Mataruška Banja
Mataruška Banja
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      Mataruška Banja | |
  Mataruška Banja Location within Serbia | |
| Coordinates: 43°41′30″N 20°36′40″E / 43.69167°N 20.61111°E | |
| Country | Serbia |
| District | Raška District |
| City | Kraljevo |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.17 km2 (0.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 2,950 |
| • Density | 1,360/km2 (3,520/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 36201 |
| Area code | 036 |
| Vehicle registration | KV |
Mataruška Banja (Serbian Cyrillic: Матарушка Бања) is a spa town located in the City of Kraljevo, Central Serbia. It is located at the Ibar river, 9 km from Kraljevo. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 2,950 inhabitants. Mataruška Banja is among Serbia's top five most visited spa towns, thanks to its comparatively good public transport connections with nearby Kraljevo and developed tourist infrastructure.[3]
Name
The town of Mataruška Banja is named after the nearby village of Mataruge, with translation of the name meaning Mataruge’s Spa.
History
Hotel Žiča, designed by Milan Zloković, was constructed in 1932 during the existence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[4]
Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 collapse, SFR Yugoslav communist authorities accepted refugees from the Hungarian People's Republic, settling them to Gerovo, Osijek, Mataruška Banja, and Niška Banja.[5] A total of 948 Hungarian refugees were settled in Mataruška Banja, which became a main destination for intellectual refugees.[5]
During the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent Yugoslav Wars, spa hotels and villas were repurposed as refugee reception centres, mainly for Serb refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ "Насеља општине Краљево" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of Serbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ↑ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. p. 84. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ Topalović, Sanja (2013). "Стање и перспективе бањског туризма у Србији" (PDF). Globus. 37–38 (1). Belgrade, Serbia: Srpsko geografsko društvo: 123–134. ISSN 0351-0050.
- ↑ Bradić, Miona; Kordić, Milena (2025). "Theories of leisure: Imagining the future of free time through the case of Mataruška Banja". SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal. 17 (3). Belgrade, Serbia: University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture: 285–311. ISSN 1821-3952.
- 1 2 Kovács, Attila; Nećak, Dušan; Režek, Mateja; Brezigar, Sara (2009). "Madžarska begunska problematika leta 1956 - primer Jugoslavije in Slovenije". Razprave in gradivo - Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja (1990) (in Slovenian). 58 (1). Ljubljana, Slovenia: Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja: 196–247.
- ↑ Savković, Mirko (2024). "Белешке за историју избегличког центра у Матарушкој Бањи" [Notes for the History of the Refugee Centre in Mataruška Banja]. Naša prošlost (in Serbian). 23 (1). Kraljevo, Serbia: Historical Archives of Kraljevo & National Museum Kraljevo: 131–151. ISSN 0550-4317.
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