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Obrenovac (Обреновац) is a town and municipality located in Serbia at 44.66° North, 20.21° East. Its name stems from last name "Obrenović" which in turn stems from name "Obren" in Serbian language. In 2003 the municipality has total population of 75,949. Obrenovac is one of Belgrade's 17 municipalities.The Municipality of Obrenovac stretches along the mid part of the Lower Kolubara Basin, penetrating with its eastern and southern sides into Sumadija, down the wide valleys of the rivers Kolubara and Tamnava. In the West it leans against Pocerina brinks, while its northern edges are rimmed by the curving meanders of the river Sava, right before its arrival to Belgrade and confluence with the Danube. It covers the area of 409 square kilometres, out of which 42 have so far occupied the urban parts. Most of the terrain is definitely plain, whereas some parts are rolled and mildly hilly.Significant roads meet in Obrenovac. From Belgrade, only 29 kilometres far toward the East, these roads run westward to Sabac, Loznica and then Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, i.e. to Valjevo and Ibar regional road, farther away toward the Adriatic Coast. Obrenovac has very good connection with Vojvodina, across the new bridge over the Sava, When completed, it gave back to this crossroads town the significance it used to have when the border between Austria-Hungary and Serbia ran along the Sava and Obrenovac, through the Port and Customs in Zabrezje, represented the export link of the Serbian state with the Middle European and West European countries of that age.
Up to the 19th century, it bore the Turkish name of Palež. In the course of the Second Serbian Uprising, it was completely burned to the ground and, in 1859, Prince Miloš Obrenović, after whom it was named, restored it. The Municipality of Obrenovac has been within the community of Belgrade municipalities since 1957.
The Day of the Municipality is December 20, the date of the decree of Prince Miloš Obrenović by which the name of Obrenovac was instituted, and its patron day is the Holy Trinity.
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