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14 unusual facts about Belgrade


1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships

The 1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships was the first edition of the championships and were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from 21-24 June 1953.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Courtois, Missouri

Its post office is closed and mail now comes from Steelville or Belgrade.

Direktori

During the same year, on April, they entered the finals of the Palilula Culture Olympics (POK) and in June the band performed at the students protest and on the Vidovdan gathering.

Dušan Mitević

He resigned from the post following the violent March 1991 Belgrade protests which had been organized by opposition parties against the increasingly propagandist content of state-controlled media.

From 1989 to 1991 he was director of Radio Television Belgrade (RTB, later renamed Radio Television of Serbia in 1992), Serbia's public broadcaster, during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ascent to power of Slobodan Milošević.

International Radio of Serbia

From 1951, the foreign program for the world had been broadcast through Stubline Transmission Center, located in the vicinity of Belgrade, and a new center beside Bijeljina (the Republika Srpska) was completed in 1987.

Između dva zla

The first, the second and the partially the third part were recorded live at the Belgrade SKC, on September 11, 1999.

Japan–Montenegro relations

Japan is represented in Montenegro through a non-resident ambassador based in Belgrade.

Joy of Europe

The annual event takes place in Belgrade, Serbia with 30 European nations showcasing their culture through dance and music.

Kumanovska Banja

The first registered analysis of the water was in 1920 by Aleksej Scherbakov in the State Laboratory in Belgrade.

Marin Studin

In 1929 he married to Ivan Meštrović's sister and ten years later was appointed as a professor at the Academy of Art in Belgrade.

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac

He died suddenly of a heart attack on April 5, 1873, and was buried in the family tomb of Jevrem Obrenović in Rakovica.

Sebastian Shaumyan

"Brilliant world-famous linguist deserves tenure," came an admirably unambiguous cable from Belgrade.


117th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment remained at Pula in 1948, but that same year it moved to Cerklje, where it was to remain until 1949 when it was moved to Zemun, with the new task of defending the capital city Belgrade.

2008 Kosovo declaration of independence

On 23 February, 44 protesters were arrested after burning the Serbian flag, in the main square of Zagreb (Croatia), following Serb protesters attacking the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

Aleksandar Maćašev

He moved to Belgrade in 1991 to attend the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1998.

Belgrade Synagogue

There is one other surviving synagogue building in the Belgrade area, located in the town of Zemun.

Bjelasica

It has the advantage of being easily accessible, as town of Kolašin is situated on both main road from Podgorica to Serbia and on Belgrade–Bar railway.

Boško Abramović

Best results: 1st at Lugano 1981; 1st at Pamporovo 1982; 1st at Reykjavík 1982; 1st at Vrnjacka Banja 1983; 1st at Niš 1983; 1st at Belgrade 1984; 1st at Linz 1984; 1st at Paris 1985; 2nd at Montpellier 1986; 1st at Berlin 1990; 1st at Oberwart 1990; 1st at Kladovo 1993; 1st at Bela Crkva 1995; 2nd in the Serbian chess championship 2006.

Božidar Petranović

By the early twentieth century, this led to the founding of a Department of World Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade; its first professor was Svetomir Nikolajević, later Professor in the School of Philology at the University of Belgrade.

Branislav Nušić

4. Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti / A History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921) pages 424-426

Clisura Dunării

Miodrag Belodedici (born 1964), Romanian retired footballer, won the European cup with Steaua Bucureşti and Red Star Belgrade (1985, 1990).

Dimitrije Nešić

Dimitrije Nešić (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 20 October 1836 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 9 May 1904) was mathematician and president of the Serbian Royal Academy.

Dragan Veselinov

On Tuesday April 15, 2003 around 9:40am, government-issued Mitsubishi Pajero SUV driven by Stevan Bakalov with Veselinov and his bodyguard on the back seat and rotation lights turned on was heading down Beogradska Street towards Slavija Square in downtown Belgrade.

Dragomir Čumić

Dragomir Čumić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгомир Чумић) also known as Drago Čuma (8 May 1937 in Sirač near Daruvar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - 10 November 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian actor.

Dušan Muc

He graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1975 and has since worked as a costume designer, art teacher and illustrator.

E-novine

Editorial office drew a dozen of junior editors and journalists from Belgrade, in addition to contributors from the entire region of Balkans such as Emir Imamović, Andrej Nikolaidis, Filip David, Mirko Kovač, Vladimir Arsenić, Nenad Veličković, Dženana Karabegović, Ljubomir Živkov and many others.

Frane Matošić

He twice refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring of Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan"

Haris Brkić

One year later he returned to Belgrade, beginning the 1993–94 season with the Partizan first team led by the also newly arrived head coach Željko Lukajić.

Heino Kurvet

He won a bronze medal in the K-4 10,000 m event at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.

