History Class - Belgrade 100 years ago and now

City that is bigger and bigger every day!

About 100 ago, Belgrade was small trade center, and capital, with 80,000 inhabitants. Since Serbian population mostly lived in villages, cities couldn't be so big.

Before World war 2, 80% of Serbs lived in villages, after it when communism and heavy industrialism came, 80%  of Serbs moved to cities, so they grew very very fast. So did Belgrade, it practically ate surrounding settlements like Ovcha, Borcha and others.

When Belgrade became Yugoslav capital, factories, trade stations, Nikola Tesla, airport, roads were built.

Migrations to Belgrade from all over Balkans started, mostly from Yugoslavian peripheral areas, like mountains.
Education in all socialistic states was on high level, so was in Belgrade. Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences and Belgrade University are highly prestigious universities. In Belgrade university students from around the world were coming to study.
Atelje 212 (Атеље 212) is a theatre in Belgrade, biggest in whole ex-yu, so you can imagine how cultural level was high.It was funded in 1956.

City soon had about million inhabitants, and it needed more houses and all other sorts of buildings for people to live and for work.
In that moment, starts biggest expansion of Belgrade - building new part of city across the other side of the Sava river - New Belgrade.(Also known as Blocks)
There are over 70 blocks, and last constructions were over in 1947.This is today most populous municipality in city.
Fast development, planned building and of course a lots of people made this part of city so important today.

Today we have many shoppping malls such as "Delta City" and "Usce" where you can find all popular brands like Nike, Adidas, Gucci, Armani, Samsung, Sony, Apple...
These shopping malls are huge, Usce shopping mall for example is on 4 floors and has a part for dinning, entertainment, shopping, car parking and many other features.

Wrong opinion about Serbia and Belgrade

Since our blog is pretty much visited by visitor from USA and GB which i want to greet and thank for reading.I want to educate people that things they see on television are absolutely false and just unnecessary propaganda against my beautiful country and city.
Serbia is very old culture in middle of Balkan peninsula. It was mentioned in old scriptures about 1300 years ago!
First ancient houses appeared in Vincha(north Belgrade) 4800 years before Christ. First city name was Singidunum and it was funded by Romans,  3 centuries BC.
When Serbs populated Belgrade, they renamed it in Beograd, which if we would transalte it directly would mean WHITE-CITY(BEO-GRAD).
Politics which i don't want to talk about too much is largely responsible for global wrong opinion about or culture, people, and everything.
My people are aware of how old our culture and traditions are, and therefore do not allow any foreign interference, which produces a bad relationships between Serbia and other countries.
First question that you will ask, i'm sure is: Are Serbia and Belgrade even safe?
-Because of bad propaganda and all incorrect things you heard, it's quite normal to ask that question. My family lives here about 150 years, and they never had any problems.Crime is on low level and demonstrations are not constant..All things you hear are rumors.
Why would we travel to Belgrade, there are more interesting places?
People that come to Belgrade, never come once..they always come back, why? Because of all things i mentioned in earlier posts and because all things i'll mention in future, all theaters, concerts, parties, movies, good people, cultural heritage, exquisite music, and all positive things they have been to.
Once again, thank you all people who read my blog, i hope you will continue! :)
It is about a month i run this blog with my friend, and i hope that we will progress more.