Native name	Земун
Official name	Zemun
District	Belgrade
Settlement type	Municipality
Image shield	Grb-zemun.jpg
Area km2	153.56
Population total	145751
Mpop	152950
Settlements	4
Website	www.zemun.rs
Plates	BG
Postal code	11080
Code	11
Mayor	Branislav Prostran (SNS)

Zemun (Serbian Cyrillic: Земун, ) is a town in Serbia and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the country's capital. For most of its history, it developed separately from Belgrade, which lies across the Sava river, but the development of New Belgrade in the late 20th century joined them together in a continuous urban area.

Name

In ancient times, the Celtic and Roman settlement was known as Taurunum. The Frankish chroniclers of the Crusades mentioned it as Mallevila, a toponym from the 9th century. This was also a period when a Slavic name Zemln was recorded for the first time. Believed to be derived from the word zemlja, meaning earth, it was a basis for all other future names of the city: modern Serbian Земун (Cyrillic) or Zemun (Latin), Hungarian Zimony and German Semlin.

History

, found in Zemun]] The area of Zemun has been inhabited ever since the Neolithic period. Baden culture graves and ceramics (bowls, anthropomorphic urns) were found in the town. Bosut culture graves were found in nearby Asfaltna Baza. The first Celtic settlements in Taurunum area originate from the 3rd century BC when the Scordisci occupied several Thracian and Dacian areas of the Danube. The Romans came in the 1st century BC, Taurunum became part of the Roman province of Pannonia (Moesia) around 15 AD. It had a fortress and served as a harbour for the Pannonian (Roman) fleet of Singidunum (Belgrade). The pen of Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) was said to be found in Taurunum. After the Great Migrations the area was under the authority of various tribes and states. Intermittently held by the Byzantine Empire, it was conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary in the 12th century. In the 15th century it was given as a personal possession to the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. After the nearby Serbian Despotate fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1459, Zemun became an important military outpost. It finally fell to the Ottomans on July 12, 1521. In 1541, Zemun was integrated into the Syrmia sanjak of the Buda pashaluk.

Zemun and the southeastern Syrmia were taken by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1717, after the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Peterwardein (5 August 1716) and through the Treaty of Požarevac (German: Passarowitz) became an alloidal property of the Schönborn family. In 1736, Zemun was the site of a peasant revolt. Its strategic location near the confluence of the Sava and the Danube placed it in the center of the continued border wars between the Habsburg and the Ottoman empires. The Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 finally fixed the border, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rights of a military commune in 1749. In 1754, the population of Zemun included 1,900 Orthodox Christians, 600 Catholics, 76 Jews, and about 100 Roma. In 1777, the population of Zemun numbered 1,130 houses with 6,800 residents, half of which were ethnic Serbs, while another half of population was composed of Catholics, Jews, Armenians and Muslims. Among Catholic population, the largest ethnic group were Germans. From this period originates the increased settlement of Germans and Hungarians in the Zemun.

Zemun prospered as an important road intersection and a border city. In 1816 it was greatly expanded by mass resettlement of Germans and Serbs in the new town suburbs of Franzenstal and Gornja Varoš, respectively. In the 19th century, Zemun reached 7,089 residents and 1,310 houses. Zemun also became important in Serbian history as the refuge for Karađorđe in 1813 as well as many other people from the nearby Belgrade and the rest of Serbia which was still under Ottoman rule.

During the Revolution of 1848-1849, Zemun was one of the de facto capitals of Serbian Vojvodina, a Serbian autonomous region within Habsburg Empire, but in 1849, it was returned under the administration of the Military Frontier. With the abolishment of the Military Frontier in 1882, Zemun and the rest of Srem was included into Croatia-Slavonia, an autonomous land part of the Hungarian kingdom. The first railway line that connected it to the west was built in 1883, and the first railway bridge over the Danube followed shortly thereafter in 1884.

During the World War I in 1914, Zemun changed hands between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, finally ending up in Serbia on November 5, 1918. The town became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia). The inter-war period was marked by political struggle between the city gentry (organized into the Serbian Radical Party, Serbian Democratic Party and the Croatian Peasant Party) and the more socialist parties supported by the ethnic Germans.

