Pomoravlje District

Pomoravlje District

Поморавски округ
Pomoravski okrug
Pomoravlje District Поморавски округ ; Pomoravski okrug
District of Serbia
	Images from the Pomoravlje District
	Location of the Pomoravlje District within Serbia
	Coordinates: 43°58′N 21°15′E / 43.967°N 21.250°E
Country	Serbia
Region	Šumadija and Western Serbia
Administrative center	Jagodina
Government
• Commissioner	Goran Milosavljević
Area
• Total	2,614 km2 (1,009 sq mi)
Population (2022 census)
• Total	182,047
• Density	82.1/km2 (213/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	RS-13
Municipalities	5 and 1 city
Settlements	191
- Cities and towns	6
- Villages	185
Website	www.pomoravski.okrug.gov.rs

The Pomoravlje District (Serbian: Поморавски округ / Pomoravski okrug, pronounced [pômǒraʋskiː ôkruːɡ]) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It expands to the central parts of Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 214,536 inhabitants. The administrative center is the city of Jagodina.

Municipalities

Map of the Pomoravlje District

The Pomoravlje District contains 6 municipalities (singular: општина, opština - plural: oпштине, opštine). The following table shows the names of each municipality in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and the population of each as of 2011:

Municipality	Cyrillic	Municipal Pop.	Urban Pop.
Jagodina	Јагодина	71,852	37,282
Ćuprija	Ћуприја	33,356	22,302
Paraćin	Параћин	54,267	24,573
Svilajnac	Свилајнац	23,391	9,131
Despotovac	Деспотовац	22,995	4,212
Rekovac	Рековац	10,971	1,930

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1948	225,392	—
1953	240,512	+1.31%
1961	254,521	+0.71%
1971	262,055	+0.29%
1981	270,474	+0.32%
1991	264,108	−0.24%
2002	227,435	−1.35%
2011	214,536	−0.65%
2022	182,047	−1.48%
Source: ^[1]

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Pomoravlje District has 214,536 inhabitants. 45.35% of the population lives in the urban areas.

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in the Pomoravlje District
Ethnic group			Percentage
Serbs			94.8%
Roma			1.22%
"Vlachs" (Romanians)			0.90%
Montenegrins			0.12%
Macedonians			0.12%
Romanians (self-declared)			0.11%
Croats			0.09%
Yugoslavs			0.08%
Others			2.51%

Ethnic group	Population	%
Serbs	203,419	94.82%
Romani	2,638	1.23%
"Vlachs" (Romanians)	1,938	0.90%
Montenegrins	273	0.13%
Macedonians	259	0.12%
Romanians (self-declared)	250	0.12%
Croats	194	0.09%
Yugoslavs	178	0.08%
Others	5,387	2.51%
Total	214,536

Society and culture

Culture

The nineteenth century architecture has been partly preserved in the district. Earlier times are testified by the remnants of edifices, such as The House of Hajduk Veljko from the eighteenth century. Particularly interesting is the Old Church of Archangel Michael, the endowment of Miloš Obrenović, built in 1818.

The Jošanica Monastery was built in the late fourteenth century at the time of Despot Đurađ Branković's reign, and is regarded as the finest medieval building of this region. In the vicinity of Ćuprija stands the Ravanica Monastery with the Church of Assumption, the endowment of Prince Lazar, built between 1375 and 1377. After the death of Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović in the Battle of Kosovo, his holy relics were safeguarded there until 1690, when their three-century-long resettlement with the Serb people started, only to have finally been returned to his endowment, which are there to this day.

The Resava-Manasija monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of Despotovac. The Resava endowment of Despot Stefan Lazarević was built between 1407 and 1418. During the fifteenth century, the famous Resava School carried out its work there, in the framework of several workshops in which major texts of world heritage were copied and new ones written. Konstantin the Philosopher, the author of the "Hagiography of Despot Stefan" and the "Book on Letters", which regulated the Orthography of the Serbian language at that time, carried out his creative work in the Resava Monastery.

Education

There is one faculty located in the Pomoravlje District that is within the University of Kragujevac:

Faculty of Education in Jagodina

References

^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 11 January 2017.

Note: All official material made by the Government of Serbia is public by law. Information was taken from www.srbija.gov.rs.

External links

[1] "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 11 January 2017.

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