| Čačak Чачак |
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| A street in the center of Čačak, Serbia | |||
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| Location of the municipality of Čačak within Serbia | |||
| Coordinates: | |||
| Country | Serbia | ||
| District | Moravica | ||
| Settlements | 58 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Velimir Stanojević (NS) | ||
| Area[1] | |||
| • Municipality | 636 km2 (245.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2011 census)[2] | |||
| • Town | 72,148 | ||
| • Municipality | 114,809 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 32000 | ||
| Area code | +381 32 | ||
| Car plates | ČA | ||
| Website | www.cacak.org.rs | ||
Čačak (Serbian Cyrillic: Чачак, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [t͡ʃǎːt͡ʃak]) is a city in central Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district. The population of the city is 70,148, by 2011 census.
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The Municipality of Čačak includes the following settlements:
The region has several archaeological sites, dating from prehistory to present, the oldest from the 15th century BC.[3]
Princely tombs of Greco-Illyrian type (Glasinac culture) were found in two mounds of Atenica with Ionian glass, glass-paste, amber bead depicting swan, Attic plaque of Wild boar, dating to the late 6th century BC.[4] More ornithomorphic fibulae of Bronze swans was found in Mojsinje.[5][6]
Prehistoric tumuli have been unearthed in Mrčajevci.[7]
In the village of Jelica-Gradina, a Roman compound (fort) with a martyrium and necropolis has been excavated, with three churches, one of which produced a pentanummion for Justinian 526-537, also believed to have founded the fort in the 530s. The presence of burnt layers conclude that the settlement ended in violence, in the same region in the 6th century, 4 forts were built.[8]
Čačak has two years on its coat of arms. First being 1408, when the city is first recorded of (as Gradac), and the second is 1815, the year Second Serbian Uprising began and the battle of Ljubic hill was fought. This battle is famous for heroic victory of the rebels who defeated Ottoman army numbering 60,000 men, twice more than the Serbs. The church in the center of Čačak was built in the 12th century by Stephen Nemanja's brother, Stracimir. It was made a mosque, and then a church back again in the 19th century.
Ethnic composition of the municipality (2002 census):
| Ethnic group | Population |
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| Serbs | 138,208 |
| Montenegrins | 563 |
| Roma | 383 |
| Yugoslavs | 299 |
| Macedonians | 127 |
| Croats | 109 |
| Others | 1,383 |
| Total | 141,072 |
Čačak is twinned with: