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    The Slavic name Beligrad was first recorded in 878 year.

    Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is the only capital lying on the banks of two big rivers. It was built on the Sava and the Danube confluence. It has been a settlement for about 7000 years. Even in the prehistoric times there were settlements in this area. The first known fortification was built by the Celts in the 3rd century B.C. (Singidunum) and then the Romans took over. From the 6th century A.D. Belgrade is populated by the Slavic people, who gave the town its present name. By the 13th century, Belgrade was fought over by the Hungarians, Bulgarians, Byzantines, until a Serbian king Dragutin took it over. When emperor Dušan died, the Hungarians took Belgrade, then in 1405 Despot Stefan Lazarević make it his capital. Today we have his words recorded, “Upon arrival, I found the most beautiful place from the time immemorial, the great city of Belgrade, that as a victim of circumstances was destroyed and abandoned, and I built it and dedicated it to the Holy Mother of God”. Then once again the Hungarians took over the town, then the Turks came, calling it “A home to religious wars”. After the First Serbian Uprise, in 1806, it was returned to Serbia and in 1867, when the last Turkish garrison departed, Belgrade was liberated. As the capital of the Serbian Kingdom, during the First World War, it was occupied by the Germans, as was the case in the Second World War. Belgrade had been the capital of the state of the South Slavs, Yugoslavia, from 1918 when the SCS Kingdom had been founded until 1991 when the state broke apart.

    The world encyclopedias record that Belgrade has been the city most frequently destroyed and renewed, the city with the greatest number of significant battles fought in and for it: even 115 ones! Belgrade is the only European capital that suffered bombardment after the Second World war: it was bombarded by the NATO aviation from March till June 1999.

    Today Belgrade has a population of over 1.5 million and is the seat of Serbian industry, culture and education, a significant center of South-East Europe. The capital of Serbia, it is renown for its hospitality, visited by numerous tourists from both the neighbouring countries and the rest of Europe, as well as from all over the world. The Belgrade Fortress situated on the confluence of the Sava and the Danube – Kalemegdan, built and extended for the last two millennia, today is a tourist attraction that no visitor can fail to see.

    Singidun (on) – the Celtic name of the town

    Singidunum – Romanised Celtic name of Beograd

    Beograd – Slavic name; first recorded in 878. in a letter of the Pope John VIII to the Bulgarian Tsar Boris

    Biograd on the Danube – the name used in Montenegro, Dalmatia

    Alba Graeca – Latinised name

    Alba Bulgarica – Latinised name in the period of Bulgarian rule

    Fehérvár – Hungarian name

    Weißenburg – German name

    Castelbianco – Italian name

    Nandoralba – the name used in mediaeval Hungary by the 14th century

    Nándorfehérvár – used in mediaeval Hungary

    Landorfehérvár – used in mediaeval Hungary

    Veligradon – Byzantine name, Veligradi

    Βελιγράδι – Greek name

    Dar Ul Jihad – Ottoman name, meaning the House of War

    Belgrat – Turkish name

    Prinz Eugen Stadt – name used by the Nazis


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    Songs about Belgrade

    Old style:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQz4RpucN4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVLnxIVgaPA

    Modern style:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRJTGGnTOUk

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    Nice city.

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    Belgrade's Sea - Ada Ciganlija

    Ada Ciganlija, colloquially shortened to Ada, is a river island that has artificially been turned into a peninsula, located in the Sava River's course through central Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The name can also refer to the adjoining artificial Lake Sava and its beach. To take advantage of its central location, over the past few decades, it was turned into an immensely popular recreational zone, most notable for its beaches and sports facilities, which, during summer seasons, can have over 100,000 visitors daily and up to 300,000 visitors over the weekend. Owing to this popularity, Ada Ciganlija has been commonly nicknamed "More Beograda" ("Belgrade's Sea").










    Tourists about Ada



    Bungee jumping

    Bungee jumping is an extreme and exotic discipline that falls into the field of adventure tourism. On Ada Ciganlija, near the round bath, there is one of the most beautiful, but also one of the highest bungee jumping centers in the world, whose crane height is 55 meters. Jumps are carried out with the assistance from the well-experienced bungee team, under the supervision of trained experts with world recognized certificates. The jumping season lasts from May to September.



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    some random photos of belgrade





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    The city is called Bělehrad in Czech and Belehrad in Slovak
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    ending "L" has transformed into "O" in serbo-croatian. So BEO=BEL. rest of Slavs don't have this transformation :
    SOKOL -> SOKO
    STOL -> STO
    BEL -> BEO
    Ja sam igral -> ja sam igrao
    etc

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    ending "L" has transformed into "O" in serbo-croatian. So BEO=BEL. rest of Slavs don't have this transformation :
    SOKOL -> SOKO
    STOL -> STO
    BEL -> BEO
    Ja sam igral -> ja sam igrao
    etc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moje ime View Post
    Today Belgrade has a population of over 1.5 million and is the seat of Serbian industry, culture and education, a significant center of South-East Europe. The capital of Serbia, it is renown for its hospitality, visited by numerous tourists from both the neighbouring countries and the rest of Europe, as well as from all over the world.
    In Bulgaria it's popular with plebs from the western part of the country. They go there for the cheap booze and bbq, they also like the trashy turbofolk scene and that smoking is legal in bars and restaurants.
    I think for an European city of this size, it's pretty underdeveloped. The tech sector is poor, the retail is bad and it's like the only European capital that has over a million residents and doesn't have a metro system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulgar View Post
    In Bulgaria it's popular with plebs from the western part of the country. They go there for the cheap booze and bbq, they also like the trashy turbofolk scene and that smoking is legal in bars and restaurants.
    I think for an European city of this size, it's pretty underdeveloped. The tech sector is poor, the retail is bad and it's like the only European capital that has over a million residents and doesn't have a metro system.

    Unfortunately yes, it doesn't have a real metro system yet but it has a basic for it. It is a railway that connects suburbs with center called "Beovoz".


    (Don't troll, you can always open thread about Sofia.)










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