Garevo
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Garevo is a small village in 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...

 close to Veliko Gradiste
Veliko Gradište
Veliko Gradište is a town and municipality located in Serbia, in north-east Serbia , on the right bank of the Danube river and left bank of the Pek river...

. There are around 70 houses in Garevo, and the village has a very small population. Most of the population of Garevo maintains alternate residence in Austria
Austria
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, Germany
Germany
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, or France
France
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 and live in Garevo only for the summer.
The Garevo was there for centuries, in the start it was named Seliste, but after the terrible floods the citizens have moved a village to the east. Many of men of Garevo has been in various wars, some were soldiers, some were victims. There are also 11 victims of Jasenovac
Jasenovac
Jasenovac is a village and a municipality in Croatian Slavonia, in the southern part of the Sisak-Moslavina county at the confluence of the river Una into Sava.The name means "ash tree" or "ash forest" in Croatian, the area being ringed by such a forest....

from Garevo. Some of the notable residents are a poet Rasa Peric or current resident and a first class bohemian Misa the "Brzi"(quick one). Some of the human tragedies were written right here in Garevo. Such as a tragic suicide of local football player who could not take the fact that his wife left him and took his child with her. There is a big monument dedicated to him. Also there is a lot of legends about Garevo's history, but all that sources are not confirmed.
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