Lebane
Lebane
Лебане (Serbian) | |
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Town and municipality | |
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UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 16230 |
Area code | +381(0)16 |
Car plates | LB |
Website | www |
Lebane (Serbian Cyrillic: Лебане) is a town and municipality located in Jablanica District of southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 10,062 inhabitants, while the municipality has 20,000 inhabitants.
Geography
The town is located at the
History
- Prehistory and Medieval times
The favorable location and the richness of nature made Jablanica valley important place since the earliest times. Traffic affordable and fertile, Leskovac valley has provided favorable conditions for the settlement of population. Archaeological findings, of which the most important are
First mention of Lebane as Hlebane dates back to 1512.
- After the liberation from the Ottomans
Lebane is formed as a village of the same name after the liberation in 1878. Visiting Serbia in 1880s, M. Rakic writes about it as a "big village populated by Serbs, in a valley, on the river Jablanica, on its left bank." Only when Lebane got the role of Jablanica district headquarters, it began to gradually develop in a direction of a small town.
The core of this small town was a series of houses along the Jablanica which is 45m wide here (as is even now); at the end of this series are the buildings of the Court and Municipality. The main feature of this town were two huge cottonwood trees with a volume of not less than 10 m and three huge walnut tree on the right bank of the river, near the pedestrian bridge. One of these cottonwoods survived as one of the most recognizable Lebane's landmarks, in front of the Justiniana - Caričin Grad hotel, until 2008, when it was hit by a lightning and had to be removed.
Lebane has always been a Christian village with about forty houses scattered on the hill near the river. In 1900 it had 67 houses with 460 inhabitants.
- World War 1 and interwar period
During
and managed to liberate large part of Southern Serbia.From 1929 to 1941, Lebane was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The emergence and development of the regional market in the period between the two world wars did not significantly encourage Lebane's development, so in the inter-war period it was still a rural town (eopolis) with about 1500 inhabitants. But its local importance was recognized by making it a center of Jablanica srez (corresponding to today's municipalities of Lebane, Medveđa and Bojnik).
- Modern times
However, after
After this tragic event, with financial help, Lebane begins to industrialize faster, and the process of industrialization has caused more versatile and faster development of the city.
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1948 | 26,290 | — |
1953 | 28,062 | +1.31% |
1961 | 27,579 | −0.22% |
1971 | 28,228 | +0.23% |
1981 | 27,836 | −0.14% |
1991 | 27,068 | −0.28% |
2002 | 24,918 | −0.75% |
2011 | 22,000 | −1.37% |
Source: [4] |
According to the 2011 census, the municipality has 22,000 inhabitants.
Ethnic groups
The ethnic composition of the municipality:
Ethnic group | Population | % |
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Serbs | 20,398 | 92.72% |
Romani | 1,251 | 5.69% |
Montenegrins | 20 | 0.09% |
Macedonians | 16 | 0.07% |
Gorani | 7 | 0.03% |
Yugoslavs | 4 | 0.02% |
Others | 304 | 1.38% |
Total | 22,000 |
Economy
The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[5]
Activity | Total |
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Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 49 |
Mining and quarrying | - |
Manufacturing | 634 |
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 24 |
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 36 |
Construction | 98 |
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 415 |
Transportation and storage | 115 |
Accommodation and food services | 92 |
Information and communication | 9 |
Financial and insurance activities | 12 |
Real estate activities | 1 |
Professional, scientific and technical activities | 100 |
Administrative and support service activities | 36 |
Public administration and defense; compulsory social security | 272 |
Education | 359 |
Human health and social work activities | 224 |
Arts, entertainment and recreation | 40 |
Other service activities | 57 |
Individual agricultural workers | 376 |
Total | 2,951 |
Features
The most significant historical monument in the vicinity of the town and within the boundaries of the municipality is the 6th century AD late
In the municipality of Lebane there is ongoing discussion for the new Lebane coat of arms.
Gallery
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Cultural Center Radan
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Orthodox Church in Lebane
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Ruins of Justiniana Prima
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Imperial Town - Ruins of Justiniana Prima
See also
References
- ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ "Насеља општине Лебане" (pdf). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
- ^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "MUNICIPALITIES AND REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, 2019" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 25 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
External links
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