- East Vračar
East Vračar or Istočni Vračar (Serbian
Cyrillic : Источни Врачар) is a former urban neighborhood and municipality ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It was located in Belgrade's municipality ofVračar to which it generally corresponds today.Location
Istočni Vračar was located in the area which is today covered by the territory of the municipality of Vračar and the westernmost section of the municipality of
Zvezdara (local community ("mesna zajednica") of Vračarsko Polje) and represents the eastern part of the former, much larger neighborhood of Vračar (seeZapadni Vračar ).History
Istočni Vračar started to be built since 1880 when a Scottish businessman and
Nazarene Francis Mackenzie bought a large piece of land nearby (which eventually became known asEnglezovac , Serbian for "Englishman's place"), parcelled it out into lots for selling and donated a piece of land to theSerbian Orthodox Church for the construction of theTemple of Saint Sava . Later, Istočni Vračar extended toGrantovac , an area of land belonging to the American consulEdward Maxwell Grant andKrunski Venac around the "Krunska street", a street starting from the Royal Park and ending withKalenić market . Kalenić market is the largest open air market in Belgrade and is the commercial centre of modern Vračar.Municipality
The municipality of Vračar was officially formed in 1952 after Belgrade was administratively reorganized from districts (rejon) to municipalities. Already on September 1, 1955 Vračar was divided into Zapadni Vračar and Istočni Vračar. Year and a half later, on January 1, 1957, parts of Istočni Vračar merged with the municipality of Neimar and the western part of the municipality of Terazije to create new, albeit the smallest one municipality in Belgrade. Zapadni Vračar became municipality of Savski Venac, while the easternmost section of Istočni Vračar became part of the municipality of Zvezdara.
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