In 1934 two intra-city bus lines were introduced connecting Zemun with the parts of Belgrade, and the general shift of attention towards this issue was supported by the growing Serbian population of Zemun. The Zemun airbases originally built in 1927 were an important geostrategic objective in the Axis invasion of April 1941.

After the fall of Slobodan Milošević's regime, Zemun became a stronghold of notorious Zemun clan, one of principal organized crime cartels in Belgrade. Bosses and prominent members of this clan have been tried and convicted for the assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić.

Geography

from Zemun]]

Zemun originally developed on three hills, Gardoš, Ćukovac and Kalvarija, on the right bank of the Danube, where the widening of the Danube begins and the Great War Island is formed at the mouth of the Sava river. The core of the city are the neighborhoods of Donji Grad, Gardoš, Ćukovac and Gornji Grad. To the south, Zemun continues into Novi Beograd with which it makes one continuous urban area (neighborhood of Tošin Bunar). In the west it extends into the neighborhoods of Altina and Plavi Horizonti and to the north-west into Galenika, Zemun Polje and further into Batajnica.

The municipality is located in the eastern Syrmia region, in the central-western section of the Belgrade City area. The urban section of Zemun is the both most northern and western section of the urban Belgrade. Zemun borders the province of Vojvodina on the west (municipality of Nova Pazova), and municipalities of Surčin on the south, Novi Beograd on south-east and Palilula and Stari Grad across the Danube (north and east, respectively).

The Danube bank in the north is mostly marshy, so the settlements are built further from the river (Batajnica) separated from it by hillocks (up to 114 m). The city of Zemun itself was built right on the bank, 100 meters above sea level. These are points of the Zemun loess plateau, an extension of the Syrmia loess plateau, which continues into the crescent-shaped Bežanijska Kosa loess hill on the south-east. The yellow loess is thick up to 40 meters and very fertile, with rich, grass-improved, humus chernozem. The uninhabited river islands of Great War Island and Little War Island on the Danube, also belong to the municipality Zemun, too. Municipality has an area of 153 km².

Neighbourhoods and suburbs

Municipality of Zemun has only two official settlements: (City of) Zemun, which is part of the urban Belgrade city proper (uža teritorija grada; statistically it is classified as Belgrade-part) and the village of Ugrinovci (with two hamlets of Grmovac and Busije). Many of the neighbourhoods developed in the last few decades (Altina, Plavi Horizonti, Kamendin, Grmovac, Busije, etc.).

Urban:

{| |- valign=top |

Altina

Bački Ilovik

Batajnica

Crveni Barjak

Ćukovac

Donji Grad

Franjine Rudine

Galenika

Gardoš

Gornji Grad

|

Goveđi Brod

Jelovac

Kalvarija

Kamendin

Kolonija Zmaj

Lido

Mala Pruga

Malo Ratno Ostrvo

Marija Bursać

Meandri

|

Muhar

Nova Galenika

Novi Grad

Plavi Horizonti

Retenzija

Sava Kovačević

Sutjeska

Šangaj

13. Maj

Veliko Ratno Ostrvo

|

Vojni Put

Vojni Put I

Vojni Put II

Zemun

Zemun Bačka

Zemun Polje

Zemunski Kej

Železnička Kolonija

|}

Suburban:

{| |- valign=top |

Busije

|

Grmovac

|

Ugrinovci

|}

Population

As Zemun grew into one of the most populous neighborhoods of Belgrade, population of the municipality had a steady growth since the World War II. Population of the Zemun (in present borders) by the official censuses of population:

{|class="wikitable" !Year !City !Municipality* |- |1921 || align="right"| 18,528 || |- |1931 || align="right"| 28,083 || |- |1948 || align="right"| 42,230 || |- |1953 || align="right"| 44,110 || align="right"|51,129 |- |1961 || align="right"| 72,956 || align="right"|74,851 |- |1971 || align="right"| 95,142 || align="right"|111,967 |- |1981 || align="right"|116,826 || align="right"|138,702 |- |1991 || align="right"|141,695 || |- |2002 || align="right"|145,751 || align="right"|152,950 |}

Municipality figures include populations of today's Surčin municipality, which separated from Zemun in 2004.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Serbs = 133,988 (87.61%)

Roma = 4,030 (2.64%)

Yugoslavs = 3,315 (2.17%)

Croats = 1,970 (1.29%)

Others.

