Kruševac
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Kruševac Крушевац |
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Location of Kruševac within Serbia | |||
Coordinates: | |||
Country | Serbia | ||
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District | Rasina | ||
Settlements | 101 | ||
Government | |||
- Mayor | Dragan Azdejković (DSS) | ||
Area [1] | |||
- Municipality | 854 km2 (329.7 sq mi) | ||
Population (2002 census)[2] | |||
- Total | 75,256 | ||
- Municipality | 133.732 | ||
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
- Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
Postal code | 37000 | ||
Area code | +381 37 | ||
Car plates | KŠ | ||
Website | http://www.krusevac.org.rs |
Kruševac (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушевац, listen (help·info)) is a city and a municipality located in Serbia at 43.58° North, 21.32° East. According to the 2002 census it had a population of 75,256 (municipality: 133,732). Kruševac is the administrative center of the Rasina District of Serbia.
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[edit] History and monuments
Kruševac was founded in 1371. [3] It was in Kruševac that the prominent Serbian noble, Lazar, assembled a Serb army to march against the Turks, at Kosovo, in 1389. The site of his palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the tower of Queen Milica, whither, according to legend, tidings of the defeat were brought to her by crows from the battlefield. Within the enclosure stands a church, dating from the same time, with beautiful rose windows and with imperial peacocks, dragons and eagles sculptured on the walls. Several old Turkish houses were left at the beginning of the 20th century, besides an old Turkish fountain and bath.
There is also a large monument dedicated to the Battle of Kosovo (Бој на Косову, Boj na Kosovu). As a part of the monument there is a statue of the famous Serbian poet and "gusle" player Filip Višnjić.
[edit] Municipality
Municipality of Kruševac has 101 settlements of which only the municipality center Kruševac is urban.
List of the settlements in the municipality:
[edit] Demographics (2002 census)
Ethnic group | Population | ||||||||
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Serbs | 127,077 | ||||||||
Montenegrins | 572 | ||||||||
Roma | 1,746 | ||||||||
Yugoslavs | 229 | ||||||||
Macedonians | 201 | ||||||||
Croats | 117 | ||||||||
Others | 1,426 | ||||||||
Total | 131,368 | ||||||||
[edit] Politics
Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2008 local elections[4]:
Party | Seats |
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DS and SPO | 20 |
SRS | 18 |
DSS | 15 |
SPS and PUPS | 7 |
JS | 5 |
G17 Plus | 5 |
[edit] Famous residents
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja
- Predrag Jovanović
- Radmila Savićević
- Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković
- Radmila Živković
- Taško Načić
- Radoš Bajić
- Milija Vuković
- Vojin Ćetković
- Nataša Šolak
- Nebojša Bradić
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Stanislav Binički
- Petar Miladinović
- Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović
- Milan Milovanović
- Predrag Vesić
- Marko Živić
- Dejan Miletić
- Goran Grbović
- Miroslav Mišković
- Stojan Protić
[edit] Sister cities
- See also: Town twinning
- Pistoia, Italy (1966)
- Trogir, Croatia (1972)
- Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1972)
- Corfu, Greece (1985)
- Szentendre, Hungary (1990)
- Qiryat Gat, Israel (1990)
- Rimnicu Vilcea, Romania (2003)
Other forms of cooperation and city friendship similar to the twin/sister city programmes:
- Volgograd, Russia (1999)
- Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (2000)
- Ryazan, Russia (2000)
- Žalec, Slovenia (2006)
- Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006)
[edit] References
- ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. http://webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu/axd/Zip/OG2006webE.zip.
- ^ (in Serbian)Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2003. ISBN 86-84443-00-09.
- ^ СО Крушевац, званична презентација
- ^ | Politicke stranke u lokalnom parlamentu
[edit] Gallery
[edit] External links
- Official website
- City newspaper
- Independent web portal
- Krusevac online
- Kruševac mali oglasi (Serbian)
[edit] See also
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