Četvrti Jul is a neighbourhood of Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...

, Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located some 1.5 kilometres to southeast from the city centre. It is residential area, consisting of 50 buildings with 4 or 5 storey each, in the street of the same name (Četvrtog jula). Population of the neighbourhood is just over 3,000 inhabitants. Boundaries of the neighbourhood are: Pančevačka

Pancevo

Pančevo is a city and municipality located in the southern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina, 15 km northeast from Belgrade. In 2002, the city had a total population of 77,087, while municipality of Pančevo had 127,162 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the South Banat...

, Dositeja Obradovića

Dositej Obradovic

Dositej Dimitrije Obradović was a Serbian author, philosopher, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia...

 and Dr. Laze Kostića streets and railway.

Name

Curiosly, after the fall of communism, neighbourhood kept its name, which means Fourth of July, which was the date of state holiday in the former, socialist, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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. In the referendum, in the early nineties, inhabitants refuse to change the name of the street into Despota Stefana

Stefan Lazarevic

Stefan Lazarević known also as Stevan the Tall was a Serbian Despot, ruler of the Serbian Despotate between 1389 and 1427. He was the son and heir to Prince Lazar, who died at the Battle of Kosovo against the Turks in 1389, and Princess Milica from the subordinate branch of the Nemanjić dynasty...

, but one nearby street got that name.

Geography and population

Surrounding neighbourhoods are: Lesnina, north-wards, Ruža Šulman, west-wards, and Žitni Trg, further north-westwards. Together with "Četvrti Jul" they make up inner city local community "Dositej Obradović", which have 13,000 inhabitants. Local community occupies southeast part of the city. It have largest population of all local communities in the city. 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...

 are absolute majority in it, with large Hungarian minority. There are, also, other nationalities.

Features

In the neighbourhood of "Četvrti Jul", or in its edges, together with Šećerana

Šecerana

Šećerana is a neighbourhood of Zrenjanin, Serbia. The neighbourhood is both residential and industrial.Local industries include a sugar refinery , heating plant company, electric transformer company, chemical factory, leather factory, medicine preparations plant, cosmetic preparations plant,...

and area towards central bus station, are: seat of the local community, elementary school "Dositej Obradović", 2 kindergartens, General Practitioner's office, 2 supermarkets, few
bars and restaurants, many shops, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, football field, few basketball, handball and volleyball courts, few parks, main bus station.

Nearby are: Post office, Police station and green market (Lesnina); another elementary school "2.Oktobar", 2 kindergartens.

It is widely considered that "Četvrti Jul" is developed urban neighbourhood.