Čačak
Čačak
| Čačak Чачак |
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| Coordinates: 43°53′N 20°21′E / 43.883°N 20.35°E | |||
| Country | Serbia | ||
| District | Moravica | ||
| Settlements | 58 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Velimir Stanojević (NS) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Municipality | 636 km2 (245.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2002 census) | |||
| - Town | 73,217 | ||
| - Municipality | 117,072 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 32000 | ||
| Area code | +381 32 | ||
| Car plates | ČA | ||
| Website | www.cacak.org.rs | ||
Čačak (Serbian Cyrillic: Чачак, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [t͡ʃǎːt͡ʃak]) 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. In the 2002 census, the city had a total population of 73,217.
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Municipality
The Municipality of Čačak includes the following settlements:
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History
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 with Ionian 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.
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 | 114,208 |
| Montenegrins | 563 |
| Roma | 383 |
| Yugoslavs | 299 |
| Macedonians | 127 |
| Croats | 109 |
| Others | 1,383 |
| Total | 117,072 |
Famous natives and residents
- Boban Dmitrović, football player
- Bora Đorđević, rock musician
- Branko V. Radičević, poet
- Darko Lazović, football player
- Dragan Kićanović, former basketball player and coach
- Dragomir Čumić, actor
- Dragutin Gavrilović, military officer
- Hadži Prodan Gligorijević, leader of the Hadži Prodan's Revolt
- Ivan Stambolić, politician
- Ivan Stevanović, football player
- Ivica Dragutinović, football player
- Marko Lomić, football player
- Marko Marinović, basketball player
- Milan Jovanovic, football player
- Milan Stojadinović, politician
- Milivoje Vitakić, football player
- Miloš Minić, politician
- Milovan Destil Marković, artist
- Milovan Rajevac, football coach
- Miroslav Ilić, folk singer
- Mladomir Puriša Đorđević, film director and screenwriter
- Momčilo Perišić, general
- Nadežda Petrović, painter
- Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, patriarch
- Petar Stambolić, politician
- Predrag Koraksić Corax, caricaturist
- Radisav Ćurčić, former basketball player
- Radmila Bakočević, soprano
- Radojko Avramović, football coach
- Radomir Mihailović Točak, rock guitarist
- Robert Kiserlovski, road bicycle racer
- Slobodan Tosic, Serbian international cricketer
- Sonja Savić, actress
- Stepa Stepanović, general from World War I
- Stracimir Zavidović, 12th-century Serbian noble that ruled Duklja
- Tatomir Anđelić, mathematician
- Uroš Tripković, basketball player
- Velimir Ilić, politician
- Vera Matović, folk singer
- Vlada Jovanović, basketball coach
- Vladan Vasilijević, politician and specialist in criminal law
- Vladislav Petković Dis, poet
- Željko Obradović, former basketball player and coach
- Zoran Kostić (footballer), football player
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Čačak is twinned with:
Katerini, Greece
Turčianske Teplice, Slovakia- Filippoi, Greece
Han Pijesak, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina- Bratunac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
See also
- List of places in Serbia
- ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/en/Zip/OG2006webE.zip. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ (in Serbian) Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Statistical Office of Serbia. 2003. ISBN 86-84443-00-09. May be downloaded from: [1]
- ^ http://www.to-cacak.com/?at_id=66
- ^ Trebenishte: the fortunes of an unusual excavation - M. Stibbe,Rastko Vasić
- ^ http://sehumed.uv.es/revista/numero16/SEHUMED_colecc131.PDF
- ^ hrcak.srce.hr/file/71455
- ^ http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1871
- ^ http://books.google.se/books?id=mnSq1VNloGsC
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