Administration

Municipality of Zemun became part of the Belgrade City Area (Teritorija grada Beograda) with the division of Yugoslavia into banovinas by king Alexander I on October 3, 1929. On April 1, 1934, municipality itself was absorbed into the municipality of Belgrade, so the post of the president of the municipality of Zemun was abolished and "Zemun section administrator" was appointed to the Belgrade's city government. In 1941-44 it was occupied by the German army as the Okupationsgebiet Ostsyrmien. Germany technically recognised Zemun and surroundings as part of the Independent State of Croatia puppet regime but Zemun remained under direct German rule. After 1945 Zemun was administratively divided into the City of Zemun and Zemun district (srez), unlike rest of Belgrade which was divided into raions. In 1955 both City of Zemun and most of the Zemun district were incorporated into Belgrade again. In 1950s and 1960s, municipalities of Boljevci and Dobanovci were annexed to the municipality of Surčin while Batajnica was annexed to Zemun itself. In 1965 Surčin was annexed to the municipality of Zemun which marked the largest territorial expansion of Zemun (438 km²). However, on November 24, 2003 Belgrade City assembly voted to re-create the municipality of Surčin, but it remained under the administration of Zemun until November 3, 2004, when separate municipal government was established after the local elections. A motion for Batajnica to split from Zemun too was active for a while in early 2000s (see List of former and proposed municipalities of Belgrade).

Presidents of the municipality:

October 3, 1929 - June 20, 1930; Petar S. Marković

June 20, 1930 - December 8, 1931; Svetislav Popović

December 9, 1931 - March 31, 1934; Miloš Đorić

Administrator of the Zemun section

1934 - April 12, 1941; Nikola Folger

German mayors:

April 13, 1941 - July 1941; Johannes Moser (d. 1980)

July 1941 - December 1941; Stefan Seifert

December 1941 - October 1944; Johannes Moser (2nd time)

Partisan military administrator:

October 22, 1944 - October 26, 1944; Milan Žeželj (1917–95)

Presidents of the municipal assembly:

October 26, 1944 - July 8, 1945; Ljubomir Milovanović

July 8, 1945–1947; Dimitrije Anokić

1947 - 1949; Milenko Jovanović

1949 - 1950; Božidar Tomić (b. 1914)

1950; Lazar Popov (acting)

1950 - 1955; Stojan Svilarić (b. 1920)

1955 - 1958; Branko Pešić (1922–86)

1958 - 1962; Aleksandar S. Jovanović

1962 - 1967; Čedomir Jovićević

1967 - 1971; Svetozar Papić

1971 - 1973; Radojko Filipović

1973 - 1974; Pavle Ilić (acting)

1974 - 1978; Branko S. Radivojević (b. 1932)

1978 - 1982; Ilija Kragović

1982 - 1986; Novak Rodić

1986 - 1989; Petar Stolica

1989; Dobrivoje Perović

1989 - 1992; Živko Davidović (b. 1935)

1992 - December 1996; Nenad Ribar

December 1996 - April 1998; Vojislav Šešelj (b. 1954)

April 1998 - October 17, 2000; Stevo Dragišić (b. 1971)

October 17, 2000 - November 4, 2004; Vladan Janićijević (b. 1934)

Presidents of the municipality:

November 4, 2004 – June 4, 2008; Gordana Pop-Lazić (b. 1956)

June 4, 2008 – March 5, 2009 Slavko Jerković

March 5, 2009 – July 23, 2009 Zdravko Stanković (acting)

July 23, 2009 – present; Branislav Prostran (b. 1976)

There is a popular local rivalry between inhabitants of Zemun and Belgrade going on for decades, especially among youth. In general, local population consider Zemun still a separate, and more advanced and cultural city and point out they were born in Zemun rather than Belgrade, while Belgraders consider Zemun an outer, austro-Hungarian suburb of Belgrade.

