Beljina

Suburban settlement in Barajevo, Belgrade, Serbia

Beljina Бељина
Suburban settlement
A tree in Beljina
44°31′12″N 20°23′44″E / 44.52000°N 20.39556°E / 44.52000; 20.39556
Country	Serbia
City	Belgrade
Municipality	Barajevo
Area ^[1]
• Total	10.11 km² (3.90 sq mi)
Population (2011)^[2]
• Total	775
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	011
Vehicle registration	BG
RZS code	703516^[3]

Beljina (Serbian Cyrillic: Бељина) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Barajevo. Beljina is a small rural settlement with 775 inhabitants as of 2011, located on the northeastern tip of the Kosmaj mountain, 12 km south of the municipal seat of Barajevo.^[2] In 1956 the municipality of Beljina was created, comprising villages of Beljina, Arnajevo, Manić and Rožanci, but already in 1957 the municipality was dissolved and annexed to the municipality of Barajevo.

Old section of the village, known as Čaršija in Beljina [sr], is placed under the state protection as the spatial cultural-historical unit.^[4]

Demographics

In 2011, the settlement contained 270 households with an average of 2.87 members. There were 228 families, with 87% of the population being adults and an average age of 46.2.^[2]

Wildlife

By the 21st century, number of migratory European rollers in Serbia was reduced to some 20 nesting couples, where only few were recorded in Central Serbia and none in the central Šumadija region. The species was widespread by the mid-20th century, but was protected by the state in 1993. In order to try to repopulate the species, ornithologists placed bird houses on top of the trees in Beljina in 2015, but the attempt was unsuccessful. In 2017 the bird houses was moved to the village's utility poles, and rollers began nesting again, starting in 2018, in slowly growing numbers each year.^[5]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1948	977	—
1953	980	+0.3%
1961	954	−2.7%
1971	883	−7.4%
1981	892	+1.0%
1991	873	−2.1%
2002	810	−7.2%
2011	775	−4.3%
Source: ^[6]

References

^ "Насеља општине Барајево" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Population by age and sex, by settlements". Statistical Office for the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
^ "Register of Territorial Units and GIS". Statistical Office for the Republic of Serbia.
^ Branka Vasiljević (13 September 2021). "U planu da se pod zaštitu stavi osam prostornih celina" [Plan for placing eight spatial units under protection]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 15.
^ Branka Vasiljević (28 May 2020). "Jedna od najlepših ptica živi u Barajevu" [One of the most beautiful birds lives in Barajevo]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 14.
^ "Comparative overview of the number of population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011". Statistical Office for the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-05-20.