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Books You Weren't Allowed to Read

Books You Weren't Allowed to Read

Depending on the times we live in, political and other circumstances, books are also the target of social criticism. The reasons for banning the publication and reading of certain books are varied.

Work from Home and Stay Productive!

Work from Home and Stay Productive!

Due to the pandemic, many people are forced to work from home for the first time, and this change of habits is not exciting at all.

Evliya Çelebi | Origin of Street Names

Evliya Çelebi | Origin of Street Names

Mehmed Zili better known as Evliya Çelebi (1611 – 1682) was the most famous Ottoman travel writer and chronicler of events during the greatest power and expansion of the Turkish empire.

Prince Miloš Obrenović | Origin of Street Names

Prince Miloš Obrenović | Origin of Street Names

The great leader of the Second Serbian Uprising and the first Serbian prince, Prince Miloš was a person under whose reign Serbia regained the elements of statehood after centuries of Ottoman slavery.

New Squares in Belgrade

New Squares in Belgrade

In 2020, Belgrade should get eight new small squares.

Prota Mateja Nenadović | Origin of Street Names

Prota Mateja Nenadović | Origin of Street Names

Mateja Nenadović (1777 – 1854) was one of the most significant figures in Serbia in the first half of the 19th century, one of the leaders of the First Serbian Uprising, priest, diplomat and writer.

Waiting for the Belgrade Subway

Waiting for the Belgrade Subway

The first underground train started operating in London around 1863. Other capitals soon began to build their metro systems, connecting the most distant neighborhoods and enabling easy and simple transportation through the urban jungle.

Raša Plaović | Origin of Street Names

Raša Plaović | Origin of Street Names

Radomir Raša Plaović (1899 – 1977) was one of the greatest Serbian actors of the first half of the 20th century, a theater director and dramatist and a professor at the FDU in Belgrade.

Charles Darwin | Origin of Street Names

Charles Darwin | Origin of Street Names

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882) was a naturalist, biologist and geologist, the creator of the magnificent theory of the evolution of living beings and one of the greatest scientists in the history of the world we know.

Ksenija Atanasijević | Origin of Street Names

Ksenija Atanasijević | Origin of Street Names

Ksenija Atanasijević (1894 – 1981) was a philosopher, the first woman to receive a doctorate at the University of Belgrade and the first female university professor in the Kingdom of SHS.

Branko Miljković | Origin of Street Names

Branko Miljković | Origin of Street Names

Branko Miljković (1934 - 1961) was a poet, translator and essayist who, despite his very short life span, managed to rank among the most important and elusive poets of his time.

Martin Luther King | Origin of Street Names

Martin Luther King | Origin of Street Names

The most significant and probably the most famous public speech in the history of the USA was given by Martin Luther King in 1963 in Washington, in front of about 250,000 followers.

Sándor Petőfi | Origin of Street Names

Sándor Petőfi | Origin of Street Names

The greatest Hungarian poet of Romanticism, a great inspiration to renowned Serbian writers Đura Jakšić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Jakov Ignjatović, and one of the leaders of the Hungarian revolution, was born as Aleksandar Petrović.

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić | Origin of Street Names

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić | Origin of Street Names

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864) was born in Tršić, near Loznica, as one of the many but rarely surviving children of Stefan and Jegda Karadžić.

Prince Eugene of Savoy | Origin of Street Names

Prince Eugene of Savoy | Origin of Street Names

Francis Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) was one of the most renowned Austrian military commanders in history and a figure whose name could easily have been associated with our Belgrade.

Blagoje Moša Marjanović | Origin of Street Names

Blagoje Moša Marjanović | Origin of Street Names

Blagoje Moša Marjanović (1907-1984) is a name that few people haven't heard of today. While the younger generations may remember him from their contemporaries or popular TV series, even the youngest ones have become acquainted with him through storie

Alexander Fleming | Origin of Street Names

Alexander Fleming | Origin of Street Names

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) is one of the greatest scientists in the field of medicine, best known for the discovery of one of the most significant antibiotics - penicillin.

Milan Kakashi - a Forgotten Legend | Old Belgrade stories

Milan Kakashi - a Forgotten Legend | Old Belgrade stories

Milan Kakashi was not born in Belgrade. Moreover, most of his life he did not even live in Belgrade. He only spent the last twenty years there...

Rabin Alkalaj | Origin of Street names

Rabin Alkalaj | Origin of Street names

Did you know that the idea of Zionism was born in our region...?! In our city...?! In Zemun?!

Žanka Stokić | Origin of Street Names

Žanka Stokić | Origin of Street Names

Živana "Žanka" Stokić (1887-1947) was one of the greatest Serbian actresses of all time, whose path was far more thorny than studded with stars, and her fate undeservedly tragic.