Šumadija District (Šumadijski okrug)

The Sumadija District expands in the central part of the Republic of Serbia.

It encompasses the municipalities of:

• Arandjelovac
• Topola
• Raca
• Kragujevac
• Batocina
• Knic
• Lapovo

It has a population of 312,160. Seat of the District is in the city of Kragujevac. In the vicinity of Kragujevac stand the medieval monasteries, such as: the Annunciation monastery Divostin from the thirteenth century, the St. Nicholas monastery, believed to have existed at the time of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, and the Draca monastery from unknown times.

In 1833 the first Serb Grammar School south of the Sava and Drina rivers was founded in Kragujevac. Over the last fifty years this city of the Serbian schooling bears a symbol of grief: in the Memorial Park in Sumarice there a monument to the executed pupils and teachers of this Grammar School in World War II. Wanting to give a frightening example to the whole of Serbia, German fascists executed in Kragujevac in one day only, on October 21, 1941, 7,000 citizens, and among them about 300 pupils and 18 teachers of the Kragujevac Grammar School, including 15 boys from 8 to 15-year old.

Today Kragujevac is a modern industrial center of Serbia. The most famous is its Zastava car factory. It made famous Yugo car.

Also prominent are the "21 oktobar" factory of car spare parts, and "Crvena Zvezda" can factory.

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