Padinska Skela

Падинска Скела Padinska Skela
Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	City of Belgrade, Palilula municipality
Location:	44.94 N, 20.43 E
Population:	100
Area code:	+381(0)11
Postal code:	11213
License plates:	BG

Padinska Skela (Serbian Cyrillic: Падинска Скела) or colloquially Padinjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Падињак), is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Padinska Skela is located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality, 15 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade, on the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin, in Vojvodina. It is built right in the middle of the Pančevački Rit, major floodplain between the rivers of Danube and Tamiš.

The settlement originates from the late 1940s when melioration of Pančevački Rit began. The settlement became important immediately, being in the center of the area which was turned from marshy floodplain into a very fertile arable land for the PKB company. It was part of the municipality of Borča until May 30, 1952, when it became seat of its own municipality. In 1955 merged into the municipality of Krnjača which, in turn, became part of the municipality of Palilula in 1965.

Originally the settlement grew slowly, as many smaller settlements were scattered all over the Pančevački Rit, growing around the solitary and outer farms. In the 1970s however, most of those settlements were administratively merged into the central one, Padinska Skela, even though some of them are kilometers away from it and separated by vast fields. As a result of this administrative measures, the population of Padinska Skela apparently boomed, but almost right away began experiencing depopulation. Population of Padinska Skela according to the official censuses:

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