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16 unusual facts about Belgrade


1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships

The 1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships was the first edition of the championships and were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from 21-24 June 1953.

Belgrade, Missouri

The community was founded in 1876 and was named after Belgrade in Serbia.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 2

Beograd, uživo '97 – 2 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 – 2) is the second disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Decline of the Ottoman Empire

This led to hostilities with Austria, in which the Ottoman Empire had an unsuccessful outcome, and Belgrade fell into the hands of Austria in 1717.

The Austrians, however, did not fare as well, as Ottoman forces brought Belgrade and northern Serbia back under their control.

Direktori

During the same year, on April, they entered the finals of the Palilula Culture Olympics (POK) and in June the band performed at the students protest and on the Vidovdan gathering.

Dusan Krajcinovic

He received the October Prize for Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Science (Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990), the Gold Medal for achievements in Science and Technology (Crete, 1999), and Laurea Honoris Causa (Milan, Italy, 2001).

He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Belgrade (1958, 1966) before emigrating to the US.

Dušan Mitević

He resigned from the post following the violent March 1991 Belgrade protests which had been organized by opposition parties against the increasingly propagandist content of state-controlled media.

Institute for Balkan Studies

It is located in the building of the Academy in downtown Belgrade.

International Radio of Serbia

From 1951, the foreign program for the world had been broadcast through Stubline Transmission Center, located in the vicinity of Belgrade, and a new center beside Bijeljina (the Republika Srpska) was completed in 1987.

Joy of Europe

The annual event takes place in Belgrade, Serbia with 30 European nations showcasing their culture through dance and music.

Marin Studin

In 1929 he married to Ivan Meštrović's sister and ten years later was appointed as a professor at the Academy of Art in Belgrade.

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac

He died suddenly of a heart attack on April 5, 1873, and was buried in the family tomb of Jevrem Obrenović in Rakovica.

Sebastian Shaumyan

"Brilliant world-famous linguist deserves tenure," came an admirably unambiguous cable from Belgrade.

Yuri Ofrosimov

In 1933, Ofrosimov moved to Belgrade where he was arrested by German forces during the Second World War.


117th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment remained at Pula in 1948, but that same year it moved to Cerklje, where it was to remain until 1949 when it was moved to Zemun, with the new task of defending the capital city Belgrade.

2008 Kosovo declaration of independence

On 23 February, 44 protesters were arrested after burning the Serbian flag, in the main square of Zagreb (Croatia), following Serb protesters attacking the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

Aleksandar Maćašev

He moved to Belgrade in 1991 to attend the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1998.

Aleksandar Tijanić

After finishing high school in his home town, he moved to Belgrade to study journalism at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Political Sciences.

Aleksander Brückner

He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as academies in Prague and Belgrade.

Begaljica

In 1717 the Austrians took the city again, and Belgrade and its surroundings became the Kingdom of Serbia, 1718–1739, and the villages around Belgrade were deserted and therefore temporarely settled with families from Worms and Styria, including Begaljica, which under Austrian administration was called Bigaliza.

Belgrade Central Station

Belgrade–Glavna railway station (in Serbian: Železnička stanica Beograd–Glavna / Железничка станица Београд–Главна), today's centrally located main railway station in Belgrade

Belgrade Synagogue

There is one other surviving synagogue building in the Belgrade area, located in the town of Zemun.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Bjelasica

It has the advantage of being easily accessible, as town of Kolašin is situated on both main road from Podgorica to Serbia and on Belgrade–Bar railway.

Brienz

In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled in the alpine valleys among the sources of the Rhone, the Rhine and the Danube, eventually stretching from the headwaters down to Vienna and Belgrade.

Dommino

In autumn of 2007 she released single "Sviraj", which announced her first concert in Sava Centar in Belgrade, which was held on November 11, 2007.

Dragan Veselinov

On Tuesday April 15, 2003 around 9:40am, government-issued Mitsubishi Pajero SUV driven by Stevan Bakalov with Veselinov and his bodyguard on the back seat and rotation lights turned on was heading down Beogradska Street towards Slavija Square in downtown Belgrade.

Đorđe Andrejević-Kun

In the years following World War II, he had one-man shows in Belgrade (1953 and 1959), Kragujevac, Čačak, Niš, Skopje, Zemun, and Sombor, and in Berlin in 1963.

Frane Matošić

He twice refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring of Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan"

Haris Brkić

One year later he returned to Belgrade, beginning the 1993–94 season with the Partizan first team led by the also newly arrived head coach Željko Lukajić.

Heino Kurvet

He won a bronze medal in the K-4 10,000 m event at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

İzmir Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Jelena Genčić

Parallel to sports, she graduated art history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transformed into Radio Television of Serbia.

