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Walk through Belgrade , visits Kalemegdan Fortress

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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Confluence of two rivers

Here you see the mouth of the two rivers.

That's why Belgrade was especially interesting for many conquerors.

It was at the confluence of the two rivers which was of enormous importance to every nation that would live in such a place.

Panorama Belgrade

The panorama of Belgrade viewed from the fortress Kalemegdan.

  1. From the top of the fortress Kalemegdan you can see a small part of southern Belgrade and on the right side of the beginning of Novi Boegrad, which lies in the western part of Belgrade.
    And of course, the Sava River that reaches the point where it flows into the Danube

Monument to the winner

My younger daughter, Sofia, chose this place for posing.

  1. This monument is called “The Victory”. It has a burning past and moved to several places in the city.
    Now it’s at Kalemegdan.
    For you more information”
    Qoute:The history of building and building the monument lasted from 1913 to 1928, although the first ideas originated in 1912, when the victory in the First Balkan War opened up proposals for the erection of monuments in Belgrade in honor of the final victory over the Turks. President of the Municipality of Belgrade Ljubomir Davidovic and city leaders in August 1913 make a decision to mark this great historical event by raising the Victory Monument.
    Source:https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Победник_(споменик)
    Note: Time of origin 1928.year..

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    • I thank you too. I learned that people like to read and watch foreign places from us.
      So there will be more such texts and pictures ..
      After Kalemegdan we went to the zoo garden.
      It will be published soon.
      Only you are much better and bigger,
      But you will have the opportunity to see the reports about the town in the picture and the word.
      Thank you again.

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