Boleč is a suburban settlement of Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. It is located in the municipality of Grocka

Grocka

Grocka is a suburban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Location :...

.

Location

Boleč is located 17 km east of the Belgrade, near the road of Smederevski put which connects Belgrade and Smederevo

Smederevo

Smederevo is a city and municipality in Serbia, on the right bank of the Danube, about 40 km downstream of the capital Belgrade. According to official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 107,528...

. One of the branches of the Bolečica

Bolecica

The Bolečica is a short river in north-central Serbia, a 12 km-long right tributary to the Danube. During its entire flow it runs through the suburban section of Belgrade and despite being short it flows through the three Belgrade's municipalities, next to the half dozen of suburbs of Belgrade ...

 river flows through the settlement and givs its name to it (its derived from Serbian words for bol (pain) and leči(ti) (to cure), so it means the water that heals the pain).

Population

For decades, population of Boleč was growing slowly but steadily. Since the mid 1970s however, the settlement (classified as the rural one, the village) is experiencing accelerated growth which continues until today, with large number of refugees from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo settling in this area. Originally south of the Smederevski put, as the settlement was growing it reached the road and connected to other surrounding villages (Ritopek

Ritopek

Ritopek is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Grocka, 20 km east of Belgrade and 19 km west of the municipal seat, on the right bank of the Danube, across the village of Ivanovo in Banat region of the Vojvodina...

, Vinča

Vinca

Vinca is a genus of six species in the family Apocynaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The English name periwinkle is shared with the related genus Catharanthus .-Description:Vinca plants are subshrubs or herbaceous, and have slender trailing stems 1–2 m long...

, Leštane

Leštane

Leštane is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka.- Location :Leštane is located 15 km east of Belgrade, originally further away from the major roads...

), so today it makes one built-up area all the way to Belgrade. Population of Boleč:

• 1921 - 890
• 1953 - 1,213
• 1971 - 1,476
• 1981 - 3,360
• 1991 - 4,659
• 2002 - 5,750

Economy

Until late 1970s and early 1980s economy of Boleč was based on agriculture, especially on fruit growing as the one of major Serbian fruit regions begins here and stretches to Smederevo, 35 km to the east. Since then, a boom in privately owned small companies boosted the economy and attracted new population to migrate in the settlement. The only large company is the branch of PKB, agriculturale company, with fruit plantations and huge refrigirators (PKB - Voćarske plantaže).