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New Belgrade (Serbian: Нови Београд / Novi Beograd, pronounced [nôʋiː beǒɡrad]) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. It was a planned city and now is the central business district of Serbia and South East Europe. Construction began in 1948 in a previously uninhabited area on the left bank of the Sava river, opposite old ...
Like in many other countries, municipalities (Serbian: општине, romanized: opštine) are the basic entities of local government in Serbia.The head of the municipality is the President of the municipality, while the executive power is held by the Municipal council, and legislative power by the Municipal assembly.
Three municipalities (Zemun, Novi Beograd, and Surčin) are on the northern bank of the Sava, in the Syrmia region, and the municipality of Palilula, spanning the Danube, is in both the Šumadija and Banat regions.
Bežanija - municipality abolished and annexed to the municipality of Novi Beograd in 1955. Population: 3,330 in 1953. Boljevci - now part of the municipality of Surčin (incorporated into Zemun 1965-2003). Population: 3,468 in 1953.
In March 2008, city government announced complete reconstruction of Block 1, including the old shopping complex "Fontana", which at the time of construction was unofficial center of Novi Beograd. Reconstruction should be finished by the end of 2008, and it should include building of a public underground garage, renovation of the children ...
It is a contrast to the rest of Novi Beograd, especially coming from the direction of Fontana or Studenski Grad through the Boulevard of Zoran Đinđić and Pariske komune streets (Paris Commune street). Kafana Tošin Bunar, founded in c1800, still exists though its present building is constructed in c1910.
Surčin is located in the eastern Syrmia region, 20km west of downtown Belgrade.It borders the municipalities of Zemun (north) and Novi Beograd (east). The western border of the municipality is the administrative border of the province of Vojvodina, while the Sava river forms the border to the municipalities of Čukarica (south-east) and Obrenovac (south).
Map of Urban local communities in Zemun municipality. Novi Grad is located in the central-west section of the urban Zemun. It stretches along the starting section of the new Belgrade-Novi Sad highway, from the Belgrade-Novi Sad railway on the south, where it borders the neighborhood of Kolonija Zmaj to the Ugrinovačka street on the north, where it borders the neighborhood of Zemun Bačka.