Economy and transportation

Zemun is one of the most developed municipalities of Belgrade, with developed industries in almost every branch. Zemun has two large and still growing industrial zones, one located along the highway and the other one along the road to Batajnica and further to Novi Sad (Galenika, Goveđi Brod, etc.). Industries include: heavy agricultural machines and appliances (Zmaj), precise and optical instruments and automatized appliances (Teleoptik), clocks (INSA), busses and other heavy vehicles (Ikarbus), pharmaceuticals (Galenika), plastics (Grmeč), shoes (Obuća Beograd), textile (TIZ, Zekstra), food, candies and chocolate (Soko Štark), metals (IMPA, Intersilver), wood and furniture (Gaj, Reprek), recycling (INOS metali and INOS papir), beverages (Coca Cola, Navip), chemicals (Roma), building materials (DIA, Anicom), electronics, leather, etc. In addition to this dozens of halls, and warehouses are built throughout both industrial zones.

Several important roads of Serbia run through the municipality. The Belgrade-Zagreb highway, the old (Batajnički drum) and new (highway) road Belgrade-Novi Sad, the still in construction starting point (Batajnica-Dobanovci) of the future Belgrade beltway (Batajnica-Bubanj Potok), Belgrade-Novi Sad railway, etc. Zemun has no bridges, apart from the seasonal pontoon bridge which connects the mainland with the Great War Island during summer. First bridge over the Danube, Galenika-Borča bridge is still in project.

Batajnica Airbase with a limited civil traffic is also located in the municipality, near the Batajnica settlement.

Culture and education

The faculty of agriculture of the Belgrade University is located in Zemun, as well asmany other important higher schools (Internal affairs, Economics, Technics and machines, Medicine, Zemun gymnasium) and institutes (Institute for agriculture and forestry, Institute for mining, world famous Institute for corn in Zemun Polje, Institute for livestock, Institute for the implementation of the nuclear energy in agriculture, Institute for physics). Zemun has a Homeland museum and Madlenianum Opera and Theatre.

Two of Belgrade's major hospitals-clinical centers are located in Zemun: "KBC Zemun" and "KBC Bežanijska Kosa", so as the retirement home "Bežanijska Kosa", the largest one in Belgrade. Churches include the Gardoš cemetery church and the Hariš chapel, Saint Nicholas, Saint Archangel Gabriel and two Roman Catholic churches.

Zemun is known for many squares, though almost all of them are small in size: Magistratski, Senjski, Veliki, Branka Radičevića, Karađorđev, Masarikov, etc. On one of them, the Zemun open green market is located. The bank of the Danube is turned into Zemunski Kej, a kilometers long promenade, with various entertainment facilities along it, including barges-cafés, amusement park and especially formerly largest hotel in Belgrade, Hotel Jugoslavija.

The remnants of the old town which existed during battles of Hungarians and Byzantines in 12th century are known as Zemunski Grad (Zemun Town). Today visible ruins however are of the medieval fortress (angular towers and parts of the defending wall) where forces of Kingdom of Hungary, 500 šajkaši crew (led by Croat Marko Skoblić) consisted of Croats and Serbs fought against invading Ottoman army of Suleyman the Magnificent in 1521. Despite hard resistance, Zemun fell on July 12 and Belgrade soon afterwards (see Fall of Belgrade (1521)). On this place, the Kula Sibinjanin Janka (The tower of Janos Hunyadi) or the Millennium tower was erected. It was built and officially opened on August 20, 1896 to celebrate a thousand years of Hungarian settlement in the Pannonian plain. The tower was built as a combination of various styles, mostly influenced by the Roman elements. Being a natural lookout, it was used by Zemun's firemen for decades. Today, the tower is better known after the Janos Hunyadi, who actually died in the old fortress four and a half centuries before the tower was built. In general, Gardoš is today the most recognizable symbol of Zemun. For the most part, the neighborhood preserved its old looks, with narrow, still mostly cobblestoned streets unsuitable for modern vehicles, and individual residential houses.

