Grabovica, Gornji Milanovac

Grabovica, Gornji Milanovac
Грабовица
Village

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Grabovica, Gornji Milanovac
Coordinates: 44°01′N 20°30′E / 44.017°N 20.500°E
Country  Serbia
District Moravica District
Statistical region Šumadija and Western Serbia
Municipality Gornji Milanovac
Government
 • Type Council of the settlement Grabovica
 • President of the Grabovica Settlement Mileta Tešić [1]
Area
 • Total 598 sq mi (15,48 km2)
Elevation 1,641 ft (500 m)
Population (2011)[2]
 • Total 456
 • Density 7,630/sq mi (29,46/km2)
  as for 2011 census
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s) +381 32
Website http://www.gornjimilanovac.rs/lat/e-mesne.html

Grabovica (Serbian Cyrillic:Грабовица, pronounced [graboʋit̪͡s̪a]) is a village in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. The name derivates from the word grab ("hornbeam"). According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 456 people.[3]

Geography, Climate and Ecosystem

Grabovica is located 6 km from Gornji Milanovac. This village is dispersed settlement Rural type.

Main hamlets in the village are:[4][5]

Highest peaks in Grabovica are: Klik 721 m (2,365 ft), Veliki Vrh 691 m (2,267 ft), Mali Vrh 623 m (2,044 ft) and Parac 602 m (1975 ft).

Grabovica, like Gornji Milanovac has Humid continental climate.Hottest month of the year is July and August, while the coldest are January and February. The average annual precipitation height are in the range of 788 mm (31.02 in). Minimum mean wind speed is 1.7 - 2.6 m/s (3.11-5.05 knots) and maximum 13.8 - 20.7 m/s (26.83-40.24 knots). These maximum speed occurs he southeastern, southwestern and southern winds. Annual average daily global sun radiation energy on a horizontal surface on territory of municipality Gornji Milanovac is between 3.8-4.0 kWh/m2 (0.33-0.35 BTU/ft2).

In this village there is various water resources. As proff of that, there is numerous water wells. Soil on its territory is in majority of brown earth on diabase. Vegetation period lasts 220–260 days. Forest vegetation makes 2/3 of total area and contains hornbeam, pilar, oak, acacia, etc. Plant vegetation consists of meadow grass (in majority), meadows and grassland. Through this village circulate Grabovica river.

History

There are several sites in Grabovica from the Roman and Byzantine eras. There are Roman archaeological sites in the hamlet of Arnauti-Kršić, some "Hungarian" sites (as local people calls them), and a church from the period of Austrian occupation of Serbia (1718-1739) in Parac. These monuments were demolished when the area underwent colonisation. In 1718 there were no households in Grabovica. According to Dr Milenko S. Filipović larger settlements begun from the period 1718-1739. In 1735 there was 15 households. The inhabitants were mainly settled from the Ottoman regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and southwestern Serbia. The village saw an industrial progress in the 1960s through the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia. In the period 1961, Grabovica had biggest population of 897 citizen.[6] Dicreasing trend of population number happened in period 1971-2002, showes census data [6]

Demographics

There is 148 households in this village and number decreases, because bad economical situation. According to the date from 2011 census, in this village population by nationality is:

As regard as mother language, population is distributed in the next way:[7]

  1. Serbian language - 453,
  2. Croatian language- 1 and
  3. Unknown- 2.

In the village Grabovica, structure of the population by age and sex is what it follows:[8]

Age Total Male Female
0-4 49 10 9
5-9 26 15 11
10-14 21 9 12
15-19 22 12 10
20-24 21 7 14
25-29 22 11 11
30-34 30 20 10
35-39 34 16 18
40-44 26 15 11
45-49 27 14 13
50-54 28 15 13
55-59 48 22 26
60-64 44 26 18
65-69 20 13 7
70-74 21 7 14
75-79 19 7 12
80-84 22 9 13
85 and more 6 3 3
Adult population 337 190 187
Average age 44.3 43.5 45.2

Sports

During winter times on Ždreban peak recreational skiers and other athlets use some paths for their exercises. Grabovica does not have any sport club or society, but it has 2 ball parks for recreation purpose: 3x3 Basketball, Tennis, Snooker, Futsal, Handball and Table tennis.

Tourism and culture

Grabovica has great potencial for progress in area of tourism, thanks of theirs geographical position and panorama view over Gornji Milanovac and surroundings. Grabovica woods are popular for hunting on venison. The Ždreban peak of Grabovica is also and famous picnic place for 1 May celebration or International Workers' Day, even today. This village has a few private owned country hotels.

