Location of Surčin within
Belgrade
Map of Surčin municipality
Surčin (Serbian Cyrillic:
Сурчин) is a suburban settlement (town)
and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade
, the capital of Serbia
.
The most
important feature is the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
which is located in this Belgrade's youngest
municipality, as it split from the municipality of Zemun
in
2003. Surčin municipality has 38,695 residents while Surčin
town itself has 14,292.
Town
Location
Surčin is
located in the eastern Syrmia
region, 20
kilometers west of downtown Belgrade.
It is just
south of the Belgrade-Zagreb
highway, on
a Belgrade beltway which, when
finished in 2011, will bypass the heavy traffic from the Belgrade's
urban core to the city's southern outskirts (for now, it is the
only case among European capitals that highway passes right through
the city) . The Syrmian section of the beltway however is
already built and operational.
Population
Surčin and the majority of the settlements in the municipality are
growing fast.
Though it has no urban connection with
Belgrade on the east (that is, Novi Beograd
's westernmost neighborhood of Ledine
through
which it is connected to the city), an urban zone is slowly
developing along that road, turning Belgrade and Surčin into one
continuous built-up area. Similar process develops on all sides of
Surčin which, with the growth of population, grows into one urban
area with Dobanovci
(north), Jakovo
(south) and
Bečmen
(west).
Population of the town of Surčin according to the official
censuses:
- 1921 - 3,250
- 1931 - 3,502
- 1961 - 6,160
- 1971 - 10,550
- 1981 - 12,575
- 1991 - 11,826
- 2002 - 14,292
Ethnic structure of the town (2002 census)
History
The area of the town was settled through the most of the early
human history. Being an old settlement, findings from prehistoric
times are quite common. So far, it is established that a previous
settlements existed in the
neolithic,
bronze age,
stone
age and
Roman era.
Municipality
Location
Municipality of Surčin is located west of the Belgrade, in the
eastern part of the Syrmia region.
It borders the municipalities of Zemun
(north) and Novi
Beograd (east). Entire western border of the municipality is
the administrative border of the province of Vojvodina
while the Sava river formes the
border to the municipalities of Čukarica
(south-east) and Obrenovac
(south).
Geography
The area of the municipality is flat and marshy as the entire
southern section belongs to the
floodplain of the Sava.
Numerous smaller
streams (mostly channeled) flow through the municipality, most
notably the Galovica and Jarčina
.
Other distinct geographical features are the ponds of
Fenek and
Živača, a
large woody area od Bojčin (Serbian:
Bojčinska šuma) and
Progarska ada, one of the largest
islands in the Sava.
Population
In period 1991 to 2002, population of the municipality grew from
35,591 to 38,695.
Majority of that growth came from the
refugees from Yugoslav Wars (mostly
Croatia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
). Since many of the refugees were integrated
into the Serbian citizenship after 2002, it is to be expected the
official number of population is much higher now.
Ethnic structure of the municipality (2002 census)
All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb
majority.
Settlements
Urban (towns):
Rural (villages):
History
Surčin was the seat of its own municipality until 1965 when it was
annexed to the municipality of Zemun (prior to that, municipalities
of Boljevci and Dobanovci were annexed to the municipality of
Surčin). A movement for splitting from Zemun was very vocal since
the 1990s and even though it did not fulfil some of the conditions
required by the Belgrade City Statute for creation of new
municipality (mainly, the population of over 50,000), Belgrade City
assembly voted to detach Surčin from Zemun (officially on
November 24,
2003) but the
newly formed municipality remained under the administration of the
municipality of Zemun until next municipal elections and finally
got its own administration on
November 3,
2004. However, municipal administration and the
overall political situation in Surčin is highy unstable ever
since.
President of the local community of Surčin:
Presidents of the municipality:
Economy
The majority of population is into the agriculture. Extensive farms
for the pig breeding are located in Surčin itself while in the
smaller settlements the production is mostly for the Belgrade's
market ("suburban agriculture" - fruits, early vegetables,
etc).
The most
important facility is the Belgrade Nikola Tesla airport, opened on
April 28, 1962, instead
of the old one in Bežanija
. The new and modern airport put the small
village on the map. The aeronautics museum is also located in the
airport's complex.
The
Belgrade-Zagreb highway
passes through the municipality and also a beltway which continues
through the Belgrade's southern outskirts The Syrmian section of
the beltway (which separates from the highway at Dobanovci, then
goes Surčin-Jakovo-Ostružnica
) is already built and operational. An
internal Belgrade's freight railway goes parallel to the
beltway.
See also
See also
References
- Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985);
Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski
leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN
86-01-02651-6
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