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Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia from its creation to its dissolution. [note 1] In a fatally strategic position, the city has been battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times, being bombed five times and besieged many times. [14] Being Serbia's primate city, Belgrade has special administrative status within Serbia. [15]
Belgrade has had many names through history, and in nearly all languages the name translates as "the white city" or similar. Serbian name Beograd is a compound of beo ("white, light") and grad ("town, city"), and etymologically corresponds to several other city names spread throughout the Slavdom: Belgorod, Białogard, Biograd etc.
Historical period Events Roman Empire: 6 CE: Aulus Caecina Severus becomes the first governor of Moesia. [3] Belgrade was known as Singidunum at this time, [4] and Zemun was known as Taurunum and was part of Pannonia.
Belgrade Fortress is located on top of the 125.5 metres (412 ft) high [9] ending ridge of the Šumadija geological bar. The sandbank stretches at least from the city's Tašmajdan section, originating from the Miocene period, and the oldest stages of the ancient Pannonian Sea. [10]
It was the first time in history that these 2 cities, one against another Belgrade and Zemun, have had a chance to unite. This occurred in 1929 and the combined population was 240,000 people; a decade later it reached 350,000 and by the outbreak of World War II Belgrade had 400,000 people.
Architecture of Belgrade is the architecture and styles developed in Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade has wildly varying architecture , from the centre of Zemun , typical of a Central European town, [ 1 ] to the more modern architecture and spacious layout of New Belgrade .
Other notable Belgrade rock acts include Riblja Čorba, Bajaga i Instruktori and others [citation needed]. During the 1990s the city was the main center (in the former Yugoslavia ) of a musical style known as turbofolk [ citation needed ] .
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