Stari košutnjak
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Stari košutnjak
Стари Кошутњак | |
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  Stari košutnjak Location within Belgrade | |
| Coordinates: 44°45′24″N 20°27′05″E / 44.75667°N 20.45139°E | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Region | Belgrade |
| Municipality | Rakovica |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +381(0)11 |
| Car plates | BG |
Stari Košutnjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Кошутњак) is a neighborhood located in Rakovica, municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Rakovica municipality Kanarevo brdo and Miljakovac,[1] and municipalities of Čukarica, Savski venac and Voždovac.
History
[edit]The neighborhood's original name was the Railway colony (Serbian: Železnička kolonija). At the beginning of the 1920s, the Ministry of Railroad started building a neighborhood for their workers.[2] Even today, the neighborhood is filled with old trains and their parts, so its primary purpose still remains in a way.[3]
Geography
[edit]It is located in the southern part of the municipality, at its border with the municipality Savski venac. Around the neighborhood, there are 4 forests: Košutnjak, White Palace forest, Banjica forest, and Miljakovac forest.[1] River Topčiderka flows through the whole neighborhood. It is 8 kilometers from the center of Belgrade (~5 miles). Close to this neighborhood is the park Topčider and a forest with a similar name – Košutnjak.[4] And in its very close vicinity is also the luxurious neighborhood Dedinje, which connects the neighborhood to Slavija, a part of Belgrade's center with the most traffic.[5]
Sources
[edit]- ^ a b "Miljakovac". Archived from the original on 2020-02-24.
- ^ "Pruga uskog koloseka Užice-Šargan-Vardište - FORUM LJUBITELJA ŽELEZNICA". www.zeleznice.in.rs. Archived from the original on 2018-04-17.
- ^ "BEOGRADSKO GROBLJE VAGONA: Tu svraćaju beskućnici i pijani klinci, a vreme je stalo! (FOTO)". 29 January 2017.
- ^ "S KOJIM SE PREDZNANJEM IDE NA TOPČIDER I KOŠUTNJAK? O stvarnom značenju ovih naziva i o javnim tajnama koje čuvaju (FOTO)". 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Treći vek Rakovice".
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