- Tošin Bunar
Tošin Bunar (Serbian
Cyrillic : Тошин Бунар) is an urban neighborhood ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality ofNovi Beograd .Tošin Bunar generally refers to an area alongside the Tošin Bunar Street, over 3 km long meridionally stretched street that connects
Bežanija ,Novi Beograd andZemun . It begins at Bežanijska Kosa and also passes between the neighborhoods of Studentski Grad (where it crosses theEuropean route E75 with large interchange),Kalvarija andPaviljoni , while in the end, through the short "Ivićeva" and "Bežanijska" streets, it enters the center of Zemun.As a neighborhood, the name is usually applied for a section on the left side of the street, in Novi Beograd's Block 6, south of Kalvarija. It is a rural-like neighborhood with small residential houses with backyards, which leave an impression of almost being digged into the yellow
loess ridge of Bežanijska Kosa, quite visible in this section and whose eastern border the "Tošin Bunar" street generally follows. With such characteristics, it makes quite a contrast to the rest of Novi Beograd, especially coming from the direction of Fontana or Studenski Grad through the "AVNOJ Boulevard" or "Pariske komune" street (Paris Commune street).Since
2005 , the corner of the Tošin Bunar street and the Third Boulevard (Block 37) is in the process of becoming a major commercial area. Third Boulevard for decades was adead end street as many families had temporary refuge in a barracks remained after the street's construction and disconnecting the two streets. Dispute was settled in 2005 and the Third Boulevard was extented to reach the Tošin Bunar street.The name, "Tošin Bunar", is Serbian for "Toša's well" and it was named after
Teodor Toša Apostolović (1745-1810), Serbian merchant andphilanthropist who donated the land between Bežanija and Zemun to the Serbian church municipality of Zemun.References
* "Beograd - plan grada"; M@gic M@p, 2006; ISBN 86-83501-53-1
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