Požarevac

Požarevac
Požarevac; Пожаревац
	— Municipality and Town —
	Park in Požarevac
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Location of the municipality of Požarevac within Serbia
	Coordinates: 44°37′N 21°11′E / 44.617°N 21.183°E
Country	Serbia
District	Braničevo
Settlements	27
	Government
• Mayor	Miodrag Milosavljević (DS - Demokratska stranka)
	Population (2011 census)
• Town	42,963
• Municipality	74,902
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	12000
Area code	+381 12
Car plates	PO
Website	www.pozarevac.rs

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Požarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац, pronounced [pɔ̂ʒaːrɛʋat͡s]) is a city in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative centre of the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the city had a population of 42,963 and the municipality 74,070.

[edit] Name

In Serbian, the city is known as Požarevac (Пожаревац), in Romanian as Pojarevaţ or Podu Lung, in Turkish as Pasarofça, in German as Passarowitz, and in Hungarian as Pozsarevác.

The name means "fire-town" in Serbian (Here "fire" is in the sense of a disaster).

[edit] History

It was known as Margus in Latin after the Roman conquest in the first century BC; it was inhabited by Thracians, Dacians and Celts. Nearby Viminacium (Kostolac) was the provincial capital of Moesia Superior, of which Margus was part (Kostolac is now a town in the municipality).

In 435, the city, still known as Margus under the Eastern Roman Empire, was the site of a treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Hun leaders Attila and Bleda. One pretext for the Hun invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire in 442 was that the Bishop of Margus had crossed the Danube to ransack and desecrate the royal Hun graves on the north bank of the Danube. When the Romans discussed handing over the Bishop, he slipped away and betrayed the city to the Huns, who then sacked the city and went on to invade as far as the gates of Constantinople itself.

In 1718, Požarevac was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Passarowitz.

[edit] Archaeology

A Bronze Age figurine "The Idol of Klicevac" was found in a grave in the village of Kličevac; it was destroyed during World War I.^[2]

The National Museum in Belgrade and Požarevac has some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 are of gold and silver. Among them are many invaluable rarities.

In June 2008, a Triballian (Thracian) grave was found with ceramics (urns). These date from the first millennium BC.^[3]

[edit] Municipalities and settlements

The city of Požarevac includes two municipalities:

These include the following settlements:

In the 2008 reform of Serbian local government, Požarevac received the status of a city and the town of Kostolac became the seat of the second city municipality. Požarevac is the smallest Serbian city consisting of two municipalities.

[edit] Population through history

During the time of the Principality of Serbia, Požarevac was among the largest cities (after Belgrade, Niš, Kragujevac and Leskovac). Losses during World War I and World War II resulted in a net decline of the population.