- Požarevac
Infobox Serbia municipality
native_name = Пожаревац|official_name=Požarevac
image_shield = Grb-Pozarevac.jpg
district = Braničevo
mayor = Dušan Vujčić (SPS)
area_km2 = 482
population_total = 41736 | mpop=74902
date-pop = | mpop=74902
latd = 44| latm = 37|longd = 21| longm = 11
code = 12
settlements = 27
plates = PO
postal_code = 12000
website = www.pozarevac.org.yuPožarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац) is a city located in
Serbia at coord|44|37|12|N|21|11|23|E|type:city. It is the administrative center of theBraničevo District of Serbia. In2002 , the city had total population of 41,736.Name
In Serbian, the city is known as "Požarevac" (Пожаревац), in Romanian as "Pojarevaţ" or "Podu Lung", in Turkish as "Pasarofça", in German as "Passarowitz", and in Hungarian as "Pozsarevác".
Its name means "fire-town" in Serbian.
History
It is historically known as the site of the signing the
Treaty of Passarowitz (1718) and, then known as Margus, for a treaty between theHun leaders Attila andBleda and theByzantine Empire (435 AD). Margus was sacked by the Huns in their invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire in 442.It is also where former President of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milošević was born on20 August 1941 and buried on18 March 2006 .Municipality
Municipality of Požarevac include following settlements:
*Bare
*Batovac
*Beranje
*Bradarac
*Bratinac
*Brežane
*Bubušinac
*Dragovac
*Drmno
*Dubravica
*Živica
*Kasidol
*Klenovnik
*Kličevac
*Kostolac
*Lučica
*Maljurevac
*Nabrđe
*Ostrovo
*Petka
*Poljana
*Prugovo
*Rečica
*Selo Kostolac
*Trnjane
*Ćirikovac Population through history
During time of the Principality of Serbia,Požarevac was among the largest cities (after Belgrade,Niš,Kragujevac and Leskovac). After World War I and World War II population declined because of the war losses.
*1900: 12,980
*1905: 12,162
*1910: 13,613
*1921: 11,500
*1931: 14,042
*1941: 16,300 (estimate)
*1948: 15,474
*1953: 18,529
*1961: 24,269
*1971: 32,828
*1981: 39,735
*1991: 41,160
*2002: 41,736
*2007: 44,258 (estimate)Demographics
Ethnic groups in the Požarevac municipality (2002 census):
*Serbs = 68,779
*Roma = 2,603
*Yugoslavs = 275
*Montenegrins = 262
*Macedonians = 174
*Croats = 117
*Vlachs = 109Politics
Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2004 local elections: [http://www.cesid.org/lokalni2004/rezultati.jsp?opstina=70947]
*Socialist Party of Serbia (16)
*Democratic Party (15)
*Serbian Radical Party (10)
*Democratic Party of Serbia (9)
*Serbian Strength Movement (8)
*Coalition "Because of Požarevac" (6)
*G17 Plus (4)Gallery
ee also
*
List of places in Serbia External links
*http://www.pozarevac.net
*http://pozarevac.com
*http://pozarevac.tk
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