Ripanj

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Рипањ Ripanj

Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	City of Belgrade, Voždovac municipality
Location:	?
Population: 2002	10,741
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.

1 Location
2 Population
- 2.1 Characteristics
3 Boroughs
4 References

[edit] Location

Ripanj is located some 30 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.

[edit] 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:

1921 - 5,012
1948 - 7,205
1961 - 7,588
1971 - 7,882
1981 - 10,463
1991 - 10,312
2002 - 10,741

[edit] Characteristics

Ripanj is still largely agricultural settlement. The electrotechnics factory "Elektrosrbija" is located in Ripanj.

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

[edit] Boroughs

As a relatively large, elongated settlement, stretched along the road, it developed outer boroughs or comprised the formerly separate settlements. Some of the largest are:

Bela Zemlja ("white land"), east of downtown Ripanj;
Brđani ("hilly (village)"), south-west;
Prnjavor ("ragged place"), east of Bela Zemlja;
Trešnja ("sweet cherry"), an easternmost settlement of Ripanj, a popular picnic area located north of the Ralja river, on the northern slopes of the 310 meter-high Koviona hill, along the Belgrade-Kragujevac road. It is 32 kilometers south-east of Belgrade and closer to Vrčin in the municipality of Grocka than to Ripanj and the village of Mala Ivanča is just south of it. The surrounding area comprises a small artificial pond, two cold water springs, a restaurant, weekend-settlement and a car camping park.