BELGRADE_DANUBE AND SAVE CONFLUENCE,Serbia,Montenrgro,Turkey in Europe,Antique Map

HISTORICAL MAP CHART

Belgrade (Serbian, , Beograd ), is the capital of Serbia since 1404 . The city lies on the outfall of the Sava river to the Danube river in northern central Serbia, at 44.83° N 20.50° E. Where the Vinc(a culture existed and dominated the Balkans about 8000 years ago, Belgrade counts as the one of the oldest European and maybe world cities. Settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celtic before becoming the Roman settlement of Singidunum, the site passed to the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. Singidunum experienced occupation by successive invaders of the region - Huns, Sarmatians, Ostrogoths and Avars - before the arrival of the Serbs around 630 AD. In 878 the city was renamed Beligrad ("white fortress" or "white town") under the rule of the Bulgarian kingdom. (Belgrade could also mean "East Town" because the Slavic word "beli" means "east" too.) It passed again through Byzantine and Bulgarian rule before emerging as a city of the medieval Serbian kingdom. The first Serbian king to rule Belgrade was Dragutin (1276-1282), who received it as a present from the Hungarian king. Belgrade was subsequently occupied by the Kingdom of Hungary, whose forces under John Hunyadi defended it in the siege of Nándorfehérvár of 1456. In 1521, the fort was captured by the Ottoman Turks, and Belgrade remained under Ottoman rule for nearly three centuries. Thrice occupied by Austria (1688-1690, 1717-1739, 1789-1791), the city was briefly held (1806-1813) by Serbian forces during the first national uprising against Ottoman rule, and in 1817 became the capital of an autonomous principality of Serbia (except in the period from 1818-1839, when Kragujevac was the country's capital city). With the departure of its Turkish garrison (1867) and Serbia's full independence (1878) and elevation to a kingdom (1882), Belgrade became a key city of the Balkans. But despite the opening of a railway to Niš, Serbia's second city, conditions in Serbia as a whole remained those of an overwhelmingly agrarian country, and in 1900 the capital had only 69,000 inhabitants.

1890s Wood Engraving, Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 7 X 10 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate INTEXT MAP - Excellent Condition. Beautiful with excellent detail. There is Text on Front and Back Side.