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Deponija, Belgrade

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382: 195:, claims ownership of the entire city's right bank of the Danube, including this area, too. The city has been suing the Port for years, where one court would decide that city is the owner, and than the higher court would say differently and so on. Port of Belgrade stated that it is not in their jurisdiction to deal with the problem. The project of relocating population from Deponija to the new container-based temporary settlement in 206:. The only section where the construction will be allowed is the area along the Pančevo Bridge, or some 10% of the total area of 80 hectares (200 acres). This is exactly the area where Deponija is located. Official plan should be adopted in March 2022, and removal and resettling of the existing industrial facilities and slums, and transformation into the park should be finished by 2024. 183:
Houses are made of hot clay and dried mud, cardboard and tin, between the hillocks of garbage and feces-infested ponds of dirty water. For the time being, the problem can't be solved as informal settlements can be turned into formal ones (which would mean the city government would have to introduce
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is constantly being formed. The authorities occasionally remove the garbage, but the pile of waste forms immediately. The pile which was removed in the spring of 2022 had 3,000 cubic metres (110,000 cu ft), and was the largest illegal dump on the territory of the Palilula municipality. In
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It is estimated that Deponija is the largest of the 15 unhygienic settlements in the territory of the municipality of Palilula where altogether 15,000 people live. The exact number of population of Deponija itself is not known and the estimates vary from 900 to 2,000. After cleaning and destruction
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were deported back to Serbia and some of them settled in the area. Already as of 2000/01, name Deponija emerged as a name of the settlement.
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May 2022, city announced that a fenced, public recycling drop-off will be formed on the location, which should solve the problem.
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power, sewage, water) only if they are built on city land, and the ownership of the land that Deponija is built on is disputed.
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In December 2021, city announced that the entire Ada Huja will remain unurbanized, and that it will be transformed into the
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Branka Vasiljević; Dragana Jokić Stamenković; Daliborka Mučibabić, "Poplavljena ulica u Deponiji – leglo zaraze",
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claim it has the worst conditions of any unhygienic settlements in Belgrade, but the case of the
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Major influx of population occurred after the expulsion of the non-
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Along the crossroads of two central streets, a massive
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Index

Serbian
Cyrillic
urban neighborhood
informal settlement
Belgrade
Serbia
Palilula
Pančevo bridge
Danube
Ada Huja
Viline Vode
Bogoslovija
slum
favela
Albanian
Kosovo
Kosovo War
Romani people
Germany
Kartonsko naselje
Novi Beograd
NGOs
Goveđi Brod
Zemun
illegal dump
Port of Belgrade
tycoon
Milan Beko
Reva
urban forest

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