Grabovica has a Youth Culture center, currently under reconstruction. This culture center is main place for gathering like for: organization of votings and referendums, youth parties, culture exposure, humanitarian actions, trading and session of the village. Also in the past on the land of territory of this village was and the House of Serbian-Norwegian friendship. After new internal borders in municipality of Gornji Milanovac, this cultural center become a part of Gornji Milanovac settlement. Also there is mass grave with the monument for the fallen soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Serbian Royal Army on the same place (from the World War I). On the peak of Ždreban (engl. Foal) there are ruins of a planned Children Rehabilitation hospital (1950) but investments were insufficient, and there is no planned construction.

Radič Postupović (1413–1441), the senior aristocrat of the Serbian Despotate, founded the Monastery of the Great Annunciation (Veliko Blagoveštenje) in the village of Grabovica, sometime before 1429–30.[9]

Also Grabovica offers to the lovers of night sky, great view on the stars (November–February and July–August), clean air and a diversity of ecosystem. In some parts of this village configuration of the terrain offers (in Parac) a panorama view on Gornji Milanovac and surrondings settlements.

Flag and Coat of Arms

In socialistic era, Grabovica used simbols and flag of Territorial Defense of Yugoslavia like the most of villages in SFR Yugoslavia did. They used them in village sport and civil defense tournaments, as the seal in verification of various documents with indication of village Grabovica (only way to differentiate villages by the name)[10] and tactical squad of civilian units.[11] Now, Grabovica does not have their coat of arms, but there was only one heraldic newdate sollution.

Unofficial coat of arms of Grabovica-Gornji Milanovac

Notable people

Grabovica had/has several notable residents:[12][13][14]

Economy

Many residents depends from Gornji Milanovac industry and economy. Many of them works in the following economic sectors:[15]

Infrastrukture

Through this village passes Road 177 and Regional bypass road Gornji Milanovac-Grabovica-Knić-Kragujevac. This village is connected to Water supply network Banjani (local supply) and Rzav (Moravica district regional supplier). Also, Grabovica is interconnect with Gornji Milanovac local supplier JP "Grejanje" of the Natural Gas network.

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Neighboring settlements with Grabovica

Grabovica is bordering with:[16]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gornjimilanovac.rs/dokumenta/mz/predsednici-mz3.pdf| Presidents of the settlements in Gornji Milanovac; December 2014
  2. ↑ http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Starost%20i%20pol-Age%20and%20sex.pdf|2011 Census of Serbia
  3. ↑ http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Starost%20i%20pol-Age%20and%20sex.pdf|Census 2011 for Serbia
  4. ↑ Most of the names of Hamlets are Turkish origin, excluding Parac which is the word from Greek and Votnjaci which is from Serbian language.
  5. ↑ Živko Perišić "Poreklo imena mog", 2001
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Књига 9, Становништво, упоредни преглед броја становника 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, маy 2004, ISBN 86-84433-14-9
  7. ↑ http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Knjiga4_Veroispovest.pdf%7CRelligion | Religion structure and language in Republic of Serbia, 2011 census
  8. ↑ Population in Serbia by age and sex, Census 2011|http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Starost%20i%20pol-Age%20and%20sex.pdf |Retrieved: November 2014
  9. ↑ Srpska akademija nauka. Istoriski institut (1973). Historical review 20. p. 134.
  10. ↑ Most villages used symbols and flag of Territorial Defense Units of Yugoslavia and the only way to differentiate villages was by the name which were added on the bottom of the flag or logo
  11. ↑ Territorial Defense of SFR Yugoslavia| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+yu0183)| Retriwed: March 2015
  12. ↑ Ivan Dj. Milićević: "Kneževina Srbija", SKZ 1885
  13. ↑ Ana Stolić: "Državni popis stanovništva 1862/63", Zbornici Muzeja Rudničko-takovskog kraja i Medjuopštinski istorijski arhiv u Čačku, 2000 edition
  14. ↑ Milenko S. Filipović: "Naselja i poreklo stanovništva takovskog sreza" SANU, 1995
  15. ↑ Књига 1, Становништво, национална или етничка припадност, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, фебруар 2003, ISBN 86-84433-00-9
  16. ↑ Milenko S. Filipović, "Насеља и порекло становништва (књига 37)-СРПСКИ ЕТНОГРАФСКИ ЗБОРНИК" (књига LXXV)-Takovo Region (In Serbia), Belgrade, 1960

Coordinates: 44°01′N 20°30′E / 44.017°N 20.500°E