Stari mlin" (Old mill) is one of the oldest mills in Europe, constructed in 1903 in Topciderska street (today called 15 Vojvode Misica boulevard). Back then this location was the industrial zone...
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