Hadžipopovac

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Hadžipopovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Хаџипоповац) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Hadžipopovac is located in the central part of urban section of the municipality. It borders the neighborhood of Paliula to the south, municipality of Zvezdara (neighborhood Slavujev Venac) and Novo Groblje cemetery to the east, neighborhood of Bogoslovija to the north and the neighborhood and municipality of Stari Grad to the west. Hadžipopovac is bordered by the streets of Ruzveltova, Cvijićeva, Čarlija Čaplina and the Boulevard of Despot Stefan Lazarević. It had the population of 6,219 in 2002.

After World War II it was the eastern border of the city, today it is kilometers away from the eastern border of Belgrade.

[edit] Profesorska Kolonija

Roughly, eastern section of Hadžipopovac overlaps with the neighborhood of Profesorska Kolonija (Serbian Cyrillic: Професорска Колонија). It has newer buildings than the rest of Hadžipopovac which is a cause for the popular rivalry between those who consider them inhabitants of Hadžipopovac and those from Profesorska Kolonija (which is Serbian for professor's colony).