Požarevac

Coordinates: 44°37′N 21°11′E / 44.617°N 21.183°E / 44.617; 21.183
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Požarevac
Пожаревац (Serbian)
City
City of Požarevac
Град Пожаревац
From top: City Hall, Regional History Museum, Eco Home,
Miloš Obrenović statue in the city park, Mausoleum and cemetery in Viminacium
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
12000
Area code+381(0)12
Car platesPO
Websitewww.pozarevac.rs

Požarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац, pronounced [pǒʒarevats]) is a city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čačalica (208m). As of 2022, the city has a population of 51,271 while the city administrative area has 68,648 inhabitants.

Name

In Serbian, the city is known as Požarevac (Пожаревац), in Romanian as Pojarevăț or Podu Lung, in Turkish as Pasarofça, in German as Passarowitz, and in Hungarian as Pozsarevác.

The name means "fire-town" in Serbian (In this case, the word "fire" is used in the sense of a disaster).

History

Ancient times

In ancient times, the area was inhabited by

Roman conquest in the first century BC.[citation needed
]

In 435, the city of Margus, under the

Attila and Bleda. [citation needed
]

One pretext for the Hun invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire in 442 was that the Bishop of Margus had crossed the Danube to ransack and desecrate the royal Hun graves on the north bank of the Danube. When the Romans discussed handing over the Bishop, he slipped away and betrayed the city to the Huns, who then sacked the city and went on to invade as far as the gates of Constantinople itself. [citation needed]

After the fall of the

Avar Khaganate before their demolition by Charlemagne. The area was subsequently included into the Bulgarian Empire and was alternately ruled by the Bulgarian Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary
until the 13th century.

In the 13th century, the area was ruled by independent local Slavic-Bulgarian rulers,

Drman and Kudelin. It was subsequently included into the Kingdom of Syrmia, ruled by Serbian king Stefan Dragutin and into the Kingdom of Serbia and Serbian Empire ruled by Stefan Dušan
.

Archaeology

A Bronze Age figurine "The Idol of Kličevac" was found in a grave in the village of Kličevac. It was destroyed during World War I.[3]

The

National Museum in Belgrade
and Požarevac has some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 are of gold and silver. Among them are many invaluable rarities.

In June 2008, a Triballian (

urns). These date from the first millennium BC.[4]

Modern city

Miloš Obrenović
monument, 1898.
Reservist mobilization in Požarevac, 1914.

The modern town of Požarevac was first mentioned in the 14th century under the name Puporače[5][dubious – discuss]; it first being mentioned under its present-day name in 1476.[6] The town became part of Moravian Serbia and Serbian Despotate, until the Ottoman conquest in 1459. During Ottoman administration, it was part of the Sanjak of Smederevo. It was occupied by Austrian Empire between 1688 and 1690.

In 1718, Požarevac was the site of the signing of the

Miloš Obrenović with the first regular state court in Serbia being established here in 1821. Since 1878, Požarevac became part of the independent Principality of Serbia and since 1882 as part of the Kingdom of Serbia
.

Following the end of the First World War in 1918, the town was part of the

Republic of Serbia
.

Municipalities and settlements

The City of Požarevac includes two

city municipalities
:

These include the following settlements:

In the 2008 reform of Serbian local government, Požarevac received the status of a city and the town of Kostolac became the seat of the second city municipality. Požarevac is the smallest Serbian city consisting of two municipalities.

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
190012,980—    
190512,162−6.3%
191013,613+11.9%
192110,604−22.1%
193114,042+32.4%
194116,300+16.1%
194815,474−5.1%
195318,529+19.7%
196124,269+31.0%
197132,828+35.3%
198139,735+21.0%
199141,160+3.6%
200241,736+1.4%
201144,183+5.9%
Data for pre-1948 censuses not cited
Source: [2]

As of 2011, the city of Požarevac has a total population of 75,334 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

The ethnic composition of the municipal area of the city of Požarevac:[8]

Ethnic group Population %
Serbs 66,801 88.67%
Romani 3,868 5.13%
Romanians
 177 0.23%
Macedonians 168 0.22%
Montenegrins 160 0.21%
Croats 109 0.14%
Romanians
 91 0.12%
Yugoslavs 71 0.09%
Hungarians
 56 0.07%
Muslims
 42 0.06%
Slovenians
 38 0.05%
Bulgarians
 35 0.05%
Others 3,718 4.94%
Total 75,334

Economy

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[9]

Activity Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 305
Mining and quarrying 46
Manufacturing 3,048
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 3,315
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities 340
Construction 889
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 3,117
Transportation and storage 1,206
Accommodation and food services 628
Information and communication 231
Financial and insurance activities 318
Real estate activities 23
Professional, scientific and technical activities 461
Administrative and support service activities 1,670
Public administration and defense; compulsory social security 1,824
Education 1,236
Human health and social work activities 2,062
Arts, entertainment and recreation 318
Other service activities 396
Individual agricultural workers 753
Total 22,187

Politics

Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2020 local elections:

  • Serbian Progressive Party (49)
  • Socialist Party of Serbia (13)
  • The Souverainists (4)
  • Vlach Party Bridge (2)

Education

  • Požarevac Gymnasium (Požarevačka gimnazija), a college-preparatory high school
  • Technical College (Visoka tehnička škola strukovnih studija u Požarevcu)[10]
  • Polytechnic school (Politehnička Škola Požarevac), a collage-preparatory high school [11]

People associated with Požarevac

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Serbia

Twin towns – sister cities

Požarevac is

twinned
with:

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4
    . Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  3. ^ Garasanin, Draga (1972). "Bronze Age in Serbia". Projekat Rastko. Translated by Stefanovic, M. R. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  4. ^ Mirković, S. (9 June 2008). "Iskopane urne Tribala". Jaša Tomić (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
  5. ^ "Požarevac, Kostolac, Malo Crniće, Petrovac". Serbia.travel. National Tourism Organisation of Serbia. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Istorijat". Pozarevac.rs (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  7. ^ Ingrao, Samardžić & Pešalj 2011.
  8. ISBN 978-86-6161-025-7
    .
  9. ^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (2019). Municipalities and Regions of the Republic of Serbia, 2019 (PDF). Belgrade: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 28 December 2019 – via stat.gov.rs.
  10. ^ Official website
  11. ^ Official website
  12. ^ Vajner, M. (2 April 2015). "Gimnazijalci iz Janjine u poseti Požarevcu". Boom93 (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  13. ^ Ivić, Dragi (Драги Ивић) (16 May 2013). "Volokolamski pravac" Волоколамски правац. Urban Book Circle (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 June 2022.

Sources

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