Cvetkova Pijaca or colloquially Cvetko (Serbian

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 Cyrillic: Цветкова пијаца) is an open green market and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade

Belgrade

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, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zvezdara

Zvezdara

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.

Location

Cvetko is located along the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra

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, in the field south of Zvezdara hill, in the easternmost section of the former Vračar

Vracar

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 area (modern local community which covers the area of Cvetko is called Vračarsko polje, Vračar field). It is 3,5 kilometers south-east of downtown Belgrade (Terazije

Terazije

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). It is centered around the green market and extends into the neighborhood of Konjarnik

Konjarnik

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 on the south and Lion

Lion, Belgrade

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 on the west.

History & characteristics

In the 1930s, area of modern Cvetkova pijaca was the eastern edge of the city. Belgrade's entrepreneur Cvetko Jovanović owned kafana

Kafana

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 and neighboring lots, so the area gradually became known as Cvetkova mehana. Today, neighborhood is dominated by the open green market, Cvetkova pijaca (Serbian for Cvetko's market), one of major ones in Belgrade. After World War I

World War I

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, the section near Olimp was settled by the Kalmyks from the shores of the Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea

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, which fled Imperial Russia after the October Revolution

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 in 1917. In Kozarčeva street, they built Buddhist temple, a Mongolia

Mongolia

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n-type pagoda

Pagoda

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 in 1929, which was leveled to the ground in 1944, during German occupation of Belgrade.

Other important nearby features are the sports center "Zvezdara" (popularly called Olimp, Olympus

Mount Olympus

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) and the theater "Zvezdara teatar". The population of the neighborhood was 4,843 by the 2002 census.