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  Barajevo  

The Barajevo Community encompasses the area of 213 square kilometers and has the population of 26.000 according to the latest registration. The inhabitants live in the communities of Barajevo, Arnajevo, Bacevac, Beljina, Bozdarevac, Veliki Borak, Vranic, Guncate, Lisovic, Manic, Meljak, Rozance and Siljakovac.
The first settlements on the territory of The Barajevo Community appeard five thousand years ago in both Neolites
The history of Barajevo is very exciting. Prince Sima Markovic and Pavle Popovic from Vranic together with the great hero Milisav Camdžija played a very important role in the First Serbian Uprising. Milisav Camdžija was the first of the rebels who eneterd the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade.
Among many cultural-historic monuments, remarkable are Log Cabin Church from the 18th century, protected by the state as a national-cultural heritage, and the Elementary School in Vranic built in 1848 which is now the studio of well known ceramists Paula and Branko Stajevic. The treasury of the church in Vranic preserves valuable archeological objects, ancient coins, arms, icons, church books, documents, old photographs and over 10 000 books.
House of the Matic Family is a typical shumadian two-part house with a second-floor porch. It was restored and preserves about 350 objects of ethnographic value. The old Ljubinkovich Inn in Beljina should be mentioned, Roman Bridge in Beljina, too, as well as the centre of Beljina Community protected by the state as an ambience whole.
The old building of the Elementary School in Bozdarevac built in 1891 and Milovanovic Family House built in 1802 in Veliki Borak, which served as a rebels' post office during the First Uprising, represent valuable monuments of this region history.
Saint Angel Michael's Church (1813-1819) in Beljina preserves the icons of Jesus Ascension and Jesus Birth which represent the priceless historical and cultural value.