Kostolac
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Костолац Kostolac |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Okrug : | Braničevo | ||||
| Opština : | Požarevac | ||||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 43 ' N , 21 ° 10' E | ||||
| Residents : | 9,313 (2002) | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 012 | ||||
| Postal code : | 12208 | ||||
| License plate : | PO | ||||
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| Community type: | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Dušan Vujčić ( SPS ) | ||||
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Kostolac ( Cyrillic Костолац; Romanian Caştelu ) is a city in Serbia on the Danube .
The place is near Požarevac , a good 70 kilometers downstream from Belgrade in the Braničevo district . Two thermal power plants are operated in the city .
history
Prehistory and early history
In 2009 the almost intact skeleton of a southern elephant ( Mammuthus meridionalis ) was discovered in the city's coal mine in the immediate vicinity of the excavation site of the Roman legionary camp Viminatium . If the preliminary age estimates of three to five million years prove to be correct, this is the oldest evidence of a mammoth in Europe. In 2012, a scientifically important mammoth cemetery with seven mammoth skeletons was uncovered at the same location. However, these originate from loess layers of the Upper Pleistocene and are therefore provisionally determined to be between 126,000-10,000 years before Christ.
The Roman city of Viminatium , capital of the province of Moesia, was located on the site of today's city .
Middle Ages to modern times
During the Second World War , the National Socialists planned the first power plant called Mali Kostolac (German: Klein-Kostolac). After the war ended, people from all over Serbia came to build this thermal power station.
Residents
The 2002 census (self-named) showed that 9,313 people live in the city. Of which were:
| number | percent | |
| total | 9313 | 100 |
| Serbs | 6913 | 74.22 |
| Roma (so-called gypsies ) | 1756 | 18.85 |
| Croatians | 39 | 0.41 |
| Montenegrins | 38 | 0.40 |
| Macedonians | 36 | 0.38 |
| Yugoslavs | 3 | 1.13 |
| Magyars | 19th | 0.20 |
| Slovenes | 18th | 0.19 |
| Wallachians | 16 | 0.17 |
| Romanians | 13 | 0.13 |
| Others ( Germans , Bulgarians etc.) | 17th | 0.17 |
| Unknown | 275 | 2.95 |
Other censuses:
- 1948: 2,946
- 1953: 4,332
- 1961: 4,981
- 1971: 6,678
- 1981: 9,274
- 1991: 10.365
economy
Kostolac has two thermal power plants:
- TPP "Kostolac A" - with 2 blocks - total available capacity: 281 MW and the production of 716 GWh
- TPP "Kostolac B" - with 2 blocks - total available capacity: 640 MW and the production of 3027 GWh
These two power plants account for 11% of Serbia's total electricity production .
Remarks
- ↑ Thomas Roser: Mighty fossil mammoth discovered in Serbia In: Die Welt Online , July 5, 2009
- ^ The Telegraph, June 28, 2012 Mammoth graveyard discovered in Serbia
- ↑ rts.rs: Откривено "читаво крдо" мамута! (Serbian) In: Radio-televizije Srbije , June 13, 2012
- ↑ Overall result of the census of April 2002 (English) ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 379 kB)
- ↑ The respondents could indicate the nationality Yugoslav .