Ugrinovci

Suburban settlement in Serbia

44°52′42″N 20°11′13″E / 44.87833°N 20.18694°E / 44.87833; 20.18694Country

SerbiaArea

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• Total50.33 km² (19.43 sq mi)Elevation

66 m (217 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total10,807 • Density210/km² (560/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Ugrinovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Угриновци) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Location

Ugrinovci is located in the eastern section of the Syrmia region, in the western part of the municipality of Zemun, near the administrative border of the municipality of Vojvodina. It is located on the Batajnica-Dobanovci road. In the northern direction to Batajnica, which is 8 kilometres (5 miles) away, is the new sub-neighborhood of Busije, while in the northern direction to Dobanovci (4 kilometres (2 miles), over the Belgrade-Zagreb highway) is the also new sub-neighbourhood of Grmovac, both being populated since the mid-1990s with refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which almost doubled the population of Ugrinovci.^{[citation needed]}

Demographics

The population of Ugrinovci has been steadily growing for the last four decades. The population according to the official censuses:

1948 - 1,769
1953 - 1,728
1961 - 1,895
1971 - 2,258
1981 - 3,278
1991 - 4,007
2002 - 7,199
2012 - 10,807

Ethnic structure

In 2002, 97.33% of residents were Serbs and 0.55% were Romani.

Characteristics

Ugrinovci is a village with the majority of its population employed in agriculture. Since the detachment of the municipality of Surčin from Zemun in 2003, Ugrinovci has remained the only separate settlement in the municipality of Zemun, as all the other settlements (Batajnica, Zemun Polje, former city of Zemun, etc.) are part of the Belgrade city proper (uža teritorija grada).

The name of the village comes from the medieval name for Hungarians (Ugri).