Cacak
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Čačak is a city in central Serbia
. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District
of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district. The population of the city is 70,148, by 2011 census.
Princely tombs of Greco-Illyrian type (Glasinac culture) were found in two mounds of Atenica
with Ionia
n glass, glass-paste, amber bead depicting swan, Attic
plaque of Wild boar, dating to the late 6th century BC. More ornithomorphic fibulae of Bronze swans was found in Mojsinje
.
Prehistoric tumuli have been unearthed in Mrčajevci.
The church in the center of Čačak was built in the 12th century by Stephen Nemanja's brother, Stracimir. It was made a mosque, and then a church back again in the 19th century.
with: Katerini
, Greece
Turčianske Teplice
, Slovakia
Filippoi
, Greece
Han Pijesak
, Republika Srpska
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bratunac
, Republika Srpska
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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 the administrative center of 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. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district. The population of the city is 70,148, by 2011 census.
Municipality
The Municipality of Čačak includes the following settlements:
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Kulinovci Kulinovci is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 413 people.... Lipnica Lipnica may refer to:* Lipnica, Środa Śląska County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland* Lipnica, Wołów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland* Lipnica, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland... Međuvršje Međuvršje is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 82 people.... Milićevci Milićevci is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 944 people.... Miokovci Miokovci is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1063 people.... Mojsinje Mojsinje is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 869 people.... Mršinci Mršinci is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1359 people.... Ovčar Banja Ovčar Banja is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 168 people.-References:... Ostra (Čačak) Ostra is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1091 people.... Pakovraće Pakovraće is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 483 people.-References:... Parmenac Parmenac is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 240 people.... Petnica Petnica is a small village near Valjevo, Serbia. According to the census of 2002, there were 614 inhabitants .-History:Petnica was founded at the beginning of the 15th century... Preljina Preljina is a small town in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 1,801 people.-References:... Premeća Premeća is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 320 people.... Pridvorica, Cacak Pridvorica is a village in Serbia situated in the municipality of Čačak and the district of Moravica. In 2002, it had 208 inhabitants, all Serbs.In 1948, the village had 236 inhabitants, in 1981 140 and, in 1991, 243.... Prijevor Prijevor my refer to:* Prijevor, Mljet, group of villages in Mljet* Prijevor, Dubrovnik, village in Dubrovnik* Prijevor, Čačak, village in Čačak* Prijevor, Herceg Novi, village in Herceg Novi... Prislonica Prislonica is a small town in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 1591 people.... Rajac (Čačak) Rajac is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 355 people.... Rakova (Čačak) Rakova, Serbia is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 778 people.... Riđage Riđage is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 230 people.... Rošci Rošci is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 489 people.-References:... Slatina (Čačak) Slatina is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 629 people.-References:... Sokolići Sokolići is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 182 people.... Stančići Stančići is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 348 people.... Trbušani Trbušani is a small town in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 1830 people.-References:... Trnava Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center... |
Prehistoric
The region has several archaeological sites, dating from prehistory to present, the oldest from the 15th century BC.Princely tombs of Greco-Illyrian type (Glasinac culture) were found in two mounds of Atenica
Atenica
Atenica is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 619 people....
with Ionia
Ionia
Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...
n glass, glass-paste, amber bead depicting swan, Attic
Attic
An attic is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building . Attic is generally the American/Canadian reference to it...
plaque of Wild boar, dating to the late 6th century BC. More ornithomorphic fibulae of Bronze swans was found in Mojsinje
Mojsinje
Mojsinje is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 869 people....
.
Prehistoric tumuli have been unearthed in Mrčajevci.
Roman era
In the village of Jelica-Gradina, a Roman compound (fort) with a martyrium and necropolis has been excavated, with three churches, one of which produced a pentanummion for Justinian 526-537, also believed to have founded the fort in the 530s. The presence of burnt layers conclude that the settlement ended in violence, in the same region in the 6th century, 4 forts were built.Middle Ages-present
Čačak has two years on its coat of arms. First being 1408, when the city is first recorded of (as Gradac), and the second is 1815, the year Second Serbian Uprising began and the battle of Ljubic hill was fought. This battle is famous for heroic victory of the rebels who defeated Ottoman army numbering 60,000 men, twice more than the Serbs.The church in the center of Čačak was built in the 12th century by Stephen Nemanja's brother, Stracimir. It was made a mosque, and then a church back again in the 19th century.
