Ugrinovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Угриновци) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Ugrinovci
Suburban settlement
Ugrinovci is located in Serbia
Ugrinovci
Ugrinovci
Coordinates: 44°52′42″N 20°11′13″E / 44.87833°N 20.18694°E / 44.87833; 20.18694
Country Serbia
Area
 • Total
50.33 km2 (19.43 sq mi)
Elevation
66 m (217 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
10,807
 • Density210/km2 (560/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Location

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Ugrinovci is located in the eastern section of the Syrmia region, in the western part of the municipality of Zemun, near the administrative border of the municipality of Vojvodina. It is located on the Batajnica-Dobanovci road. In the northern direction to Batajnica, which is 8 kilometres (5 miles) away, is the new sub-neighborhood of Busije, while in the northern direction to Dobanovci (4 kilometres (2 miles), over the Belgrade-Zagreb highway) is the also new sub-neighbourhood of Grmovac, both being populated since the mid-1990s with refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which almost doubled the population of Ugrinovci.[citation needed]

Demographics

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The population of Ugrinovci has been steadily growing for the last four decades. The population according to the official censuses:

  • 1948 - 1,769
  • 1953 - 1,728
  • 1961 - 1,895
  • 1971 - 2,258
  • 1981 - 3,278
  • 1991 - 4,007
  • 2002 - 7,199
  • 2012 - 10,807

Ethnic structure

In 2002, 97.33% of residents were Serbs and 0.55% were Romani.

Characteristics

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Ugrinovci is a village with the majority of its population employed in agriculture. Since the detachment of the municipality of Surčin from Zemun in 2003, Ugrinovci has remained the only separate settlement in the municipality of Zemun, as all the other settlements (Batajnica, Zemun Polje, former city of Zemun, etc.) are part of the Belgrade city proper (uža teritorija grada).

The name of the village comes from the medieval name for Hungarians (Ugri).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Насеља општине Земун" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  • Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
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