Zemun is not rich in parks. The largest one is the City park (Gradski park, built in 1880, scheduled for reconstruction in 2008 ) and another one is Jelovac in Kalvarija. A small park on Mažuranić square was renovated in November 2007. It is first in Belgrade that has rubber ground under two children playgrounds.

Sport

The city has several stadiums, including those of the FK Zemun and Milutinac, with BSK Batajnica in Batajnica. One of Belgrade's major sports halls, Pinki, is located in Zemun too.

Several football squads were existing in Zemun. Before 1945, in time of Independent State of Croatia, a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, in Zemun there were four Croat football clubs:

HŠK Građanski

HŠK Zemun

HŠK Dunav

HŠK Hajduk

and two German football clubs:

DSV Victoria

SK Liet

Also, city of Zemun gave clubs like Šparta (worker's club) and ZAŠK, that in 1939 merged into SK Zemun .

Later, Zemun gave a football squad that occasionally played in Yugoslav 1. division, Galenika, later renamed into FK Zemun. Today, there're also squads Teleoptik, Zmaj and Milutinac.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Zemun is twinned with: {| cellpadding="10" |- valign="top" | ar-Ram, Palestinian National Authority Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bitola, Macedonia Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Herceg Novi, Montenegro Kranj, Slovenia || Corfu, Greece London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom Mödling, Austria Offenbach am Main, Germany Ohrid, Macedonia Osijek, Croatia || Puteaux, France Rif Dimashq, Syria Tilburg, Netherlands Velletri, Italy Veroia, Greece |}

See also

Subdivisions of Belgrade

List of Belgrade neighborhoods and suburbs

References

Bibliography

Mala Enciklopedija Prosveta, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2

Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6

Notes

See also

Zemun monastery

External links

Municipality of Zemun

Category:Populated places in Central Serbia Category:Places in Syrmia Category:Municipalities of Belgrade Category:Neighborhoods of Belgrade Category:Populated places on the Danube Category:Roman towns and cities in Serbia Category:Historic Jewish communities

Name	Stanislav / Stanislaus
Gender	male
Meaning	stani ("to become") + slava ("glory, fame")
Origin	Slavic
Alternative spelling	Stanisław, Stanislao, Stanislas, Estanislao, Станіслав, Stanislovas, Stanislavs

Stanislav or Stanislaus (English, Latin) - is a very old Slavic origin given name, meaning someone who achieves glory or fame. It is most often given in the Slavic countries of Central and South Eastern Europe. The name has spread to many non-Slavic languages as well, such as French (Stanislas), German and others.

Variations

Polish language

In Polish language, the name Stanisław has the following diminutives: Stach, Staś, Stasio, Stasiek, Staszek.

Variants: Stasław, Tasław.

Its feminine form is Stanisława.

Stasiek, Stasio, Stach may also be a surname.

Other derived surnames:

Stachow, Stachowiak, (fem.: Stachowiakowa, Stachowiakówna) Stachowicz Stachowska Stachowski Stachurka Stachwiak

Stanisławski (fem. Stanisławska), Stanczak

Stasiak, Stasicki, Stasiewski, Stasiński, Staśkiewicz, Stasik

Staszak (Staszakowa), Staszewski, Staszkiewicz, Staszynski

Slovene language

In Slovene language, the name Stanislav is usually abbreviated either to Stanko, Stane or Slavko.

Other

Станіслаў / Stanisłaŭ (Belarusian), Stanislav (Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Slovak and Slovene), Станіслав (Ukrainian), Станислав (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian), Stanislas (French), Stanislaus (German, Latin), Stanislovas (Lithuanian), Staņislavs (Latvian), Stanislao (Italian), 'Estanislau (Portuguese), and Estanislao'' (Spanish).

