Ugrinovci is a suburban settlement of Belgrade

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

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun

Zemun

Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...

.

Location

Ugrinovci is located in the eastern section of the Syrmia

Syrmia

Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....

 region, in the western part of the municipality of Zemun, near the administrative border of the municipality of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

. It is located on the Batajnica

Batajnica

Batajnica is an suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.-Name:...

-Dobanovci

Dobanovci

Dobanovci is an suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin....

 road. In the northern direction to Batajnica, which is 8 km away, is the new sub-neighborhood of Busije

Busije

Busije is an suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.- Location :...

, while in the northern direction to Dobanovci (4 km, over the Belgrade-Zagreb highway) is the also new sub-neighbrohood of Grmovac

Grmovac

Grmovac is an suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.- Location :...

, both being populated since the mid 1990s with the refugees from Croatia

Croatia

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 and Bosnia and Hercegovina, which almost doubled the population of Ugrinovci.

Population

Population of Ugrinovci has been steadily growing for the last four decades. Population according to the official censuses of population:

• 1948 - 1,769
• 1953 - 1,728
• 1961 - 1,895
• 1971 - 2,258
• 1981 - 3,278
• 1991 - 4,007
• 2002 - 7,199

Ethnic structure (2002): 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...

  7,007 (97,33%), Roma 40 (0,55%).

Characteristics

Ugrinovci is statistically classified as a village, since majority of its population is employed in agriculture. Since detachment of the municipality of 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...

 from Zemun in 2003, Ugrinovci remained the only separate settlement in the municipality of Zemun, as all the other settlements (Batajnica, Zemun Polje

Zemun Polje

Zemun Polje is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.- Location :...

, former city of Zemun, etc) are part of the Belgrade city proper (uža teritorija grada).

Name of the village comes from the medieval name for Hungarians (Ugri).

External links

• Ugrinovci