Ostružnica

Остружница Ostružnica
Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	City of Belgrade, Čukarica municipality
Population:	3,929 (2002)
Area code:	011
Postal code:	11251
License plates:	BG

Ostružnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Остружница) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Čukarica.

Ostružnica is located on the right bank of the Sava river, at the mouth of the Ostružnička reka, 14 km southwest of Belgrade, south of the Ada Ciganlija island.

It is an urban settlement, with fluctuating number of population. In the last 40 years, it experienced a slow groth, stagnation, depopulation and accelerated growth above the Serbia's average. Population of Ostružnica:

• 1921 - 1,497
• 1961 - 3,871
• 1971 - 4,011
• 1981 - 4,060
• 1991 - 3,628
• 2002 - 3,929

Ostružnica has its own train station on the Belgrade's internal freight railway Batajnica-Surčin-Ostružnica-Železnik-Resnik, as the Sava is crossed by the railway bridge at Ostružnica. It is connected to the Belgrade's major freight train station and marshalling yard of Makiš.

A new Ostružnica road bridge, in the final stages of construction, was bombed during NATO air attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999 and wasn't finished until 2005. It represents one of the major sections of the future Belgrade beltway.

During the First Serbian Uprising, Karađorđe, the leader of the rebellion, summoned the very first national assembly of Serbia in Ostružnica April 24–28, 1804.

References

• Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
• Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6

Coordinates: 44°44′N 20°19′E / 44.733°N 20.317°E / 44.733; 20.317