Name	Saint Stanislaus
Feast day	April 11, May 7, May 8 (Christian Church)

Name	Stanisław August Poniatowski
Image name	Stanisław II August Poniatowski in coronation clothes.PNG
Date of birth	January 17, 1732
Place of birth	Wołczyn, modern Belarus
Date of death	February 12, 1798
Place of death	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Place of burial	St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw
Election date	7 September 1764
Election place	Wola near Warsaw
Coronation date	25 November 1764
Coronation place	St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw
Family	Poniatowski
Coa name	Ciołek
Father	Stanisław Poniatowski
Mother	Konstancja née Czartoryska

Website	http://www.lem.pl

Playername	Stanislas Wawrinka
Nickname	Stan, Stan the Man, Rink, King of the Wrink,
Country	Switzerland
Residence	Saint-Barthélemy, Switzerland
Datebirth	March 28, 1985
Placebirth	Lausanne, Switzerland
Turnedpro	2002
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Careerprizemoney	$3,144,246
Singlesrecord	141–115
Singlestitles	2
Highestsinglesranking	No. 9 (9 June 2008)
Currentsinglesranking	No. 23 (3 May 2010)
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Frenchopenresult	3R (2005, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledonresult	4R (2008, 2009)
Usopenresult	4R (2007, 2008)
Doublesrecord	35–42
Doublestitles	0
Othertournamentsdoubles	Yes
Olympicsdoublesresult	Gold Medal ()
Highestdoublesranking	No. 90 (6 November 2006)
Grandslamsdoublesresults	yes
Australianopendoublesresult	3R (2006)
Frenchopendoublesresult	3R (2006)
Wimbledondoubleresult	1R (2006, 2007)
Usopendoubleresult	1R (2005)
Updated	9 November 2009

Whs	Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
State party
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, iv
Id	229
Region	Europe and North America
Year	1983
Session	7th
Link	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/229

List of people with this given name

Saints

Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030–1079)

Stanisław Kazimierczyk (1433-1489)

Stanislaus Kostka (1550–1568)

Monarchs

Stanislaus of Masovia, Duke of Masovia (1501–1524)

Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (1677–1766)

Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland (1732–1798)

Art, film and television

Stanislas (comics), French comic book creator

Estanislao del Campo, an Argentine poet

Stanislas de Guaita, a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism

Stanisław Szukalski(1893–1987) was a Polish-born painter and sculptor.

Stanislav Bartůšek (born 1961), Czech television journalist

Stanislav Govorukhin (born 1936), Russian film director

Stanislav Holý (1943–1998), Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, and designer of animated films

Stanislav Ianevski (born 1985), Bulgarian actor who plays Viktor Krum in the movie adaption Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Stanislav Kolibal (born 1925), Czech artist

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), Polish science fiction author and philosopher

Stanislav Lyubshin (born 1933), Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981)

Stanislas Merhar, French actor of Slovene descent

Stanislao Nievo, an Italian writer, journalist and director.

Stanislav Sokolov (born 1947), Russian stop-motion animation director

Stanko Vraz, Slovenian-Croatian poet

Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), Polish playwright, painter and poet

Military and politics

Stanislas Marie Adelaide, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, a French politician

Stanislas de Boufflers, a French statesman and writer

Stane Dolanc, Slovenian and Yugoslav Communist politician

Stanislav Galić, Serbian commander

Stanislav Gross (born 1969), Czech politician, member of he Czech Social Democratic Party

Stanislav Galimovich Hazheev, Minister of Defence in Transnistria

Stanislav of Kiev, last Kiev ruler of the Rurik Dynasty

Stanisław Koniecpolski, a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), magnate, official (starost and castellan), voivode of Sandomierz from 1625, and Field and later Grand Crown hetman (second highest military commander, after the king) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Stanislav Kosior (1889–1939), Polish-born Soviet politician

Estanislao López, a governor and caudillo of the , between 1818 and 1838

Stanisław Maczek, was the most accomplished Polish tank commander of World War II. His division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, where it closed the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions

