VisitSerbia.TV Beograd - Belgrade/ city tour by bus

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Published Apr 24, 2010

(EN ) Belgrade (Serbian: Београд, Beograd ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on two international waterways, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula. Likewise, the city is placed along the pan-European corridors X and VII. With a population of 1630000 (official estimate 2007), Belgrade is the largest city in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and the third largest in Southeastern Europe, after Istanbul and Athens. One of the oldest cities in Europe, with archeological finds tracing settlements as early as the 6th millennium BC, Belgrade's wider city area was the birthplace of the largest prehistoric culture of Europe, the Vinča culture. First mentioned by the Greek sources, a settlement on today's location was founded in 3rd century BC by the Celts who named it the White City, which it still bears. It was awarded city rights by the Roman before it was permanently settled by White Serbs from the 600s onwards. As a strategic location, the city was battled over in 115 wars and razed to the ground 44 times since the ancient period by countless armies of the East and West. In medieval times, it was in the possession of Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Serbian rulers. In 1521 Belgrade was conquered by the Ottomans and became the seat of the Pashaluk of Belgrade, as the principal city of Ottoman Europe and among the largest European cities. Frequently passing from Ottoman to...