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 and municipality in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the city has total population of 42,963, while the municipality had 74,070 inhabitants.

[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.

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

[edit] History

It was known as Margus in Latin after the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC; it was inhabited by Thracians, Dacians and Celtics. Nearby Viminacium (Kostolac) was the provincial capital of Moesia Superior, of which Margus was part of (Kostolac is now a town in the municipality).

The city, still known as Margus under the Eastern Roman Empire, was the site of the treaty between the Hun leaders Attila and Bleda and the Byzantine Empire (435 AD). In the Huns' invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire in 442, one pretext was the assertion that that the Bishop of Margus had crossed the Danube to ransack and desecrate the royal Hun graves on the Danube's north bank. When the Romans discussed handing over the offending Bishop, he slipped away secretly to the Huns and betrayed the city to them. The Huns sacked the city and went on to an invasion up to the gates of Constantinople itself.

On a far later time, this was also the site of the signing the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718).

[edit] Archaeology

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

The National Museum in Belgrade and Pozarevac kept some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 made of gold and silver. Among them are many objects that represent the European and world rarities invaluable.

In June 2008, a Triballian (Thracian) grave was found together with ceramics (urns), dating from 1st millennium BC.^[3]

[edit] Municipality

Municipality of Požarevac includes the following settlements:

In the 2008 reform of Serbian local government, Požarevac received 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 time of the Principality of Serbia,Požarevac was among the largest cities (after Belgrade,Niš,Kragujevac and Leskovac). After World War I and World War II population declined because of the war losses.