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Introducing Kragujevac

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   Welcome to Kragujevac !!

   The City of Kragujevac is the administrative, political, economic, educational and also cultural hub of the District of Sumadija, as well as the surrounding neighborhood Districts. Kragujevac has a population of about 300.000. The City is situated in the center of Sumadija and Pomoravlje, at 140 km south of Belgrade, by the highway E 10. 

   Kragujevac covers an area of about 835 square kilometers, and lies in the slopes of the Rudnik, Gledic and Crni Vrh Mountains. Lepenica river runs beautifully through the city center. There are many rivers that link Kragujevac with the District of Pomoravlje, and create heavily trafficked international transportation routes.

   Kragujevac is located at a crossroads. It has been devastated many times and has suffered great losses of life in a number of wars during history. Kragujevac began to prosper later in 1818, only when Prince Milos Obrenovic proclaimed it the capital of the new Serbian State, and that's how began to lay the first foundations of Serbia.

   The first Serbian Constitution was proclaimed in this city in 1835 and also the first idea of the independent electoral democracy. Kragujevac, as a capital, was developing and cherishing modern, progressive and free ideas and resembled many European capitals of that time of the history.  Also, Kragujevac became the cultural and educational center of the state. Most important institutions built were: The First Grammar School, the first Pharmacy, and the first printing press. Kragujevac is the city that gave rise to many international scholars, professors, academics, scientists, artists and statesmen. The City has a rich cultural and historical heritage, so that many cultural, educational and scientific institutions were founded between years 1818 and 1841, when Kragujevac was the seat of the Principality of Serbia: "Gimnazija" -First Grammar School in Serbia, also "Knjazevsko-Serbski Teatar"-First Theatre in Serbia. These institutions continue to promote cultural activities nowadays in modern Serbia. Theater "Joakim Vujic" was founded in 1835, National Library "Vuk Karadzic" (1866), Cultural and Artistic Group "Abrasevic" (1904).

   

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