In the capital city of Belgrade, Serbia

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(in the capital of Serbia) The city of Belgrade, in the north-central part of the country, is located at the convergence of three historically important routes of travel between Europe and the Balkans: an east-west route along the Danube River valley from Vienna to the Black Sea; another that runs westward along the valley of the Sava River toward Trieste and northern Italy; and a third running southeast along the valleys of the Morava and Vardar rivers to the Aegean Sea. The city grew up around an ancient fortress on the Kalemegdan headland that was encompassed on three sides by the Sava and the Danube. The first fortress was built by the Celts in the 4th century BCE and was known by the Romans as Singidunum. It was destroyed by the Huns in 442 and changed hands among the Sarmatians, Goths, and Gepidae before it was recaptured by the Byzantine emperor Justinian. It was later held by the Franks and the Bulgars, and in the 11th century became a frontier town of Byzantium. In 1284 it came under Serbian rule, and in 1402 Stephen Lazarević made it the capital of Serbia. The Ottoman Turks besieged the city in 1440, and after 1521 it was in their hands except for three periods of occupation by the Austrians.

+ During the Turkish period Belgrade was a lively commercial center where goods were traded from various parts of the Ottoman Empire. After the first Serbian uprising under Karadjordje in 1804, Belgrade became the Serbian capital from 1807–13, but the Turks recaptured it. The Serbs were given control of the citadel in 1867, when Belgrade once more became the capital of Serbia.
+ Since World War II Belgrade has become an industrial city, now the largest commercial center in Serbia.

+ The old fortress of Kalemegdan is now a historical monument; its former glacis has been rebuilt as a garden. Belgrade is home to various cultural and educational institutions, including the University of Belgrade. There are many museums and galleries, of which the oldest; the National Museum (Narodni Muzej), was founded in 1844.The city's many theaters, museums, monuments and opera houses boast a deep and fissured cultural life while the beaches and rivers attract sunbathers, sports enthusiasts, and partygoers on the popular floating river barges that serve as nightclubs.

+ At the end of one of the most beautiful tourist routes of Belgrade, which begins with Kalemegdan fortress and extends along the entire downtown, rises a magnificent Cathedral of Saint Sava, the largest active Orthodox church in the world. Conceived as a monument of gratitude to St. Sava, the first Serbian archbishop and educator, who made the independent Serbian church, reconciled Balkan nations, raised Hilandar and many other monasteries and thus created the Serbian state and the Serbian culture, this temple was built on the site where his remains were burned in 1595, at today’s St. Sava plateau.