Kaluđerica
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| Coordinates: 44°45′N 20°33′E / 44.750°N 20.550°E | |
| Country | Serbia |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 26,904 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Kaluđerica (Serbian Cyrillic: Калуђерица, pronounced [kalud͜ʑěrit͜sa]) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Zvezdara, and is an urban extension of Zvezdara.
Kaluđerica is located 6 kilometres east of central Belgrade (44.75° North, 20.57° East), and stretches in two fork-like urban formations between the road of Smederevski put to the north and the Belgrade-Niš highway to the south. The settlement is built in the hollow (micro valley of the Kaluđerički potok creek), with a specific microclimate, so out of all parts of Belgrade Kaluđerica is often the foggiest and the first one to have snow in winter. In modern Serbian, word kaluđerica means a nun, though the name was probably derived from the word kaluđer which means a monk (kaluđerica - a monk's place).
A significant part of the settlement of 100,000 is built without any permits and plans. Kaluđerica lacks sewage infrastructure or and has poor transportation (short and bending streets, with only one straight street in the settlement, and two bus lines of the public transportation, 309 and 301N).
As Kaluđerica rapidly developed, several distinct sub-neighborhoods within the settlement were formed. Those to the north, along the Smederevski put, are mostly named after the kafanas which had been the only features on the road before the settlement expanded.
Serbian folk singer Mira Škorić is born in Kaluđerica. Serbian singer Sandra Afrika is born in Kaluđerica.
Coordinates: 44°45′N 20°33′E / 44.750°N 20.550°E
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