Grabovica (Kladovo)

Грабовица Grabovica
The Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas
Basic data
State :	Serbia
Okrug :	boron
Opština :	Kladovo
Coordinates :	44 ° 30 ′  N , 22 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  N , 22 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	55  m. i. J.
Residents :	709 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+381) 019
Postal code :	19327
License plate :	KL
Structure and administration
Community type:	Village

Grabovica ( Cyrillic : Грабовица) is a village in Opština Kladovo and in the Bor district in eastern Serbia . The village name is derived from the Serbian word for hornbeam (Serbian grave).

In the village there is a primary school, a Serbian Orthodox Church and a memorial to the fallen partisans in World War II .

geography

Grabovica lies on the right bank of the Danube . The place is located about 19 km southwest of the municipality capital Kladovo. The neighboring village of Velesnica is around 6 km away.

Residents

The 2002 census (self-named) showed that 880 people live in the village. Of which were:

	number	percent
total	880	100
Serbs	828	94.09
Wallachians	31	3.52
Romanians	11	1.25
Croatians	1	0.11
Unknown	9	1.02

Other censuses:

• 1948: 1.916
• 1953: 2.058
• 1961: 2.083
• 1971: 2.155
• 1981: 2,242
• 1991: 2.051

religion

The inhabitants of Grabovica belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas is in the village .

swell

1. ↑ Overall result of the census of April 2002 (English) ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 379 kB)