Demographics
Ethnic composition of the municipality (2002 census):| Ethnic group | Population |
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| 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... |
138,208 |
| Montenegrins Montenegrins of Serbia The Montenegrins of Serbia are a national minority in the republic. Serbia's 2002 Census puts Serbia's Montenegrin population at 69,049. In Central Serbia, there are 33,536, and in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, there are 35,513... |
563 |
| Roma | 383 |
| Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora... |
299 |
| Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness... |
127 |
| Croats Croats Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have... |
109 |
| Others | 1,383 |
| Total | 141,072 |
Famous natives and residents
- Boban DmitrovićBoban DmitrovićBoban Dmitrović is a Serbian footballer. He currently plays for FK Sloga Kraljevo in the Serbian First League .-Club career:...
, football player - Bora Đorđević, rock musician
- Branko V. Radičević, poet
- Darko LazovićDarko LazovicDarko Lazović is a Serbian footballer. He currently plays for Red Star Belgrade.-Borac Cacak:His football career began in the team Borac Čačak, Čačak in his home....
, football player - Dragan KićanovićDragan KicanovicDragan Kićanović is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. A 1.91m tall shooting guard, he played in the 70's and 80's and is considered as one of the best European players and scorers of all time, having won both the Mr. Europa and the Euroscar European Player of the Year awards in...
, former basketball player and coach - Dragomir ČumićDragomir CumicDragomir Čumić is a Serbian actor. His credits includes roles in the TV series The Collector and Bolji život.-External links:...
, actor - Dragutin GavrilovićDragutin GavrilovicDragutin Gavrilović was a notable Serbian and, later, Yugoslav military officer.Gavrilović was born in Čačak, Serbia, in 1882. After his graduation from the military academy in Belgrade in 1901, he took part in every war the Serbian army fought until World War II.He is remembered in Serbian...
, military officer - Hadži Prodan Gligorijević, leader of the Hadži Prodan's Revolt
- Ivan StambolićIvan StambolicIvan Stambolić was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of the Republic of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....
, politician - Ivan StevanovićIvan StevanovicIvan Stevanović is a Serbian footballer who last played for French club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.-Club career:...
, football player - Ivica DragutinovićIvica DragutinovicIvica Dragutinović , sometimes just Drago, is a Serbian footballer.Mainly a central defender, he can also operate as a defensive left back...
, football player - Marko LomićMarko LomicMarko Lomić is a Serbian footballer. He currently plays for Russian Premier League club FC Dynamo Moscow.-Club career:...
, football player - Marko MarinovićMarko MarinovicMarko Marinović is a Serbian basketball player, playing the point guard position. He currently plays for Krasnye Krylya in Russia.-National team:...
, basketball player - Milan JovanovicMilan Jovanovic (footballer born 1983)Milan Jovanović is a Montenegrin international footballer. He is playing for PFC Spartak Nalchik.-Club career:...
, football player - Milan StojadinovićMilan StojadinovicMilan Stojadinović was a Yugoslav political figure and a noted economist.Stojadinović was born in Čačak in central Serbia, and went to school in Užice and Kragujevac. In 1910 he graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School, and gained a Ph.D. in economics in 1911...
, politician - Milivoje VitakićMilivoje VitakicMilivoje Vitakić is a Serbian footballer who plays for Grenoble Foot 38 in the French Ligue 1, after departing Lille OSC under freedom of contract.-References:...
, football player - Miloš MinićMiloš MinicMiloš Minić was a Serbian communist politician....
, politician - Milovan Destil MarkovićMilovan Destil MarkovicMilovan DeStil Marković is Serbian visual artist, who began his career in the early 1980s. Active for over two decades, he is recently described as father of Transfigurative Painting and the Text Portrait...
, artist - Milovan Rajevac, football coach
- Miroslav IlićMiroslav IlicMiroslav Ilić , is a popular Serbian folk singer-songwriter. He is known for his powerful vocals and emotional lyrics. Before becoming a musician he took Electrical courses at a University of Skopje...
, folk singer - Mladomir Puriša ĐorđevićMladomir Puriša ĐorđevićMladomir Puriša Đorđević is a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 62 films since 1947. His 1966 film The Dream was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
, film director and screenwriter - Momčilo PerišićMomcilo PerišicMomčilo Perišić was a Serbian general and Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army until 1998. On 6 September 2011 Perišić was found guilty for war crimes and crimes against humanity and was sentenced to 27 years of imprisonment...
, general - Nadežda PetrovićNadežda PetrovicNadežda Petrović is considered the most important Serbian female painter from the late 19th and early 20th century...
, painter - Patriarch Irinej of SerbiaPatriarch Irinej of SerbiaPatriarch Irinej is the 45th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, since 22 January 2010. His full title is His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Serbian Patriarch Irinej...
, patriarch - Petar StambolićPetar StambolicPetar Stambolić was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1982 until 1983.Stambolić was born in Brezova, Ivanjica, Kingdom of Serbia and died in Belgrade, Serbia...
