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Belgrade Fortress (Kalemegdan)
Ancient fortress at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, offering panoramic views and layers of Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman history.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Zemun
Central Serbia, Serbia · Europe
About Zemun
Zemun is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Novi Beograd, 5km from Belgrade Fortress (Kalemegdan).
Zemun is in Central Serbia, Serbia, with about 160,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Novi Beograd, about 5 km away.
Zemun (Serbian Cyrillic: Земун, pronounced [zěmuːn]; Hungarian: Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade, north of the Sava. The development of NewRead more
Belgrade in the late 20th century expanded the continuous urban area of Belgrade and merged it with Zemun.
The town was conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary in the 12th century and in the 15th century it was given as a personal possession to the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. After the Serbian Despotate fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1459, Zemun became an important military outpost. Its strategic location near the confluence of the Sava and the Danube placed it in the center of the continued border wars between the Habsburg and the Ottoman empires. The Treaty of Passarowitz of 1718 finally placed the town into Habsburg possession, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rights of a military commune in 1749. In 1777, Zemun had 6,800 residents, half of which were ethnic Serbs, while another half of the population was composed of Germans, Hungarians and Jews. With the abolishment of the Military Frontier in 1881, Zemun and the rest of the eastern Srem was included into Syrmia County of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary. Following Austro-Hungarian defeat in World War I, Zemun returned to Serbian control on November 5, 1918 and became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
According to the 2022 census results, the municipality of Zemun has a population of 177,908 inhabitants. Apart from the Zemun proper, the municipality includes suburbs of Batajnica, Ugrinovci, Zemun Polje and Nova Galenika to the northwest.
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Within an hour or so of Zemun: Belgrade Fortress (Kalemegdan) (5 km), Kafana Znak Pitanja (?) (5 km).
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Zemun is in Central Serbia, Serbia, about 5 km from Novi Beograd.
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- Population
- 155,591
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Serbia
- Region
- Central Serbia
- Timezone
- Europe/Belgrade
- Coordinates
- 44.8458, 20.4012
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Worth the detour from Zemun
2 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Kafana Znak Pitanja (?)
Belgrade's oldest surviving kafana, serving since 1823 in a Balkan-style house opposite the cathedral. Its cryptic '?' name a relic of a 19th-century naming dispute with the church. Ottoman-era low tables, grilled classics, live tamburica.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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