Čačak

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Čačak Чачак
—  Town  —
Coat of arms
Location of Čačak within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°53′N 20°21′E / 43.883°N 20.35°E / 43.883; 20.35
Country	Serbia
District	Moravica
Settlements	58
Government
- Mayor	Velimir Stanojević (New Serbia)
Area [1]
- Municipality	636 km2 (245.6 sq mi)
Population (2002 census)[2]
- Municipality	117,072
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	32000
Area code	+381 32
Car plates	ČA
Website	www.cacak.org.rs

Čačak

A panorama of Čačak

Čačak (Serbian Cyrillic: Чачак) is a city and municipality located 140 km south from Belgrade in Serbia at 43°50' North, 20°20' East. In 2003 the city had a total population of 73.217. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district.

[edit] Municipality

The Municipality of Čačak includes the following settlements:

[edit] History

Princely tombs of Greco-Illyrian type (Glasinac culture) were found in two mounds of Atenica, near Čačak, with Ionian glass, glass-paste, amber beads and Attic plaque of Wild boar, dating to late 6th century BC^[3]. 6th century BC ornitho-morphic fibulae of Bronze swans was found in Mojsinje^[4].

Čačak has two years on its coat of arms. First being 1408, when the city is first recorded of (as Gradac), and the second is 1815, the year Second Serbian Uprising began and the battle of Ljubic hill was fought. This battle is famous for heroic victory of the rebels who defeated Ottoman army numbering 60,000 men, twice more than the Serbs. The church in the center of Čačak was built in the XII century by #REDIRECT Stephen Nemanja's brother, Stracimir. It was made a mosque, and then a church back again in the XIX century.

[edit] Demographics (2002 census)

[edit] Politics

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Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2004 local elections^[5]:

[edit] Famous natives and residents

• Radisav Ćurčić, basketball player
• Bora Đorđević, rock musician
• Velimir Ilić, politician
• Dragan Kićanović, basketball player and coach
• Predrag Koraksić Corax, caricaturist
• Vera Matović, folk singer
• Radomir Mihailović Točak, rock guitariss
• Željko Obradović, basketball player and coach
• Jovan Obradović ("gospodar Jovan"), brother of prince Miloš Obradović
• Vladislav Petković Dis, poet
• Nadežda Petrović, painter
• Branko V. Radičević, poet
• Tanasko Rajić, one of leaders of the First Serbian Uprising
• Bogić Risimović, painter
• Sonja Savić, actress
• Ivan Stevanović, footballer
• Stepa Stepanović, general from World War I

[edit] International relations

[edit] Twin towns — Sister cities

Čačak is twinned with:

• Katerini, Greece
• Turčianske Teplice, Slovakia
• Filippoi, Greece
• Han Pijesak, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

[edit] See also

• List of places in Serbia

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Čačak
• plavosrce.com /razvojna inicijativa oblasti/

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