Velika Plana Municipality
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Velika Plana Велика Плана | |||
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| Town and municipality | |||
 Administration building
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 Location of the municipality of Velika Plana within Serbia | |||
| Coordinates: 44°20′N 21°05′E / 44.333°N 21.083°ECoordinates: 44°20′N 21°05′E / 44.333°N 21.083°E | |||
| Country |
 Serbia
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| Region | Southern and Eastern Serbia | ||
| District | Podunavlje | ||
| Settlements | 13 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Igor Matkovic | ||
| • President of the Municipal Assembly | Dalibor Todorovic | ||
| Area | |||
| • Municipality | 345 km2 (133 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 123 m (404 ft) | ||
| Population (2011 census) | |||
| • Town | 16,078 | ||
| • Municipality | 40,578 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 11320 | ||
| Area code | +381(0)26 | ||
| Car plates | VP | ||
| Website |
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Velika Plana (Serbian Cyrillic: Велика Плана, pronounced [ʋêlikaː plǎːna]) is a town and municipality located in the Podunavlje District of Serbia. As of 2011, the population of the municipality is 40,578 (i.e. in the town proper, 16,078 inhabitants).
It lies on the left bank of Velika Morava, at a distance of 4 kilometres (2 miles) from the town centre.
Except for the very centre of town, Velika Plana is stretched alongside major roads for miles. Officially it is composed of three townships: Town Mains, Stari Odbor (the Old Downtown), and Bresje. Town Mains is further subdivided into neighbourhoods of Centar, Đurakovac, Kod Železničke (Railway Station area), Gloža-Ciglana (Brick factory area) where a tiny Morava river village has been reconstructed, and Magareća Glava (Donkey Head). There is also a satellite so-called weekend settlement (vikend naselje) next to the Pokajnica monastery between Velika Plana, Staro Selo and Radovanje.
In the center of the town is a quaint town park. The town also has few smaller parks.
At the outskirts of the town are three important ecclesiastical monuments: the early 15th century Koporin Monastery where Despot Stefan Lazarević, son of Prince Lazar of the Battle of Kosovo is buried; the early 19th century Pokajnica Monastery built as a sign of repentance (Serbian: pokajanje/покајање) by the murderer of Karađorđe, leader of the First Serbian Uprising and the founder of the Karađorđević royal family of Serbia and later Yugoslavia; as well as a small church built by King Alexander Karađorđević of Yugoslavia at the exact place of his ancestor's murder.
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