Pomoravlje District

Pomoravlje District Поморавски округ Pomoravski okrug
District of Serbia
Location of Pomoravlje District in Serbia
Country	Serbia
Administrative centre	Jagodina
Government
• Commissioner	n/a
Area
• Total	2,614 km^2 (1,009 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)
• Total	214,536
• Density	82.1/km^2 (213/sq mi)
Municipalities	5 and 1 city
Settlements	191
- Cities and towns	6
- Villages	185

The Pomoravlje District (Serbian: Поморавски округ / Pomoravski okrug) is a district of Serbia which expands in the central part of Serbia. It has a population of 214,536. The administrative centre of the Pomoravlje district is 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, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of 2011.

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

Demographics

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 (2011 census)
Ethnic group			Percentage
Serbs			94.8%
Roma			1.22%
Vlachs			0.90%
Montenegrins			0.12%
Macedonians			0.12%
Romanians			0.11%
Croats			0.09%
Yugoslavs			0.08%
Others			2.51%

Ethnic group	Population
Serbs	203,419
Roma	2,638
Vlachs	1,938
Montenegrins	273
Macedonians	259
Romanians	250
Croats	194
Yugoslavs	178
Others	5,387
Total	214,536

Culture and history

The nineteenth century architecture has been partly preserved in the town. Earlier times are witnessed by the remnants of the edifices such as The House of Hajduk Veljko from the seventeenth 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 seventeenth century at the time of Despot Đurađ Branković's reign, and is regarded 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 all until 1690, when their three-century-long moving together with the Serb people started, as to be finally returned to his endowment today.

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. Over the fifteenth century the famous Resava School carried out its work there, in the framework of several workshops in which major texts of the world heritage were copied and the new ones written. Konstantin the Philosopher, the author of the "Hagiography of Despot Stefan" and the "Book on Letters" which regulated the then current Orthography of Serbian language, carried out his creative work in the Resava Monastery.

See also

• Districts of Serbia
• Administrative divisions of Serbia

External links

• Officijalni sajt Pomoravlja
• Pomoravlje - portal

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

Coordinates: 43°58′N 21°15′E / 43.967°N 21.250°E