Banovo brdo
Banovo brdo ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бановом брдо ; Serbian for Bans Hill) is a district in the Čukarica district in the Serbian capital Belgrade . The district has 5,887 inhabitants (as of 2002). In the middle of the 19th century, Matija Ban , a Serbian writer and diplomat and the most famous representative of the Serbian Catholics from Dubrovnik , built a property on the hill of the place, which was called Banovac . After the urbanization of the area progressed, the place was named Banovo brdo . During the First World War , the fallen Serbian soldiers were buried in the cemetery in the adjacent Košutnjak Park . Field Marshal General August von Mackensen had an obelisk set up with the inscription “Here rest Serbian heroes” out of respect for the Serbian defenders of Belgrade . The district is also the seat of the football club FK Čukarički , which plays in the country's highest league.
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- ↑ Ivo Banac: The Confessional Rule and the Dubrovnik Exception: The Origins of the Serb-Catholic Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia .
Coordinates: 44 ° 46 ′ 33 ″ N , 20 ° 25 ′ 6 ″ E