Kaluđerica

Kaluđerica
Country	Serbia
Population  (2011)
• Total	26,904
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Kaluđerica (Serbian Cyrillic: Калуђерица, pronounced [kalud͜ʑěrit͜sa]) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Zvezdara, and is an urban extension of Zvezdara.

Location

Kaluđerica is located 6 kilometres east of central Belgrade (44.75° North, 20.57° East), and stretches in two fork-like urban formations between the road of Smederevski put to the north and the Belgrade-Niš highway to the south. The settlement is built in the hollow (micro valley of the Kaluđerički potok creek), with a specific microclimate, so out of all parts of Belgrade Kaluđerica is often the foggiest and the first one to have snow in winter. In modern Serbian, word kaluđerica means a nun, though the name was probably derived from the word kaluđer which means a monk (kaluđerica - a monk's place).

Living conditions

A significant part of the settlement of 100,000 is built without any permits and plans. Kaluđerica lacks sewage infrastructure or and has poor transportation (short and bending streets, with only one straight street in the settlement, and two bus lines of the public transportation, 309 and 301N).

Neighborhoods

As Kaluđerica rapidly developed, several distinct sub-neighborhoods within the settlement were formed. Those to the north, along the Smederevski put, are mostly named after the kafanas which had been the only features on the road before the settlement expanded.

• Čardak; easternmost extension of Kaluđerica, which extends from the neighborhood Tri Tiganja to the west and continues into the settlement of Leštane to the east and Radmilovac, across the road. Along and above the Smederevski put, it was named after kafana of the same name (Template:Lang-tr, meaning "summerhouse").
• Klenak; western extension. It is the highest part of the settlement, on the hill above, with a beautiful view on the rest of Kaluđerica. Klenak extends from Stara Kaluđerica, settlements old core to the east and stretches along the highway, with its western part in Zvezdara municipality, as the extension of Mali Mokri Lug. A bridge over the highway connects Klenak and Mali Mokri Lug with Veliki Mokri Lug, which expanded on the other side of the highway.
• Moravac; north-west extension, the closest part to Belgrade. Northern sections of the neighborhood, along the Smederevski put, are administratively part of the municipality of Zvezdara. It extends into the neighborhood of Mali Mokri Lug to the west, Novo Naselje to the east and Stara Kaluđerica to the south. Named after kafana of the same name (meaning "man from Morava").
• Novo Naselje; as the name suggests ("new settlement") is a new, rapidly developing and mostly commercial zone along the Smederevski put. It is located between the neighborhoods of Moravac (to the west), Tri Tiganja (to the east) and Stara Kaluđerica (to the south).
• Stara Kaluđerica (old Kaluđerica), the oldest core of the settlement, further to the south from the main road. Mostly located along the Vojvode Stepe Stepanovića street.
• Tri Tiganja; north-central section. It is an area where road which leads to the Belgrade city dump and the Nuclear Institute "Vinča" separates from the Smederevski put. There is a developing commercial zone along the road and the crossroads. It was named after kafana of the same name (meaning "three frying pans").
• Donja Kaluđerica; biggest part of this place. There are two elementary schools, IDEA and Maxi shops, community health center, kindergarten, and police station.

Famous residents

Serbian folk singer Mira Škorić is born in Kaluđerica. Serbian singer Sandra Afrika is born in Kaluđerica.

References

• Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6