Jerković

Braće Jerković an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia

Jovan Bijelić

Jovan Bijelić (Cyrillic Јован Бијелић) (Kolunić near Bosanski Petrovac, June 30, 1884 or June 19, 1886 - Belgrade, March 12, 1964) was a Serbian painter, one of the most important Yugoslav visual artists between the world wars.

Likoshane massacre

Nataša Kandić of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center, accused Danica Marinković, formerly investigating judge of the Priština District Court, for the murders of the Ahmeti family.

Maia Chiburdanidze

She was 1st in tournaments in New Delhi (1984) and Banja Luka (1985) and in the next decade she finished 1st in Belgrade (1992), Vienna (1993) and in Lippstadt (1995).

Milan Matulović

Other first place finishes during this period, either shared or outright, included Netanya 1961, Vršac 1964, Novi Sad 1965, Belgrade 1965, Reggio Emilia 1967/68, Athens Zonal 1969, Belgrade 1969, Sarajevo 1971, Birmingham 1975, Bajmok 1975 (and in 1978), Majdanpek 1976, Vrbas 1976, Belgrade 1977 and Odzaci 1978.

Milorad Dodik

On 5 May 2008, Dodik and Serbian President Boris Tadić inaugurated the Park Republika Srpska in Belgrade.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Miško Šuvaković

He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade, 1982–1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad, 1995–1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).

Monument to the Unknown Hero

Several prominent historians from Belgrade and Sarajevo have claimed that the unknown hero is a Bosniak named Sulejman Balić, a soldier from Duga Poljana, a town between Novi Pazar and Sjenica, that fought in the Serbian army against Austria-Hungary.

Natalie of Serbia

In 1888, Queen Natalie and her son left for another long foreign stay in Wiesbaden - obviously without intention to return to Belgrade.

Ognjen Petrović

Ognjen "Olja" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњен Петровић) (2 January 1948 in Kruševac, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia – 21 September 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian goalkeeper who played at Euro 76 for SFR Yugoslavia.

Patriarch German of Serbia

Hranislav Đorić received a broad education and was among most educated members of the Serbian clergy, attending primary school in Velika Drenova and Kruševac, seminary in Belgrade and Sremski Karlovci (graduating in 1921), studying law in Paris' Sorbonne and finally graduating from the University of Belgrade's Orthodox Theology Faculty in 1942.

Paulina Irby

Similarly, a street in Belgrade, within the municipality of Zvezdara, Ulica Mis Irbijeve carries her name.

Pavle Bulatović

The shooting took place at a restaurant in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica and Bulatović later died at a military hospital.

Predrag Koraksić Corax

After the war Corax graduated from grammar school in Zemun and studied architecture in Belgrade.

Rade Bogdanović

Bogdanović and his family reside in Belgrade though they also spend time in Marbella where he owns an apartment.

Radnička Kontrola

Radnička Kontrola (Serbian Cyrillic: Радничка Контрола, trans. Workers' Control) was a former Yugoslav punk rock/New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s and notable for its appearance on the compilation album Artistička radna akcija.

Slađana Perunović

The 2009 Summer Universiade was held in Belgrade and she competed in both the women's 800 metres and the women's 1500 metres.

Stevan Dimitrijević

In Belgrade, in 1936, at Kolarac he was conferred an honorary doctorate in theology and became a member of the History institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Subotica tram system

While neighbouring cities' trams at this date were often still horse-drawn, this gave the Subotica system an advantage over municipalities including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb, and Szeged.

TEAMS Design

key people = Reinhard Renner
Klaus Baumgartner
Hans Peter Aglassinger
Ulrich Schweig, Hamburg
Zarko Bubalo, Belgrade
Paul Hatch, Chicago
An Luo, Shanghai
Martin Rauch, Shanghai

Tesla's Letters

The play takes place in 1997, two years after Operation Storm and the Dayton Agreement and two years prior to the start of the Kosovo War and the US-led 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, with the scenes set at the Nikola Tesla Museum in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on a bus at the Serbian-Croatian border, and at Tesla's birthplace in the Croatian village of Smiljan.

Toni Montano

In 1993, Toni Montano acted in a stageplay Bilo jednom u Beogradu (Once Upon a Time in Belgrade) directed by himself and Miki Manojlović.

Trebeništa

These finds are housed in the Archaeological Museums in Ohrid, Sofia and Belgrade.

Veliki brat

The house is located in Belgrade, urban neighborhood of Košutnjak.

Vuk Matić

He graduated-B.A. and M.A. in solo singing at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Professor emerita Radmila Bakočević.

W.A.K.O. European Championships 2002

Notable winners included a young Muamer Hukić (more commonly known as the cruiserweight boxing champion Marco Huck) and there were a number of repeat winners from the last world championships in Belgrade with Ramadani Besnik, Fouad Habbani, Olesya Gladkova, Oxana Vassileva, Barbara Plazzoli and Marjut Lappalainen all picking up gold medals.