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.
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