Ledine
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Ledine is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade
, the capital of Serbia
. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd
.
Ledine is the easternmost settlement in the municipality, formerly developed as a sort of an informal settlement outside the projected area of the city of Novi Beograd. Today it is urbanistically connected to the neighborhoods of Bežanija
and Dr Ivan Ribar
by the narrow urban strip along Vionogradska and Surčinska streets. The settlement itself is built between these two streets, both of which connect Belgrade and Surčin
and along which a continuous built-up area of Belgrade-Ledine-Surčin is being formed.
Ledine experiences all the problems of the non-planned neighborhoods of Belgrade, mostly concerning communal problems. The population of the settlement was 3,688 in 2002, and news reports about Ledine in 2006 estimated the population at 10,000.
As the settlement originated on barren meadows outside any urban area, it got the descriptive name ledine, Serbian for the heath
s. Ledine is also site of the Jewish memorial cemetery, commemorating killing of 350 Jews
by the German occupational forces in February 1942 in the nearby small valley. The memorial was restored in 2008.
The most famous inhabitant of Ledine is Strahinja "Kirby" Drakulic, famous a death metal/metalcore musician but is also involved in a lot of other genres.
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 Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd or New Belgrade is the most populous municipality that constitutes the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a planned city, built in 1947 on the left bank of the Sava river which was previously an uninhabited area, opposite of the old Belgrade...
.
Ledine is the easternmost settlement in the municipality, formerly developed as a sort of an informal settlement outside the projected area of the city of Novi Beograd. Today it is urbanistically connected to the neighborhoods of Bežanija
Bežanija
Bežanija is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.- Location :...
and Dr Ivan Ribar
Dr Ivan Ribar
Dr Ivan Ribar is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.- Location :...
by the narrow urban strip along Vionogradska and Surčinska streets. The settlement itself is built between these two streets, both of which connect Belgrade and Surčin
Surcin
Surčin is a neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is the youngest of Belgrade's 17 municipalities, as it split from the municipality of Zemun in 2003. Surčin municipality has 38,695 residents while Surčin town itself has 14,292...
and along which a continuous built-up area of Belgrade-Ledine-Surčin is being formed.
Ledine experiences all the problems of the non-planned neighborhoods of Belgrade, mostly concerning communal problems. The population of the settlement was 3,688 in 2002, and news reports about Ledine in 2006 estimated the population at 10,000.
As the settlement originated on barren meadows outside any urban area, it got the descriptive name ledine, Serbian for the heath
Heath
-Habitats:* Heath or heathland, low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species* Heaths in the British National Vegetation Classification system...
s. Ledine is also site of the Jewish memorial cemetery, commemorating killing of 350 Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
by the German occupational forces in February 1942 in the nearby small valley. The memorial was restored in 2008.
The most famous inhabitant of Ledine is Strahinja "Kirby" Drakulic, famous a death metal/metalcore musician but is also involved in a lot of other genres.