Grdelica (town)
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Грделица
Grdelica
Country:
Subdivision: Jablanica District
Jablanica District
The Jablanica District expands in the south eastern parts of Serbia. It has a population of 215,463...

, Leskovac municipality
Leskovac
Leskovac is a city and municipality in southern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia...

Location: 17 km south of Leskovac
Population:
2002

2,383
Area code: 016
Postal code
Postal code
A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. Once postal codes were introduced, other applications became possible.In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems...

:
16220
License plates: Le


Grdelica (Грделица) is a town 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...

. It is situated in the Leskovac
Leskovac
Leskovac is a city and municipality in southern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia...

 municipality, in the Jablanica District
Jablanica District
The Jablanica District expands in the south eastern parts of Serbia. It has a population of 215,463...

. The population of the town was 2,383 people as of the 2002 census.

Grdelica lies near the Juzna Morava. It is the largest settlement in the territory from Leskovac to Vranje, and it was a seat of a municipality until absorbed by the Leskovac Municipality in the 1960s.

It has a football stadium (the name of the football team is "FK Jedinstvo"), a basketball court, and a swimming pool. "Desanka Maksimović
Desanka Maksimovic
Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, professor of literature, and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.-Biography:...

" is the name of the primary school. Woodworks "Danilo Boskovic" and "Textile Industry Grdelica (TIG)" are two major factories.

History

It was part of a Iron Age culture, with 8th century BC pottery found in the downstream river.
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