Stari košutnjak Стари Кошутњак
Urban neighbourhood
Stari košutnjak Location within Belgrade
Coordinates: 44°45′24″N 20°27′05″E / 44.75667°N 20.45139°E / 44.75667; 20.45139
Country	Serbia
Region	Belgrade
Municipality	Rakovica
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381(0)11
Car plates	BG

Stari Košutnjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Кошутњак) is a neighborhood located in Rakovica, municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Rakovica municipality Kanarevo brdo and Miljakovac,^[1] and municipalities of Čukarica, Savski venac and Voždovac.

History

The neighborhood's original name was the Railway colony (Serbian: Železnička kolonija). At the beginning of the 1920s, the Ministry of Railroad started building a neighborhood for their workers.^[2] Even today, the neighborhood is filled with old trains and their parts, so its primary purpose still remains in a way.^[3]

Geography

It is located in the southern part of the municipality, at its border with the municipality Savski venac. Around the neighborhood, there are 4 forests: Košutnjak, White Palace forest, Banjica forest, and Miljakovac forest.^[1] River Topčiderka flows through the whole neighborhood. It is 8 kilometers from the center of Belgrade (~5 miles). Close to this neighborhood is the park Topčider and a forest with a similar name – Košutnjak.^[4] And in its very close vicinity is also the luxurious neighborhood Dedinje, which connects the neighborhood to Slavija, a part of Belgrade's center with the most traffic.^[5]

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