Grocka
municipality of Belgrade, Serbia
Grocka (Serbian Cyrillic: Гроцка, pronounced [ɡrǒtskaː]) or Grocka na Dunavu (Serbian Cyrillic: Гроцка на Дунаву, lit. 'Grocka on Danube') is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has 82,810 inhabitants.
Location and geography
The municipality is located east of Belgrade, in the northern part of Šumadija region, with the northern section being part of the Podunavlje macro-region in the valley of the Danube, while the southern section is located around the valley of the Ralja River, which is a tributary to the Velika Morava's arm of Jezava. With an altitude of 71 meters above sea level, the town of Grocka is one of the lowest parts of Belgrade. Other rivers in the municipality are Bolečica and Gročica. Being polluted, by 2019 the environmentalists described both rivers as "less of a watercourses, more of a sewage watersheds".
History
During the late Ottoman period, there existed the Belgrade nahiya and Grocka nahiya. The Belgrade nahiya included the knežine (Serb self-governing village groups) of Posavina and Kolubara, while the Grocka nahiya included the knežine of Podunavlje and Kosmaj. They were all united into a single Belgrade nahiya which became the Belgrade okrug with the Gročanski srez (srez of Grocka) and Vračarski srez (srez of Vračar).
The municipality of Grocka became part of the wider Belgrade City area in 1955.
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