- Petlovo Brdo
Petlovo Brdo or colloquially among the local population Pevac (Serbian
Cyrillic : Петлово Брдо or Певац) is an urban neighborhood ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica.Location
Petlovo Brdo is located in the central part of the municipality, on the eastern slopes of the 205 meters high hill of the same name. The neighborhood developed on the crossing of two major suburban roads of Belgrade, "Ibarska magistrala" and "Kružni put". It is bordered by the neighborhoods of
Labudovo Brdo on the north and Kijevo on the east, while west and south from the neighborhood are still not urbanized. Further to the west is the neighborhood ofŽeleznik , while further to the south the cemetery ofOrlovača , both in the municipality ofČukarica .The name of the hill and neighborhood, Petlovo brdo, is Serbian for "rooster's hill" ("petao" - rooster, "brdo" - hill). Younger generations refer the the neighborhood simply as Pevac which is just more rural name for rooster.
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