Stanisław Narutowicz, (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Narutavičius), a Polish-Lithuanian lawyer and politician, one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania and brother to the first president of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz. He was also the only Polish member of the Taryba, the provisional Lithuanian parliament formed in the later stages of World War I

Stanislav Petrov (born c.1939), retired Soviet Air Defense Forces lieutenant colonel

Stanislav Poplavsky (1902–1973), general in the Soviet and Polish armies

Stanislav Shushkevich (born 1934), Belarusian politician and scientist

Stanisław Sosabowski, a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade

Stanislav Zimprich (1916–1942), Czech pilot who flew with the RAF in the Battle of Britain

Stanisław Żółkiewski a Polish nobleman, magnate and military commander who took part in many campaigns both in Poland and on its southern and eastern border. He held a number of notable posts in the administration of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Music

Stanislav Binički (1874–1942), Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue

Stanislav Bunin (born 1966), Russian-born pianist

Stanislao Gastaldon, an Italian composer primarily of light music

Stanislao Mattei, an Italian composer, musicologist, and teacher

Stanisław Moniuszko, a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, generally referred to as the father of Polish national opera.

Stanko Premrl, author of the music for the Slovenian national anthem

Sports

Stanislav Angelov (born 1978), Bulgarian footballer

Estanislao Basora, a former Spanish Catalan footballer

Stanislav Cherchesov (born 1963), Russian football manager and former international goalkeeper

Stanislav Chistov (born 1983), Russian ice hockey player

Stanislav Genchev (born 1981), Bulgarian footballer

Estanislao Goya, an Argentine professional golfer

Stanislav Griga (born 1961), Slovak retired football player and manager

Stanislav Henych (born 1949), Czechoslovakian cross-country skier

Stanislas Julien, a French sinologist

Stanislav Lopukhov (born 1972), Russian breaststroke swimmer

Stanislav Loska, Czech paralympic athlete

Stanislav Manolev (born 1985), Bulgarian footballer

Stanislav Medvedenko (born 1979), Ukrainian basketball player

Stanislav Morozov, Ukrainian pairs figure skater

Stanislav Neckář (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player

Stanislav Nedkov (born 1981), Bulgarian mixed martial arts fighter

Stanislav Osinsky (born 1984), Kazakhstani backstroke swimmer

Stanislav Pozdniakov (born 1973), Russian fencer

Stanisław Rola (born 1957), Polish race walker

Stanislav Rumenov (born 1980), Bulgarian footballer

Stanislav Šesták (born 1982), Slovak football striker

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Name	Aleksandar Vuksanović
Background	solo_singer
Alias	Aca Lukas
Given name	Aleksandar Vuksanović
Born	November 03, 1968Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height	176 cm
Origin	Partizan
Instrument	vocals, keyboards
Genre	Folk, Turbo-folk, Folk-pop
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1990–present
Label	Grand Production
Associated acts	Viktorija
Notable instruments	piano

Aca Lukas (Аца Лукас) born on 3 November 1968 is a popular Serbian folk singer.

Biography

Aca Lukas was born in Belgrade as Aleksandar Vuksanović (Александар Вуксановић). He got the name Aca Lukas from: Aca, nickname for Aleksandar and "Lukas" by the famous riverboat club in Novi Beograd, where he spent much time performing as a teenager and gained huge popularity. His breakthrough as a musician Aca got on a cult "splav" Hogar (raft night club) on Ada Ciganlija. He came to Hogar as a replacement for legendary Mile Lojpur where he joined Milan Scepovic and Sasha Lunginovic. They started performing various music genres, from jazz to Gypsy. Aca started mixing them into special potpourris that became his trademark in years to come. His appearance was an overnight success. After "Hogar" and "Lukas", he moved on to the next stage by playing with rock singer Viktorija. Then he started a solo career. His first big hit was song called "Pesma od bola". Than he continued with other hits "Kafana na Balkanu", "Bele ruže" and many more. In 2003 he was arrested in police action "Sablja" because he possessed a non-reported gun. He was having drug and gambling problems that removed him from scene for two years. He made a comeback in 2006. He won 1st prize on "II Axal Grand Festival" in 2008. with song called "Upali svetlo". Nowadays, Lukas is renowned artist in Serbia and has some discographic success. His last concert was in Belgrade Arena (03.11.2008) on his birthday in front of more than 25,000 people.

