Cvetni Trg or Flower Square (Serbian

Serbian language

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 Cyrillic: Цветни трг) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade

Belgrade

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, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Vračar

Vracar

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.

Location

Cvetni Trg is a small, triangularly shaped neighborhood in what was the central part of the previously large neighborhood of Vračar. In terms of modern administrative divisions, it is located in the western part of the municipality of Vračar, on the Belgrade's main street of Kralja Milana

Milan Obrenovic IV

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and the border of the municipality of Savski Venac

Savski Venac

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. Other two streets that mark the borders of the neighborhood are Njegoševa

Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš

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and Svetozara Markovića

Svetozar Markovic

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, but the term generally comprises few adjoining blocks to the north and east, making a local community with a population of 25,759 in 2002. Cvetni Trg is located right across the Yugoslav drama theatre

Yugoslav drama theatre

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 and the Manjež

Manjež

Manjež Park is a public park situated in the centre of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.It is located in the heart of the city, in an area bounded by the Nemanjina, Resavska, King Milan and Svetozar Marković streets. It derives its name from the French word manege from the Royal Horse Guards which...

park.

History

Area of Cvetni Trg was one of the Vračar's area covered in the vast forests of oak

Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...

 and ash tree

Ash tree

Fraxinus is a genus flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45-65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name...

s. Forest was cut long time ago to make place for urban development (small open green market and future supermarket) with only one tree surviving today. A 30 meters tall pedunculate oak

Pedunculate Oak

Quercus robur is commonly known as the Pedunculate Oak or English oak. It is native to most of Europe, and to Anatolia to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa.-Taxonomy:Q...

 (Serbian: hrast lužnjak) with a crown

Crown (botany)

The crown of a plant refers to the totality of the plant's aboveground parts, including stems, leaves, and reproductive structures. A plant canopy consists of one or more plant crowns growing in a given area....

 diametar of 18 meters, is believed to be 200 years old now. Since 1980 it has been protected by the state as the natural treasure.

Cvetni Trg got its name because of the many flower shops located there, which survived until early 2000s when most of them were closed. The dominant feature of the neighborhood since 1958 became the first and, at that time, the largest modern supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

 in the Balkans

Balkans

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, the first one with shelves and baskets. As a curiosity, it was the first store to sell coca-cola

Coca-Cola

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 cans in this part of the world. Since 1960 it became part of the Serbia's largest store chain, Centroprom and for decades remained the Belgrade's supermarket with highest revenues. It was renovated in 1990 acquiring modern, marbled appearance. However, as C-market (successor of Centroprom) was bought by Delta Holding

Delta Holding

Delta Holding is the third largest company in Serbia. The company was founded in Belgrade. Delta Holding performs a variety of services, such as import-export,real-estate , banking, insurance, retail, wholesale, etc. The president is Miroslav Mišković...

 system, the supermarket was closed on November 1, 2006 and the thorough reconstruction began to change its purpose from grocery market to the BMW

BMW

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 car salon which is to be open on February 7, 2007. As of 2011 it is again a supermarket (branded Maxi Exclusive).

In early 2000s, the section of Njegoševa street north of Cvetni Trg was closed for traffic, paved with stone and turned into a series of small stairs-like plateaus, used as patio

Patio

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s for local coffee shops, thus enlarging the area of the square.