Mali Mokri Lug
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Mali Mokri Lug (Serbian Cyrillic: Мали Мокри Луг) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zvezdara.
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[edit] Location
Mali Mokri Lug is located in the south-eastern section of the municiaplity, marking the border with the municipality of Grocka. It mostly stretches between Bulevar kralja Aleksandra and the Highway Belgrade–Niš, but also north of the boulevard (Zeleno Brdo). It extends into the neighborhoods of Mirijevo on the nort, Konjarnik on the west, Medaković III on the south-west, Veliki Mokri Lug on the south and Kaluđerica (in Grocka municipality) on the east.
[edit] Geography
Mali Mokri Lug is occupies northern section of the Mokroluški potok valley, which is today used as a route for the Belgrade-Niš highway and divides Mali Mokri Lug and Veliki Mokri Lug. The neighborhood occupies southern slopes of several hills (Bajdina, Zeleno Brdo, Stojčino Brdo with an altitude of 270 meters), descending into the Mokroluški potok's valley, so the entire neighborhood is built downhill.
[edit] History and administration
Mali Mokri Lug used to be a separate village, outside Belgrade's urban zone. As Belgade developed, with construction of a large neighborhood od Konjarnik in 1960s and 1970s and Mali Mokri Lug's radip development as a suburb, it became part of the city's urban tissue and lost separate status after 1971, becoming local community (mesna zajednica, sub-municipal administrative unit) within Belgrade city proper (uža teritorija grada). Mali Mokri Lug continued to grow and now makes the easternmost section of Belgrade's urban proper, developing further east along Bulevar kralja Aleksandra and Smederevski put, it's continuation. With this growth, it now also makes continuous built-up area with formerly separate Veliki Mokri Lug (on highway, at "Lasta" garage, at a tripoint with Kaluđerica's sub-neighborhood of Klenak at the bridge over highway and with Kaluđerica directly along Smederevski put ).
Mali Mokri Lug had it's own municipality in the 1950s. It was abolished on January 1, 1957 and merged into Zvezdara. It also comprised Kaluđerica, Leštane and Vinča which were later detached and annexed to the municipality of Grocka.
[edit] Characteristics
According to the 2002 census of population, Mali Mokri Lug had 22,024 inhabitants. It had a population of 1,600 in 1921 and 10,378 in 1971, before it was attached to Belgrade. Name can be translated into English as "little wet grove". Accordingly, neighboring Veliki Mokri Lug means "large wet grove". Name originates from numerous water sources, now mostly in the eastern section of Veliki Mokri Lug. Near highway, a graveyard for both neighborhoods is located (Mokroluško groblje). Area is residential, but a major commercial zone along Bulevar kralja Aleksandra developed, with many repair shops, stores, etc.
[edit] Zeleno Brdo
Zeleno Brdo (Serbian Cyrillic: Зелено брдо) is the northern extension of Mali Mokri Lug, north of the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra. It extends into Mirijevo on the north and Cvetkova Pijaca and further into Zvezdara on the east. Located on top of the hill of the same name (Serbian for "green hill"), it forms a local community of its own, with a population of 9,819 by 2002 census.
