In Your Pocket City Guides
Belgrade In Your Pocket is a free guide in English language. A free copy of this guide can be found in Belgrade hotels, hostels, Belgrade Airport arrival terminal, train station, Belgrade Tourist organization Information centres, embassies, foreign cultural and trade centres, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, 3 business centres and Ušće shopping center, as well as in offices of guide’s sponsors. This copy is also available to all guests and members of various cultural and sport manifestations.
The guide can be downloaded from In Your Pocket web portal http://www.inyourpocket.com/serbia/belgrade , .
The first edition of Belgrade In Your Pocket guide was printed in 10.000 copies, covering the period April-June 2008, and distributed at the mentioned locations from April 15. Due to a large demand and constant growth of the distributive network, Belgrade In Your Pocket guide publish nowadays every two months with the circulation of 20.000 copies.
Novi Sad In Your Pocket guides are published twice a year, before the Exit festival and New Year Eve, with the circulation of 25.000 copies. The guide can be downloaded from In Your Pocket web portal http://www.inyourpocket.com/serbia/novi-sad.
In cooperation with The Tourist Organisation of Niš, Niš In Your Pocket guide is published twice a year with the circulation of 10.000 copies . The guide can be downloaded from In Your Pocket web portal: http://www.inyourpocket.com/serbia/Nis.
Belgrade Guide
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The origins of Belgrade
Looking far back into history, before anything we know, we see the place where Belgrade is now under the great Pannonia sea. This sea, while withdrawing, left the Danube to us. The Danube follows old, long gone naval courses of old Europe. The Danube always invited people to inhabit its banks. The remains from the oldest prehistoric, that is Palaeolithic findings prove just that. They are situated in a mine near Lestane, near Bajloni market, in a cave near Cukarica as well as the remains from Neolithic period found in Vinca, Zarkovo and the Upper town of Belgrade fortress.
The official history of Belgrade started seven thousand years ago, which makes our city one of the oldest cities in Europe. It’s old, very old our Belgrade!
Long before Jesus Christ, a new, powerful people of that time, the Celts or Gales came among quiet, peace loving natives to the Balkan Peninsula and founded Belgrade on the confluence of the Sava and the Danube. In the 4th century B.C. the warrior Celtic tribe Skordisk stepped on the hill above the two rivers and founded a small city-fortress naming it Singidunum. It is the first and the oldest name of Belgrade. The word “dunum” in the old language of the Celts means “fortress”, and this etymology of the name gives our capital a role it is to have through the centuries – to be a barricade, a shield, the place of fights and defence. So Belgrade was founded!
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