On the night of 3. February 2009, Lukas was shot at from a gun, by an unknown assailant. The assailant fired two hits, but Lukas survived with just a wounded leg. When he came out of the hospital, he said: "Dobro se osećam. Hvala Bogu, nije mi ništa. Pustili su me iz Urgentnog centra i dobro mi je!" (translation: "I am feeling well. Thank god, nothing is wrong with me. I was released from the ER and I am feeling good.") Lukas was shot in front of Gandijeva street no. 66, while he was entering his vehicle "Porsche Cayenne".

Career

In 1995, his colleges forced Aca to record his first album right after he has gained great success with hit song "Kuda idu ljudi kao ja", that becomes a pop-folk hit. In that mix of pop, rock and folk music, Aleksandar Radulovic Futa and Marina Tucaković borrows music from Greece and Turkey and next year they made him a hit-album, with hit of the year, a song called "Pesma od bola" along with other hits like for example "Ja zivim sam", "Nije ti ovo Amerika" etc.

In 1999, he performs at his first triumphal concert in Belgrade Hala Pionir in front of around 10,000 young people. After the tour around the country, stadium Tasmajdan Sports Centre is also conquered. In the meantime, Aca publishes two albums for international market with his live performing at clubs and pubs that he likes so much.

In 2002, Aca publishes his best album so far called "Nesto Protiv Bolova" with hit songs "Coma", "Nesto Protiv Bolova", "Suncokreti". After his concert at Belgrade Fair in front of nearly 20,000 fans the medias pronounced him as the most popular Serbian folk singer.

After he spends four months in jail, Aca is back with new hit album "Istina je da te lazem", but not too long after he published it Aca leaves the country saying that he is "sick" from everybody who tries to push him off the scene.

He came back to Serbia in 2006 performing at "Melos dani Estrade" in Čačak as "the star of the night". His comeback album was called "Jagnje Moje" with different authors but also with great songs "Udari Prva", "Jagnje Moje".

In February 2008, Aca Lukas wins 1st prize at "II Axal Grand Festival" with song "Upali Svetlo". Not long after that he publishes his last album so far called "Lesce" with very provocative cover with him lying down in coffin showing "middle finger"; as he says "To all of them who talked that I'm dead". This album brought great songs such as "Pao Sam Na Dno", "By Pass", "Lesce" etc.

On his 40th birthday on 3. November 2008, Aca performed at a concert in Belgrade Arena in front of nearly 25,000 fans.

Discography

Studio albums

Ponos i laž (1995) ("Pride and lie")

Pesme od bola (1997) ("Songs of pain")

Lična karta (1999)("ID")

Rođendan (2000) ("Birthday")

Nešto protiv bolova (2001) ("Painkiller")

Istina je da te lažem (2004) ("The Truth is I'm lying to you")

Jagnje moje (2006) ("My lamb")

Lešće (2008) (Cemetery in Belgrade)

Cover albums

Jedno veče u kafani (1998) ("One Night at the Pub")

Drugo veče u kafani (1999) ("The Second Night at the Pub")

Još sam tu (za drugove) (1999) ("I am still here (for my friends)")

Zora beli... (1999) ("The Dawn Whitens...")

Aca Lukas & O.K. Band (2000)

Live albums

Najveća žurka na Balkanu (1999) ("Biggest party in Balkan")

Žurka (2002) ("Party")

Compilations

The Best of Aca Lukas (2000)

Aca Lukas - Hitovi (2008)

References

Lukas ispunio obećanje

Aca Lukas zapalio Arenu

Osvojio Skoplje

External links

Aca Lukas New Fan Forum

Aca Lukas bloger

Aca Lukas Blog

Aca Lukas Diskografija Lista Albuma

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