, politician - Predrag Koraksić CoraxPredrag Koraksic CoraxPregrag Koraksić Corax is a Serbian political caricaturist.- Biography :Koraksić was born in Čačak in 1933. His father, one of the Partisan Movement leaders, was killed during the World War II by Chetniks. Corax spent four years as a refugee.After the war Corax graduated from grammar school in...
, caricaturist - Radisav ĆurčićRadisav CurcicRadisav Ćurčić is a Serbian basketball player, who also holds an Israeli citizenship. He is 206 cm tall , and played center.His clubs included:...
, former basketball player - Radmila BakočevićRadmila BakocevicRadmila 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...
, soprano - Radojko AvramovićRadojko AvramovicRadojko Avramović is the current national team coach of the Singapore national football team...
, football coach - Radomir Mihailović Točak, rock guitarist
- Robert KišerlovskiRobert KiserlovskiRobert Kišerlovski is a Croatian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . He turned professional in 2005.At the 2011 Paris–Nice, Kišerlovski crashed on a slippery downhill and slid underneath a parked truck, being caught underneath it for several minutes and needing eight stitches.-...
, road bicycle racer - Slobodan Tosic, Serbian international cricketer
- Sonja SavićSonja SavicSonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...
, actress - Stepa StepanovićStepa StepanovicStepa Stepanović OSS OCT GCMG was a field marshal of the Serbian Army who distinguished himself in Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918.Stepa Stepanović was born in the village of Kumodraž outside of Belgrade on...
, general from World War I - Stracimir ZavidovićStracimir ZavidovićStracimir Zavidović was a 12th-century Serbian Prince of West Morava in 1163-1166, an administrative division of the Medieval Serbian Principality....
, 12th-century Serbian noble that ruled DukljaDukljaDoclea or Duklja was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north....
- Tatomir Anđelić, mathematician
- Uroš TripkovićUroš TripkovicUroš Tripković is a Serbian professional basketball player. He plays as a shooting guard. He is known as a good 3-point shooter. He is currently playing for Unicaja Málaga.-Player profile:...
, basketball player - Velimir IlićVelimir IlicVelimir "Velja" Ilić is Serbian politician and a former Minister of Capital Investments in the Serbian government in the cabinet of Vojislav Koštunica.- Biography :...
, politician - Vera MatovićVera MatovicVera Matović is a Serbian folk singer.-Discography:*1974 - Pomiri se sa sudbinom *1975 - Sve ili ništa *1975 - Od nemila do nedraga *1976 - Skloni mi se s puta...
, folk singer - Vlada JovanovićVlada JovanovićVladimir "Vlade" Jovanović is a Serbian basketball coach. In June 2010, he became the head coach of KK Partizan.-Biography:...
, basketball coach - Vladan VasilijevićVladan VasilijevicVladan Vasilijević was one of the most prominent Yugoslav specialists in criminal law in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s he was engaged as a human rights lawyer promoting a democratic civil society and the rule of law in Serbia. In December 1989 he was one of the members of the Founding Committee...
, politician and specialist in criminal law - Vladislav Petković DisVladislav Petkovic DisVladislav Petković Dis was a Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry. He was born in 1880 in Zablaće, near Čačak in Serbia and died in 1917 on a boat on the Ionian Sea.-Biography:...
, poet - Željko ObradovićŽeljko ObradovicŽelimir “Željko” Obradović is a Serbian professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player...
, former basketball player and coach - Zoran Kostić (footballer), football player
Twin towns — Sister cities
Čačak is twinnedTown twinning
Twin towns and sister cities are two of many terms used to describe the cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.- Terminology :...
with: Katerini
Katerini
Katerini is a town in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of Pieria regional unit. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m. The town, which is one of the newest in Greece, has a population of 83,764...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
Turčianske Teplice
Turcianske Teplice
Turčianske Teplice is a town in central Slovakia in the Žilina Region. It is about halfway between Martin and Kremnica. As of 2005 the town's population was 6,941...
, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
Filippoi
Filippoi
Filippoi , is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kavala, of which it is a municipal unit. The 2001 census reported a population of 10,827 for the municipal unit...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
Han Pijesak
Han Pijesak
Han Pijesak is a town and municipality of Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Settlements:• Babine Gornje• Berkovina• Brložnik• Džimrije• Gođenje• Han Pijesak• Japaga• Jelovci• Kraljevo Polje• Kram...
, Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
Bratunac
Bratunac
Bratunac is a town and municipality located in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The easternmost point of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in the municipality of Bratunac which lies in the Republika Srpska.-1971:26.513 total...
, Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...