Zaječar
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Zaječar Град Зајечар Saitchar |
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| City of Zaječar | ||
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 Location of the municipality of Zaječar within Serbia |
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| Coordinates: 43°55′N 22°18′E / 43.917°N 22.300°ECoordinates: 43°55′N 22°18′E / 43.917°N 22.300°E | ||
| Country |
 Serbia
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| Region | Southern and Eastern Serbia | |
| District | Zaječar | |
| Settlements | 41 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Velimir Ognjanović (SNS) | |
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| • Municipality | 1,069 km2 (413 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011 census) | ||
| • Town | 43,860 | |
| • Municipality | 59,461 | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 19000 | |
| Area code | +381 19 | |
| Car plates | ZA | |
| Website | www |
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Zaječar (Serbian Cyrillic: Зајечар pronounced [zâjɛtʃar], Romanian: Zaicear) is a city and the administrative center of the Zaječar District in eastern Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 59,461. Zaječar has a number of primary and secondary schools as well as the first private college established in Serbia, the Faculty of Management Megatrend University. Zaječar is widely known for its rock music festival Gitarijada which has existed for more than 40 years and for the festival dedicated to contemporary art, ZALET.
In Serbian, the town is known as Zaječar (Зајечар); in Romanian as Zăiicer (archaic name), Zăiceri, Zăicear or Zăiceari; in Macedonian as Заечар and in Bulgarian as Зайчар (Zajčar).
The origin of the name is from the Torlak dialect name for "hare" = zajec / зајец (in all other Serbian dialects it is zec / зец, while in Bulgarian it is "заек / zaek"). It means "the man who breeds and keeps hares".
Folk etymology in Romanian/Vlach, gives "Zāiicer" as meaning "the Gods are asking (for sacrifice)".
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