Kruševac Крушевац
—  Town  —
Coat of arms
Location of Kruševac within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°35′N 21°19′E / 43.583°N 21.317°E / 43.583; 21.317
Country	Serbia
District	Rasina
Settlements	101
Government
- Mayor	Desimir Pavlović (DS)
Area [1]
- Municipality	854 km2 (329.7 sq mi)
Population (2002 census)[2]
- Municipality	133.732
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	37000
Area code	+381 37
Car plates	KŠ
Website	www.krusevac.org.rs

Kruševac (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушевац, listen (help·info)) is a city and a municipality located in Serbia at 43.58° North, 21.32° East. According to the 2002 census it had a population of 75,256 (municipality: 133,732). Kruševac is the administrative center of the Rasina District of Serbia.

[edit] History and monuments

Kruševac in 1933.

Kruševac was founded in 1371.^[3] It was in Kruševac that the Serbian noble, Prince Lazar, assembled a Serb army to march against the Turks, at the Battle of Kosovo, in 1389. The site of his palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the tower of Queen Milica, whither, according to legend, tidings of the defeat were brought to her by crows from the battlefield. Within the enclosure stands a church, dating from the same time. Several old Turkish houses were left at the beginning of the 20th century, besides an old Turkish fountain and bath, which was known as Alacahisar during Ottoman rule.

There is also a large monument dedicated to the Battle of Kosovo (Бој на Косову, Boj na Kosovu). As a part of the monument there is a statue of the famous Serbian poet and gusle player Filip Višnjić.

[edit] Municipality

Municipality of Kruševac has 101 settlements of which only the municipality center Kruševac is urban.

List of the settlements in the municipality:

[edit] Demographics (2002 census)

[edit] Politics

Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2008 local elections^[4]:

[edit] Famous residents

• Miodrag Petrović Čkalja
• Predrag Jovanović
• Radmila Savićević
• Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković
• Radmila Živković
• Taško Načić
• Radoš Bajić
• Milija Vuković
• Vojin Ćetković
• Nataša Šolak
• Nebojša Bradić
• Dobrica Ćosić
• Stanislav Binički
• Petar Miladinović
• Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović
• Milan Milovanović
• Predrag Vesić
• Marko Živić
• Dejan Miletić
• Goran Grbović
• Miroslav Mišković
• Stojan Protić
• Petar Stojadinovic (Peter Novak), Serbian-American Inventor & Businessman

[edit] International relations

[edit] Twin towns — Sister cities

Kruševac is twinned with:

• Pistoia, Italy (1966)
• Trogir, Croatia (1972)
• Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1972)
• Corfu, Greece (1985)
• Szentendre, Hungary (1990)
• Qiryat Gat, Israel (1990)
• Rimnicu Vilcea, Romania (2003)

Other forms of cooperation and city friendship similar to the twin/sister city programmes:

• Volgograd, Russia (1999)
• Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (2000)
• Ryazan, Russia (2000)
• Žalec, Slovenia (2006)
• Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006)

[edit] References

[edit] Gallery

Lazarica church.	Belfry.	Middle Ages era ruins in Kruševac.	Lazar Hrebeljanović's statue in Kruševac.
Filip Višnjić's statue in Kruševac.	Kruševac panorama.	Kruševac panorama.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Independent web portal
• Business portal Krusevac
• Krusevac online
• City newspaper
• Krunet-Krusevacki portal
• Swimming club Napredak

[edit] See also

• List of cities in Serbia
• http://plavosrce.com /razvojna inicijativa oblasti/

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