Ledine

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Ledine (Serbian Cyrillic: Ледине) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.

Ledine is the easternmost settlement in the municipality, formerly developed as a sort of an informal settlement, outside the projected area of the city of Novi Beograd, today it is urbanisticaly connected to the neighborhoods of Bežanija and Dr Ivan Ribar by the narrow urban strip along the Vionogradska and Surčinska streets. Settlement itself is built between these two streets, both of which connect Belgrade and Surčin, and a continuous built-up area of Belgrade-Ledine-Surčin is being formed along them.

Ledine experiences all the problems of the non-planned neighborhoods of Belgrade, mostly concerning the communal problems. The population of the settlement was 3,688 in 2002, though the news reports about Ledine in 2006 estimated the population at 10,000.

As the settlement originated on the baren meadows outside any urban area, it got its descriptive name, ledine, Serbian for the heaths.