Lučani is a town and municipality located in the Dragačevo region within the Moravica District

Moravica District

The Moravica District is located in the central parts of Serbia. It has a population of 212,149...

 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...

 (Western Serbia). The population of the town is 3,425, while population of the municipality was 20,855.

Perhaps the most famous village in the municipality is Guča

Guca

Guča is a small town in Serbia. It is situated in the Lučani municipality, Moravica District. The population of the town is 2,022 people. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade...

, where the annual trumpet festival

Guca trumpet festival

The Guča trumpet festival, also known as the Dragačevo Assembly , is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak , in the Dragačevo region of western Serbia. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade....

 is held.

Demographics

In the town of Lučani there are 3,416 adult inhabitants, while the average age of the population is 38,3 years (37,8 with men and 38,7 with women). There are 1,474 homes in the town and the average number of people living together is 2,92.

The town is largely inhabited by Serbs

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 (according to a census from 2002), and in the last few years, a sharp rise in the number of inhabitants was noted.

<>>Graph showing the Lučani population change in the 20th Century

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Notable people

• Radmila Bakočević
  Radmila Bakocevic
  Radmila Bakočević , is a Serbian operatic soprano who had a major international opera career that began in 1955 and ended upon her retirement from the stage in 1982...
  
   opera singer
• Boban Janković
  Boban Jankovic
  Slobodan "Boban" Janković was a Serbian professional basketball player.At the age of 7, he moved to capital Belgrade....
  
   late Serbian basketball player
• Radojica Vasić
  Radojica Vasić
  Radojica Vasić is a Serbian footballer who plays for Serbian First League club FK Mladost Lučani....
  
   football player
• Milan Bojović
  Milan Bojović
  Milan Bojović is a Serbian football striker currently playing in Serbian SuperLiga club Vojvodina....
  
   football player
• Ratko Dostanić
  Ratko Dostanic
  Ratko Dostanić is a Serbian football coach and former player.-Playing career:Ratko Dostanić started his youth career as a member of FK Partizan....
  
   football coach
• Željko Tanasković
  Željko Tanaskovic
  Željko Tanasković is a Serbian volleyball player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1996 Summer Olympics...
  
   olympic medalist, retired volleyball player

See also

• Guča trumpet festival
  Guca trumpet festival
  The Guča trumpet festival, also known as the Dragačevo Assembly , is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak , in the Dragačevo region of western Serbia. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade....