Sutjeska, Zemun

Map of Urban local communities in Zemun municipality

Sutjeska (Serbian Cyrillic: Сутјеска) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Location

Sutjeska is located west of the old core of Zemun. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Sava Kovačević to the west (bounded by the Šilerova street), Gornji Grad to the north (Ugrinovačka street), Novi Grad's sub-neighborhood of Vojni Put I to the south-west (Pazovački put), while Prvomajska street marks the southern border of the neighborhood.

Characteristics

The neighborhood is predominantly residential, with 7,446 inhabitants according to the 2002 census of the population. It has its own health centre and elementary school.

It was named after the Battle of Sutjeska which took place in 1943 between Partisans and the Axis forces, where Partisan leader Sava Kovačević was killed. Back-to-back neighborhoods of Blok Sutjeska and Blok Sava Kovačević also exist in another Belgrade neighborhood, Krnjača, in the municipality of Palilula.

Neighborhoods

Bački Ilovik

A north-west extension. It is a triangularly shaped and bound by the streets of Bačka to the east, Ugrinovačka to the north and Pazovački put to the south, it is mostly inhabited by the Romani people. Several companies for collecting old materials (iron, aluminium, paper, etc.) are located in the neighborhood.

Meandri

North-east, residential extension, bound by the streets of Zagorska to the south, Rade Končara to the east and Ugrinovačka to the north. The name means meanders.

Zemun Bačka

Zemun Bačka is the northernmost extension of the neighborhood and unlike the rest of Sutjeska, is a mostly industrial area. In the north it extends in the direction of Nova Galenika while the neighborhood of Altina begins just west, across the Belgrade-Novi Sad highway. A roundabout of the bus lines 18 and 83, which connect Zemun with downtown Belgrade is located in the neighborhood.