- Kotež
Kotež (Serbian
Cyrillic : Котеж) is an urban neighborhood ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.Kotež is located in the Palilula municipality's section that falls in
Banat region, on the northern bank of the "Kalovita" canal. It also borders the neighborhoods ofDunavski Venac to the north andKrnjača 's neighborhoods Blok Sutjeska to the east and Partizanski Blok to the southeast.Originally intended as the western extension of Krnjača (and officially part of it until 1971 when Krnjača lost a status of the separate settlement and became part of the Belgrade City proper itself), it was constructed west of the "Zrenjaninski put" road which connects the cities of Belgrade and
Zrenjanin , without urbanistic connection to any other neighborhoods. As the settlements in this area grew, Kotež today makes one continuous built-up area with Krnjača andBorča to the north.At the time being built in the "middle of the nowhere", the settlement was constructed in the shape of perfect elongated
octagon . Since the 1980s the settlement stretched over its envisioned geometrical proportions and now it is core of the chaotic and irregular expanded urbanized area, mostly to the west and south. The area is entirely residential, without industrial and almost any commercial facilities. It has a population of 7,287 in 2002.In the early 2000s Kotež became known
Serbia -wide for its bustling hip-hop scene that developed within the neighbourhood with groups likePrti Bee Gee ,Bad Copy ,Bitcharke na travi , and the associated solo acts that they spawned likeAjs Nigrutin andTimjah .References
* "Beograd - plan grada"; M@gic M@p, 2006; ISBN 86-83501-53-1
* "Beograd - plan i vodič"; Geokarta, 1999; ISBN 86-459-0006-8External links
* [http://www.kotez.rs/ Web site of Kotež]
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