- Ada Međica
Ada Međica (Serbian
Cyrillic : Ада Међица) is an urban neighborhood ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality ofNovi Beograd .Ada Međica is an ovally shaped river island in the Sava river, a kilometer long and 200 m wide. It is located just north of the central part of the much larger
Ada Ciganlija .It is forested and basically has no resident population, but has many weekend-houses owned by the residents of Belgrade. During summer over 2,000 Belgraders spend weekends on Ada Međica, which is accessible only by small boats. Leisure activities mostly include swimming, walking and BBQ, as the area is nearly intact and without touristic facilities. One of the local communities which constitute the neighborhood of
Blokovi of Novi Beograd was named Ada Međica in the 1990s, with a population of 4,636 in 2002.Name of the island, Ada Međica, is Serbian for "border river island" as for the centuries the Sava river was a border of many states (
Roman Empire ,Byzantine Empire ,Kingdom of Hungary ,Serbia ,Ottoman Empire ,Habsburg Monarchy , etc). In a certain way the island is on the borderline today too as it belongs to the municipality of Novi Beograd, and 100 meters away Ada Ciganlija belongs to the municipality ofČukarica .External links
* [http://www.cvrcak.co.yu/adamedjica/start.htm Ada Međica photo page with texts in Serbian]
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