Robin Biznis October 18.2018 Belgrade
It was beautifully sunny Sunday morning. We visited a zoo garden in Belgrade with a young daughter and her children. This came about with the fact that one day newspaper two days earlier printed a free ticket for children. I bought two newspapers and so the children had tickets. Zoo garden is located on the slope of the hill known as Kalemegdan.
Quote: How Kalemegdan got its name. The Turks conquered Belgrade in 1459 and were, more or less, under their authority until April 6, 1867, when, at the place where now is the main Kalemegdan trail, they ceremoniously handed over the keys of the city to Prince Michael. Even today, although 137 years have passed since the Turks left, many parts of the city still bear old, Turkish names: Dorćol, Tasmajdan, Karaburma, Kalemegdan, Sava (h) small, Bulbuder …What does the word Kalemegdan mean? Kale is the Turkish name for the fortress, the citadel (Adakale, Demirkale), and the megdan, or the meyddan is the Arabic word for the spacious field, the larger empty space in the city, the square, the fare, the market, and the place where the duel is conducted. In her book on Belgrade, Miljana Laketic calls another author who mentions that this hill had another unusual name. Namely, the Turks called Kalemegdan and Ficir Bayir, which means “a hole for thinking” …Many times through the centuries it has been upgraded, demolished and rebuilt, conquered, liberated, razed, there were Singles, Romans, Lombards, Huns, Avars, Slavs, Byzantines, Uragii, Bulgarians, Serbs, Habsburgs, Turks, Germans … and it can be said with utmost that the history of Belgrade is, in fact, the history of Kalemegdan.
If we had time to open the gardens of the zoo, we walked through it and told the children a bit about the history of the city to which the villagers are. I hope you like the photos of Belgrade and Kalemegdan.
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Interesting information and lovely photo.
Pamela, you are also so kind and a great example.
I am used to mountains. They don’t seem to be here!