Smederevo

Smederevo Град Смедерево
City
City of Smederevo
Coat of arms
Location of the city of Smederevo within Serbia
Coordinates: 44°40′N 20°56′E / 44.667°N 20.933°E / 44.667; 20.933Coordinates: 44°40′N 20°56′E / 44.667°N 20.933°E / 44.667; 20.933
Country	Serbia
Region	Southern and Eastern Serbia
District	Podunavlje
Settlements	28
Government
• Mayor	Jasna Avramović (PZS)
Area
• Administrative	484 km2 (187 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)
• Rank	11th
• Urban	64,175
• Administrative	108,209
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	11300 11303 11304 11305 11330
Area code	+381 26
Car plates	SD
Website	www.smederevo.org.rs

Smederevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Смедерево, pronounced [smêderevo]) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) downstream of the capital, Belgrade. According to official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 64,105, and 108,209 people live in its administrative area.

Its history starts in the 1st century BC, with the conquerings of the Roman Empire, when there existed a town called Vinceia. The modern city traces its roots back to the late Middle Ages when it was the capital (1430–39, and 1444–59) of the last independent Serbian state before the Ottoman conquest.

In Serbian, the city is known as Smederevo (Смедерево), in Latin, Romanian and Greek as Semendria, in Hungarian as Szendrő or Vég-Szendrő, in Turkish as Semendire.

The name of Smederevo was first recorded in the Charter of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II from 1019, in the part related to the Eparchy of Braničevo in Ohrid Bishopry. Another written record is found in the Charter of the Duke Lazar from 1381, by which he bestowed the Monastery of Ravanica and villages and properties ’to the Great Bogosav with the commune and heritage’’.

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