Beli Potok

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Бели Поток Beli Potok

Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	City of Belgrade, Voždovac municipality
Location:	?
Population: 2002	3,417
Area code:	011
Postal code:	11223
License plates:	BG

Beli Potok (Serbian Cyrillic: Бели Поток) is a small town and a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Voždovac.

[edit] Location

Beli Potok is located in on the northern slope of the Avala mountain, near the crossroads ot the roads of Avalski put, which connects Belgrade with the Avala, and Kružni put, tha major road connecting the settlements on the southern outskirts of Belgrade. To the south, Beli Potok extends in the direction of the small town of Pinosava, to the east in the direction of Bubanj Potok and to the north it makes one continuous built-up area with the urban neighborhood of Selo Rakovica, but Beli Potok is administratively classified as a separate settlement and not part of the Belgrade City proper (uža teritorija grada).

[edit] Population

Beli Potok is statistically classified as an urban settlement (town). The population has been steadily declining from 1970s to 1990s, but with the large influx of refugees from the Yugoslav Wars after 1991, the population began to grow again. Population of Beli Potok according to the official censuses of population:

1921 - 1,171
1971 - 3,237
1981 - 3,150
1991 - 2,997
2002 - 3,417

[edit] Characteristics

Beli Potok is the birthplace of Vasa Čarapić (1770-1806), one of the main army leaders from the First Serbian Uprising, and the main street in the town bears his name. In the field west of Beli Potok is the institute for the development of water resources Jaroslav Černi. Some of the other well known features in the town are the famed motel Hiljadu ruža and kafana Kumbara. Railway also passes through the town, going through the tunnel constructed under the north-western corner of the settlement. The name, beli potok, is descriptive, meaning "white creek" in Serbian.