Kamenica (Valjevo)

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Каменица
Kamenica
Каменица

The Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas

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Kamenica (Valjevo) (Serbia)
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Basic data
State : Serbia
Okrug : Okrug Kolubara
Opština : Valjevo
Coordinates : 44 ° 21 '  N , 19 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 20 '33 "  N , 19 ° 43' 21"  E
Height : 374  m. i. J.
Residents : 868 (2011)
Telephone code : (+381) 014
Postal code : 14252
License plate : VA
Structure and administration
Community type: Village

Kamenica ( Serbian Cyrillic : Каменица) is a village in western Serbia . The village is also often called Valjevska Kamenica , this refers to the nearby town of Valjevo , as there are several places in Serbia with the name Kamenica .

Geography and population

The village is located in Opština Valjevo , in Okrug Kolubara in western Podgorina , a historical region. Kamenica had 868 inhabitants at the 2011 census, compared to 1009 inhabitants in 2002. According to the last three population statistics, the number of inhabitants continues to fall.

The population is made up of Serbs . Kamenica consists of 363 households. The village lies by the Kamenica brook, and there is also a small lake in the village area , the Kameničko Jezero . The village is on a railroad track.

Demographics

year population
1948 1534
1953 1546
1961 1632
1971 1443
1981 1371
1991 1131
2002 1009
2011 868

Opština Kamenica

Until 1965, this village was the seat of Opština Kamenica. This municipality consisted of the villages: Beomužević, Bobova, Gornja Bukovica, Kamenica , Majinović, Miličinica, Oglađenovac , Osladić, Pričević, Sitarice, Stanina Reka, Stapar, Suvodanje, Tupanci, Vlaščić and Vragočanica. With the dissolution of the municipality, the entire area, the former municipality of Kamenica , became part of the municipality of Valjevo .

Infrastructure

The Milovan Glišić elementary school is located in the village . Kamenica is the seat of a local community (Mesna Zajednica).

religion

The population of Kamenica professes the Serbian Orthodox Church . The Serbian Orthodox Parish Church of St. Nicholas is in the village . The church belongs to the Podgorina deanery of the Valjevo Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The current priest is Čedomir Simić.

In the center of the village is the village cross dedicated to Petrovdan , the holiday of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul .

gallery

  • Shop in the village center

  • Village cross in the village center

  • Old houses in the village center

  • Fields around Kamenica

  • View of Kamenica and the surrounding area

  • Monument to the partisan Zdravko Jovanović (A work by Vida Jocić)

  • Milovan Glišić elementary school in the village

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