Pomoravlje District Explained

Pomoravlje District
Native Name:Поморавски округ
Pomoravski okrug
Settlement Type:District of Serbia
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Coordinates:43.9667°N 36°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Serbia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Šumadija and Western Serbia
Seat Type:Administrative center
Seat:Jagodina
Leader Title:Commissioner
Leader Name:Goran Milosavljević
Total Type:Total
Area Total Km2:2,614
Population Total:182,047
Population As Of:2022 census
Population Density Km2:82.1
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Blank Info Sec1:5 and 1 city
Blank1 Name Sec1:Settlements
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Blank2 Name Sec1:- Cities and towns
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Blank3 Name Sec1:- Villages
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Iso Code:RS-13

The Pomoravlje District (sr|{{lang|sr-Cyrl|Поморавски округ, pronounced as /sh/) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It expands to the central parts of Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 214,536 inhabitants. The administrative center is the city of Jagodina.

Municipalities

The Pomoravlje District contains 6 municipalities (singular: општина, opština - plural: oпштине, opštine). The following table shows the names of each municipality in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and the population of each as of 2011:

MunicipalityCyrillicMunicipal Pop.Urban Pop.
JagodinaЈагодина71,85237,282
ĆuprijaЋуприја33,35622,302
ParaćinПараћин54,26724,573
SvilajnacСвилајнац23,3919,131
DespotovacДеспотовац22,9954,212
RekovacРековац10,9711,930

Demographics

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Pomoravlje District has 214,536 inhabitants. 45.35% of the population lives in the urban areas.

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groupPopulation%
Serbs203,41994.82%
Romani2,6381.23%
"Vlachs" (Romanians)1,9380.90%
Montenegrins2730.13%
Macedonians2590.12%
Romanians (self-declared)2500.12%
Croats1940.09%
Yugoslavs1780.08%
Others5,3872.51%
Total214,536

Society and culture

Culture

The nineteenth century architecture has been partly preserved in the district. Earlier times are testified by the remnants of edifices, such as The House of Hajduk Veljko from the eighteenth century. Particularly interesting is the Old Church of Archangel Michael, the endowment of Miloš Obrenović, built in 1818.

The Jošanica Monastery was built in the late fourteenth century at the time of Despot Đurađ Branković's reign, and is regarded as the finest medieval building of this region. In the vicinity of Ćuprija stands the Ravanica Monastery with the Church of Assumption, the endowment of Prince Lazar, built between 1375 and 1377. After the death of Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović in the Battle of Kosovo, his holy relics were safeguarded there until 1690, when their three-century-long resettlement with the Serb people started, only to have finally been returned to his endowment, which are there to this day.

The Resava-Manasija monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of Despotovac. The Resava endowment of Despot Stefan Lazarević was built between 1407 and 1418. During the fifteenth century, the famous Resava School carried out its work there, in the framework of several workshops in which major texts of world heritage were copied and new ones written. Konstantin the Philosopher, the author of the "Hagiography of Despot Stefan" and the "Book on Letters", which regulated the Orthography of the Serbian language at that time, carried out his creative work in the Resava Monastery.

Education

There is one faculty located in the Pomoravlje District that is within the University of Kragujevac:

See also

References

Note: All official material made by the Government of Serbia is public by law. Information was taken from .

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