Braničevo District

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**Браничевски округ**
**Braničevski okrug**
Braničevo District within Central Serbia
Capital	Požarevac
Area – Total – % water	? n/a
Population – Total – Density	200,503 (2002) ?
Commissioner	?
Area code	?
Postal code	?
Time zone	CET, summer CEST

The Braničevo District (Braničevski okrug, Браничевски округ) expands in the north-east of Serbia. It has a population of 253,492. Seat of the District is in the city of Požarevac, a famous cross-roads, with numerous communications running through it still today.

1 Municipalities
2 Population
3 Ethnic groups (2002 census)
4 History and culture
5 Economy
6 See also

[edit] Municipalities

It encompasses the municipalities of:

[edit] Population

Year	Population
1948	246,475
1961	263,344
1971	263,015
1981	263,677
1991	253,492
2002	200,503

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Serbs = 174,818 (87.2 %)
Vlachs = 14,083 (7.0 %)
Roma = 3,188 (1.6 %)
other (4.2 %)

[edit] History and culture

In the mid-nineteenth century, at the time of the Serbian state emancipation, Požarevac became, along with Kragujevac, the second metropolis of Prince Miloš Obrenović. During his lifetime, Prince Miloš Obrenović had erected monuments to his memory in Požarevac:

the church in 1819
palace (1825)
new marketplace (1827)
stud-farm - Ljubicevo in 1860.

Some of the places of cultural importance in Požarevac are:

the National Museum (the first built after Belgrade)
the Tulba Ethnic Park (a unique out-door museum)
Gallery of Paintings of Milena Pavlović-Barili (a distinguished surrealistic artist and poet).

[edit] Economy

Business facilities of this District are concentrated in the vicinity of the cities of Požarevac and Costal. The most prominent is the food-industry giant: Agricultural-industrial Combine Požarevac which provides employment to huge number of men and satisfies one quarter of the overall demands of the Republic of Serbia.