Humanitarian Law Center

In April 2008 the submission of evidence by HLC about war crimes committed in Lovas, Croatia, led to the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber began the trial of 14 indictees for their alleged role in the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the first war crimes trial of former Yugoslav National Army officers.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

Iskre

During January and February 1966 they performed at Belgrade Gitarijada (not to be confused with Zaječar Gitarijada) where they won the fifth place.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

İzmir Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Jelena Genčić

Parallel to sports, she graduated art history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transformed into Radio Television of Serbia.

Josef Schulz

On 20 July 1941, a Wehrmacht firing squad executed sixteen Yugoslav partisans within the barracks of Smederevska Palanka, southeast of Belgrade.

Jovan Bijelić

Jovan Bijelić (Cyrillic Јован Бијелић) (Kolunić near Bosanski Petrovac, June 30, 1884 or June 19, 1886 - Belgrade, March 12, 1964) was a Serbian painter, one of the most important Yugoslav visual artists between the world wars.

Maia Chiburdanidze

She was 1st in tournaments in New Delhi (1984) and Banja Luka (1985) and in the next decade she finished 1st in Belgrade (1992), Vienna (1993) and in Lippstadt (1995).

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Miško Šuvaković

He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade, 1982–1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad, 1995–1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).

Montenegrin mafia

On September 10, 2009 Montenegrin businessman Branislav Šaranović was shot to death outside of his apartment in Belgrade.Although mainly residing in Budva, Montenegro, Branislav owned a casino in Belgrade made close ties to Brano Mićunović and Milo Đukanović.

Monument to the Unknown Hero

Several prominent historians from Belgrade and Sarajevo have claimed that the unknown hero is a Bosniak named Sulejman Balić, a soldier from Duga Poljana, a town between Novi Pazar and Sjenica, that fought in the Serbian army against Austria-Hungary.

Odjila

Odjila was the first popular music band which had a concert in Kolarac hall in Belgrade, and the first band which played in Maribor theatre, ever since it was founded in the late 19th century.

Ognjen Petrović

Ognjen "Olja" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњен Петровић) (2 January 1948 in Kruševac, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia – 21 September 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian goalkeeper who played at Euro 76 for SFR Yugoslavia.

Pavle Bulatović

The shooting took place at a restaurant in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica and Bulatović later died at a military hospital.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Port of Bar

The announced building of Belgrade–Bar motorway and proposed reconstruction of Belgrade - Bar railway would thus mark a breakthrough in attracting the Serbian, and thus the Central European market.

Radnička Kontrola

Radnička Kontrola (Serbian Cyrillic: Радничка Контрола, trans. Workers' Control) was a former Yugoslav punk rock/New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s and notable for its appearance on the compilation album Artistička radna akcija.

Sreten Asanović

From 1957 to 1960, he was editor-in-chief of the Titograd (Podgorica) magazine Susreti; editor for the Sarajevo magazine Oslobođenje from 1960 to 1962; first editor-in-chief of the journal Odjek from 1963 to 1965; secretary of the Commission for Culture and Art in Belgrade from 1963 to 1965, and editor-in-chief of the Titograd magazine Stvaranje from 1973 to 1989.

Subotica tram system

While neighbouring cities' trams at this date were often still horse-drawn, this gave the Subotica system an advantage over municipalities including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb, and Szeged.

Svetopolk Pivko

Svetopolk Pivko (Serbian Cyrillic: Светополк Пивко) (Maribor, Austria-Hungary, September 29, 1910 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia, October 13, 1987) was an engineer and professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, was a colonel of the Yugoslav Air Force deputy commander of JRV, the founder and the first director of the Aeronautical Technical Institute in Žarkovo.

Tesla's Letters

The play takes place in 1997, two years after Operation Storm and the Dayton Agreement and two years prior to the start of the Kosovo War and the US-led 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, with the scenes set at the Nikola Tesla Museum in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on a bus at the Serbian-Croatian border, and at Tesla's birthplace in the Croatian village of Smiljan.

Török

Bálint Török de Enying (1502–1551), Hungarian aristocrat, Ban of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) and Lord of Csesznek

Trebeništa

These finds are housed in the Archaeological Museums in Ohrid, Sofia and Belgrade.

Vojo Deretic

Vojo Deretic, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Cell Biology & Physiology at the University of New Mexico He received his undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral education in Belgrade, Paris, and Chicago.

Vruć vetar

The show follows the adventures of Šurda, a man in his mid 30s from Vlasotince who comes to Belgrade to work and get rich.

William J. Dyess

As a Foreign Service Officer, he was posted to Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1961-63; to Copenhagen 1963-65; to Moscow 1966-68; and to Berlin 1968-70.

Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League

Post-WW2 Yugoslavia was (with the exception of major cities such as Belgrade, Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Sarajevo) for the most part lacking in competitive opportunities in sports.

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).

Željko Ivanović

“This daily supported Đukanović’s government war with Slobodan Milošević, but after the Belgrade Agreement was signed in March 2002, started to be more critical towards the government in Podgorica, since the Agreement postponed the referendum on Montenegrin independence.

Zoran Đurašković

After this successful season, in the following summer he joined the new ambitious team from Belgrade, FK Železnik, a club aiming for European competition spots.