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Belgrade
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Belgrade Fortress

The Belgrade Fortress, consists of the old citadel and on the confluence of the and rivers, in an urban area of modern , .
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: fortress in Serbia
  • Also known as: “Fortress (Belgrade)”, “Fortress Belgrade”, “Fortress in Belgrade”, and “Kalemegdan Fortress”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kalemegdan and Damat Ali Pasha Turbe.

Park
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The Park, or simply is the largest park and the most important historical monument in . It is located on a 125-metre-high cliff, at the junction of the River and the .

Photo: Derzsi Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Damat Ali-Paša's Turbeh is an Ottoman mausoleum erected in 1784 in , Serbia. It holds the body of the Ottoman general and Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha.

Historic building
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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Fountain is an Ottoman era fountain in . It is located next to the Defterdar's Gate near the northwestern wall of the Upper Town of Belgrade Fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kosančićev venac and Dorćol.

Locality
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is an urban neighborhood of , the capital of . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of . It has been described as the most valuable and most representative veduta of Belgrade.

Neighborhood
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is an affluent urban neighborhood of , the capital of . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of . Located along the right bank of the , is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Belgrade.

Suburb
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Belgrade is the capital of the Republic of . It stands at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, where the rolling Pannonian Plain fetches up against the rugged Balkan peninsula, and in 2022 had a population of 1.2 million, about a fifth of Serbia's total.

Belgrade Fortress

Latitude
44.82351° or 44° 49′ 25″ north
Longitude
20.44994° or 20° 26′ 60″ east
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
Operator
ЈП „Београдска тврђава“
Open location code
8GP2RCFX+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 450824126
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Geo­Names ID
6697034
Wiki­data ID
Q1409017
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Belgrade Fortress” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kalaja e Beogradit”
  • Arabic: “قلعة بلغراد”
  • Armenian: “Բելգրադի ամրոց”
  • Bashkir: “Белград ҡәлғәһе”
  • Basque: “Belgradeko gotorlekua”
  • Belarusian: “Белградская крэпасць”
  • Belarusian: “Бялградская крэпасць”
  • Bosnian: “Beogradska tvrđava”
  • Bulgarian: “Белградска крепост”
  • Bulgarian: “Белградската крепост”
  • Chinese: “貝爾格勒要塞”
  • Chinese: “贝尔格莱德堡垒”
  • Czech: “Bělehradská pevnost”
  • Dutch: “Beogradska tvrdjava”
  • Esperanto: “Fortikaĵo Beogrado”
  • Estonian: “Belgradi kindlus”
  • French: “forteresse de Belgrade”
  • French: “Forteresse de Belgrade”
  • French: “forteresse de Kalemegdan”
  • Georgian: “ბელგრადის ციხესიმაგრე”
  • German: “Festung von Belgrad”
  • Greek: “Φρούριο του Βελιγραδίου”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת בלגרד”
  • Hungarian: “Nándorfehérvári vár”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Beograd”
  • Italian: “Fortezza di Belgrado”
  • Japanese: “カレメグダン要塞”
  • Japanese: “ベオグラード要塞”
  • Latvian: “Belgradas cietoksnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Belgrado tvirtovė”
  • Macedonian: “Белградска тврдина”
  • Macedonian: “Белградска Тврдина”
  • Romanian: “Kalemegdan”
  • Russian: “Белградская крепость”
  • Serbian: “Beogradska tvrđava”
  • Serbian: “Београдска тврђава”
  • Serbian: “Београдско утврђење”
  • Serbian: “Калемегданска тврђава”
  • Serbian: “Калемегданско утврђење”
  • Serbian: “Тврђава (Београд)”
  • Serbian: “Тврђава Београд”
  • Serbian: “Тврђава Београда”
  • Serbian: “Тврђава у Београду”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beogradska tvrđava”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beogradska Tvrđava”
  • Slovenian: “Beograjska trdnjava”
  • Swedish: “Belgrads fästning”
  • Turkish: “Belgrad Kalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Белградська фортеця”

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