Aleksinac

Алексинац Aleksinac
Basic data
State :	Serbia
Okrug :	Nišava
Coordinates :	43 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 32 '30 "  N , 21 ° 42' 28"  E
Residents :	17,171 (2002)
Telephone code :	(+381) +381
Postal code :	18220
License plate :	AL (since August 2010)
Structure and administration
Mayor :	Nenad Stanković ( SRS )
Website :	www.aleksinac.org

Aleksinac (Serbian Алексинац  [ aˈɫɛksinat͡s ] ) is a town and municipality in Serbia in the Nišava district . The city has 17,171 inhabitants and the municipality 57,749 (2002 census).

The village of Aleksinac was mentioned for the first time in 1516 in a list of Ottoman settlements in Sanjak Kruševac. According to a legend, the name of the city is probably derived from the owner of a coffee house called Aleks.

The Moravica and Južna Morava rivers flow through the town . The nearby Bovan reservoir is used to supply the region with water.

Towns and villages of the municipality

Aleksinac Aleksinački Bujmir Aleksinački Rudnik Bankovac Beli Breg Belja Bobovište Bovan Bradarac Vac Veliki Drenovac Vitkovac Vrelo Vrćenovica Vukanja

Vukašinovac Glogovica Golešnica Gornja Peščanica Gornje Suhotno Gornji Adrovac Gornji Krupac Gornji Ljubeš Gredetin Grejač Dašnica Deligrad Dobrujevac Donja Peščanica Donje Suhotno

Donji Adrovac Donji Krupac Donji Ljubeš Draževac Žitkovac Jakovlje Jasenje Kamenica Katun Koprivnica Korman Kraljevo Krušje Kulina Lipovac

Loznac Loćika Lužane Ljupten Mali Drenovac Mozgovo Moravac Moravski Bujmir Nozrina Porodin Prekonozi Prćilovica Prugovac Radevce Rsovac

Rutevac Srezovac Stanci Stublina Subotinac Tešica Trnjane Ćićina Crna Bara Česta Čukurovac Šurić

Twin cities

• Eana , Greece
• Hisarya , Bulgaria
• Lavris , Greece
• Patras , Greece
• Sampolitio , Greece
• Verona , Greece
• Zagorje ob Savi , Slovenia

Sons and daughters of the place

• Dragoslav Mihajlović (1906–1978), football player