New Belgrade is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.
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21 Facts About New Belgrade
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New Belgrade is located on the left bank of the Sava River, in the easternmost part of the Srem region.
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European route E75, with five grade separations, including a new double-looped one at the Belgrade Arena, goes right through the middle of the settlement.
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Except for its western section, Bezanija, New Belgrade is built on a terrain that was essentially a swamp when construction of the new city began in 1948.
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New Belgrade even envisioned the bridge across the northern tip of Ada Ciganlija, across the Sava, which realized in 2012.
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In 1930s members of New Belgrade's affluent elite began to buy land from the villagers of Bezanija, which at that time, administratively spread all the way to the King Alexander Bridge, which was a dividing point between Bezanija and Zemun.
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New Belgrade even continued his involvement on the project after 1941 when the Nazis conquered, occupied, and dissolved the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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New Belgrade asked from the state government to banish all private land owners on the Sava's right bank, located between the Belgrade Main railway station and the river and to confiscate the land.
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In general, development of New Belgrade is divided in four major phases, all of which have a landmark buildings constructed in that periods:.
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Apart from being one of the oldest preserved objects in New Belgrade, it was the only representative of the Art Deco in the municipality.
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Architects who are most deserving for New Belgrade's development are Uros Martinovic, Milutin Glavicki, Milosav Mitic, Dusan Milenkovic and Leonid Lenarcic.
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New Belgrade developed on Le Corbusier's principles of the "sun city", which includes many green areas and infrastructure which can easily be upgraded.
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Central section of New Belgrade was declared a cultural monument in January 2021, as the protected spatial cultural-historical unit.
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Ever since the construction began in 1948, New Belgrade experienced explosive population growth, but this trend stopped during the 1990s and became negative.
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Currently finished projects in New Belgrade are Delta City, Sava City, Univerzitetsko Selo, Ada Bridge, Intesa HQ and Usce Tower.
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New Belgrade is served by two more road bridges – Branko's Bridge and Ada Bridge, and by the road-tram Old Sava Bridge.
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Not much attention was paid to detail and subtlety when New Belgrade was being built during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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New Belgrade is twinned with the following cities and municipalities:.
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