Belgrade

The ceety lies at the confluence o the Sava an Danube rivers, whaur the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. The urban aurie o the Ceety o Belgrade haes a population o 1.23 million, while ower 1.65 million fowk live within its admeenistrative leemits. Its name in Serbian translates tae White ceety.

Belgrade Београд Beograd
Ceety
Banner Coat airms
Location athin Europe an Serbie
Coordinates: 44°49′14″N 20°27′44″E / 44.82056°N 20.46222°E / 44.82056; 20.46222 20°27′44″E / 44.82056°N 20.46222°E / 44.82056; 20.46222
Kintra	Serbie
Destrict	Ceety o Belgrade
Municipalities	17
Establishment	before 279 BC (Singidunum)
Govrenment
• Mayor	Dragan Đilas (DS)
• Rulin pairties	DS/G17+/SPS-PUPS/LDP
Area
• Ceety	359.96 km2 (138.98 sq mi)
• Metro	3222.68 km2 (1,244.28 sq mi)
Elevation	117 m (384 ft)
Population
• Ceety	1,166,763
• Rank	1st
• Density	3,241/km2 (8,390/sq mi)
• Urban	1233796
• Destrict	1659440
• Destrict density	514/km2 (1,330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	11000
Area code(s)	(+381) 11
Caur plates	BG
Website	www.beograd.rs

Belgrade's wider ceety aurie wis the birthplace o the lairgest prehistoric cultur o Europe, the Vinča cultur, as early as the 6t millennium BC. In antiquity, the aurie o Belgrade wis inhabitit bi the Thraco-Dacian tribe o Singi who wad gie the name tae the ceety efter a fortress wis foondit in the 3rd century BC bi the Celts, who named it Singidun (dun, fortress) It wis awardit ceety richts bi the Romans afore it wis permanently settled bi Serbs frae the 7t century onwards. As a strategic location, the ceety wis battled ower in 115 wars an razed tae the grund 44 times syne the auncient period bi coontless airmies o the East an Wast. In medieval times, it wis in the possession o Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian an Serbian rulers. In 1521 Belgrade wis conquered bi the Ottomans an became the seat o the Pashaluk o Belgrade, as the principal ceety o Ottoman Europe an amang the lairgest European ceeties. Frequently passin frae Ottoman tae Austrian rule which saw destruction o maist o the ceety, the status o Serbian caipital wad be regained ae in 1841, efter the Serbian revolution. Northren Belgrade, tho, remained a Habsburg ootpost till the breakup o Austrick-Hungary in 1918. The unitit ceety then became the caipital o several incarnations o Yugoslavie, up tae 2006, when Serbie became an independent state again.

Belgrade haes the status o a separate territorial unit in Serbie, wi its awn autonomous ceety govrenment. Its territory is dividit intae 17 municipalities, each haein its awn local cooncil. It covers 3.6% o Serbie's territory, an 24% o the kintra's population lives in the ceety. Belgrade is the central economic hub o Serbie, an the caipital o Serbian education an science.

Thir are the offeecial sister ceeties o Belgrade:

Kintra	Ceety	Year
	Corfu	2010
	Coventry	1957
	Chicago	2005
	Lahore	2007
	Ljubljana	2010
	Tel Aviv	1990
	Vienna	2003

Some o the ceety's municipalities are an aa twinned tae sma ceeties or destricts o ither big ceeties, for details see thair respective airticles.

Ither seemilar forms o cooperation an ceety friendship:

Kintra	Ceety	Date	Form
	Athens	1966	Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation
	Banja Luka	2005	Agreement on Cooperation
	Beijing	1980	Agreement on Cooperation
	Berlin	1978	Agreement on Cooperation an Friendship
	Düsseldorf	2004	Agreement on Cooperation
	Kiev	2002	Agreement on Cooperation
	Madrid	2001	Agreement on Cooperation
	Milan	2000	Memorandum o Agreement, Ceety tae Ceety Programme
	Moscow	2002	Programme o Cooperation
	Roum	1971	Agreement on Friendship an Cooperation
	Shenzhen	2009	Agreement on Cooperation
	Skopje	Juin, 2006	Agreement on Cooperation