Ripanj

Рипањ
Ripanj
Country:  Serbia
Subdivision: City of Belgrade,
Voždovac municipality
Population: 22,360 (2010)
Area code: 011
Postal code: 11232
License plates: BG

Ripanj (Serbian Cyrillic: Рипањ) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Voždovac. It has a distinction of being "the largest village of Serbia" taking in account its number of population, but also because it has the largest area of all rural settlements in the country.[1]

Location

Ripanj is located some 25 kilometers south of Belgrade, on the southern slopes of the Avala mountain, in the valley of the Topčiderka river. It is the southernmost settlement in the municipality, on the northern side of the Lipovica woods, near the tripoint of the municipalities of Voždovac, Barajevo and Sopot.

Population

Ripanj is statistically clasiffied as a rural settlement (village). Population has been stagnating for the last several decades, according to the official censuses of population:[2]

History

It is believed that settlement got its name from the large rock in the vicinity, called Ripa. Slopes of the Avala were already inhabioted in Neolithic.[1] The location is an old mining area as it is known that already Romans were extracting mercury and silver and the tradition was later continued by the medieval Saxon miners. One of the major Serbian industrialists in the early 20th century, Đorđe Vajfert, also owned several mining fields. The mercury extraction from the Avala mountain ended in the second half of the 20th century.

The village got its first school in 1824, the same year when the first church was built. The small, wooden church (crkva-brvanara) was later replaced with the large Church of the Holy Trinity in 1892.

Characteristics

Ripanj is still largely agricultural settlement. The electrotechnics factory "Elektrosrbija" is located in Ripanj, so as the three "Minel" factory departments.

Ripanj is located in the northern, low Šumadija and the neighboring plateau is named after the settlement (Ripanj plateau), south of the Pinosava plateau. A railway Belgrade-Niš (both parallel lines) passes next to the settlement and the tunnel south of Ripanj is named the "Ripanj tunnel".

Boroughs

As a large and elongated settlement, stretched along the road and railway (there are five railway stations within the Ripanj area), it developed outer boroughs or comprised the formerly separate settlements. Some of the largest are:

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Bratislav Stojić. "Izveštaj iz Ripnja "Report from Ripanj"". B92 Kulturna laboratorija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2008-07-28. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ Uporedni pregled broja stanovnika 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 i 2002 - podaci po naseljima (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. 2004. ISBN 86-84433-14-9.
  3. ↑ "Kulturna dobra na opštini Voždovac "Cultural properties of Voždovac municipality"". Municipality of Voždovac (in Serbian). Retrieved 2008-07-28. External link in |work= (help)
  4. ↑ Prof.dr. Branko Vujović. "Istorija umetnosti "History of arts"" (PDF). Ljubisa Bojic Portal (in Serbian). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-28. External link in |work= (help)
  5. ↑ "Uređeno romsko naselje u Ripnju". Politika (in Serbian). 2008-06-14. p. 24.

Coordinates: 44°38′N 20°31′E / 44.633°N 20.517°E / 44.633; 20.517

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