Beli Potok (Belgrade)

Beli Potok
Бели Поток
Town
View of the Beli Potok from the Avala tower.
Beli Potok
Coordinates: 44°42′22″N 20°31′09″E / 44.70611°N 20.51917°E / 44.70611; 20.51917Coordinates: 44°42′22″N 20°31′09″E / 44.70611°N 20.51917°E / 44.70611; 20.51917
Country Serbia
District City of Belgrade
Municipality Voždovac
Population (2011 census)[1]
 • Town 3,621
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 11223
Area code +381 011
Car plates BG

Beli Potok (Serbian Cyrillic: Бели Поток) is a small town and a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Voždovac.

Location

Beli Potok is located in on the northern slope of the Avala mountain, near the crossroads of the roads of Avalski put, which connects Belgrade with the Avala, and Kružni put, tha major road connecting the settlements on the southern outskirts of Belgrade. To the south, Beli Potok extends in the direction of the small town of Pinosava, to the east in the direction of Bubanj Potok and to the north it makes one continuous built-up area with the urban neighborhood of Selo Rakovica, but Beli Potok is administratively classified as a separate settlement and not part of the Belgrade City proper (uža teritorija grada).

Population

Beli Potok is statistically classified as an urban settlement (town). The population has been steadily declining from 1970s to 1990s, but with the large influx of refugees from the Yugoslav Wars after 1991, the population began to grow again. Population of Beli Potok according to the official censuses of population:

  • 1921: 1,171
  • 1971: 3,237
  • 1981: 3,150
  • 1991: 2,997
  • 2002: 3,417
  • 2011: 3,621

Characteristics

Beli Potok is the birthplace of Vasa Čarapić (1770–1806), one of the main army leaders from the First Serbian Uprising, and the main street in the town bears his name. In the field west of Beli Potok is the institute for the development of water resources Jaroslav Černi. Some of the other well known features in the town are the famed motel Hiljadu ruža and kafana Kumbara. A railway also passes through the town, going through the tunnel constructed under the north-western corner of the settlement. The name, beli potok, is descriptive, meaning "white creek" in Serbian.

Future

In September 2007 an official motion was started by the municipality of Voždovac to create new sub-Avalan municipality (Avalski Venac), which would include the settlements of Ripanj, Beli Potok, Pinosava and Zuce from Voždovac, Vrčin from the municipality of Grocka and Resnik from the municipality of Rakovica. In October 2007 municipal assembly began construction of the building in central Beli Potok which would serve as an outer representation of the assembly and the future municipal seat if new municipality is to be created.[2][3]

See also

References

  • Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
  • Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
  1. ↑ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  2. ↑ Politika, Oct 20, 2007, p.27
  3. ↑ Večernje Novosti, Oct 23, 2007, p.17
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