25 Facts About Zemun

Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934.

The Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 finally placed the town into Habsburg possession, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rights of a military commune in 1749.

In 1777, Zemun had 6,800 residents, half of which were ethnic Serbs, while another half of population was composed of Germans, Hungarians and Jews.

In 1541, Zemun was integrated into the Syrmia sanjak of the Budin pashaluk.

Zemun and the southeastern Syrmia were conquered by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1717, after the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Peterwardein and through the Treaty of Pozarevac became a property of the Schonborn family.

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The Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 finally fixed the border, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rights of a military commune in 1749.

In 1754, the population of Zemun included 1,900 Eastern Orthodox Christians, 600 Catholics, 76 Jews, and about 100 Romani.

In 1777, the population of Zemun numbered 1,130 houses with 6,800 residents, half of which were ethnic Serbs, while another half of population was composed of Catholics, Jews, Armenians and Muslims.

Zemun became important in Serbian history as the refuge for Karadorde in 1813 as well as many other people from the nearby Belgrade and the rest of Karadorde's Serbia which fell to the Ottoman rule.

Zemun Fortress was the site of the first shots fired during World War I, when the Austro-Hungarian Army shelled the Serbian capital of Belgrade.

The urban section of Zemun is both the most northern and the most western section of urban Belgrade.

Zemun originally developed on three hills, Gardos, Cukovac and Kalvarija, on the right bank of the Danube, where the widening of the Danube begins and the Great War Island is formed at the mouth of the Sava river.

Today it appears that Zemun is built on several hills, with passages between them turned into modern streets, but the hills are actually manmade.

The city of Zemun itself was built right on the bank, 100 metres above sea level.

One of the characteristics of the Zemun's topography are the lagums, artificial underground corridors which crisscross below the loess area of Gardos, Muhar, Cukovac and Kalvarija.

Zemun fled down the lagum to the Danube, and then via boat and a plane, escaped to Brazil.

Lagums remained an important part of the local Zemun identity, preserving the spirit of the town and personal memories.

Municipality of Zemun became part of the Belgrade City Area with the division of Yugoslavia into banovinas by king Alexander I on October 3,1929.

Zemun is one of the most developed municipalities of Belgrade, with developed industries in almost every branch.

Until 2014, Zemun had no bridges, apart from the seasonal pontoon bridge which connects the mainland with the Great War Island during summer.

Zemun expressed fear that having in mind the "synchronous ad hoc decisions of the administration", the reaction should be prompt as the seemingly benign idea is actually a strategically disastrous enterprise.

The Prokop is incomplete, a projected main freight station in Zemun is not being adapted at all while there is even no project on a Belgrade railway beltway.

However, Zemun developed completely independently from Belgrade for centuries and for the most part during the history two towns belonged to two different states.

Zemun became part of the same administrative unit as Belgrade on 4 October 1929, lost a separate town status to Belgrade in 1934 and made a continuous built-up area with Belgrade only since the 1950s.

Zemun is known for many squares, though almost all of them are small in size: Magistratski, Senjski, Veliki, Branka Radicevica, Karadordev, Masarikov, etc.

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