Tošin Bunar
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Tošin Bunar is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia
Serbia
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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd or New Belgrade is the most populous municipality that constitutes the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a planned city, built in 1947 on the left bank of the Sava river which was previously an uninhabited area, opposite of the old Belgrade...

.

Tošin Bunar generally refers to an area alongside the Tošin Bunar Street, over 3 km long meridionally stretched street that connects Bežanija
Bežanija
Bežanija is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.- Location :...

, Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd
Novi Beograd or New Belgrade is the most populous municipality that constitutes the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a planned city, built in 1947 on the left bank of the Sava river which was previously an uninhabited area, opposite of the old Belgrade...

 and Zemun
Zemun
Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...

. It begins at Bežanijska Kosa and also passes between the neighborhoods of Studentski Grad
Studentski Grad (Belgrade)
Studentski Grad or colloquially Studenjak is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd...

 (where it crosses the European route E75
European route E75
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 with large interchange
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), Kalvarija
Kalvarija
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 and Paviljoni
Paviljoni
Paviljoni is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.- Location :...

, while in the end, through the short Ivićeva and Bežanijska streets, it enters the center of Zemun.

As a neighborhood, the name is usually applied for a section on the left side of the street, in Novi Beograd's Block 6, south of Kalvarija. It is a rural-like neighborhood with small residential houses with backyards, which leave an impression of almost being digged into the yellow loess
Loess
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 ridge of Bežanijska Kosa, quite visible in this section and whose eastern border the Tošin Bunar street generally follows. With such characteristics, it makes quite a contrast to the rest of Novi Beograd, especially coming from the direction of Fontana
Fontana (Belgrade)
Fontana is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd....

 or Studenski Grad through the AVNOJ Boulevard or Pariske komune street (Paris Commune
Paris Commune
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 street).

Since 2005, the corner of the Tošin Bunar street and the Third Boulevard (Block 37) is in the process of becoming a major commercial area. Third Boulevard for decades was a dead end
Dead End
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 street as many families had temporary refuge in a barracks remained after the street's construction and disconnecting the two streets. Dispute was settled in 2005 and the Third Boulevard was extended to reach the Tošin Bunar street.

The name, Tošin Bunar, is Serbian for Toša's well and it was named after Teodor Toša Apostolović (1745–1810), Serbian merchant and philanthropist
Philanthropist
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who donated the land between Bežanija and Zemun to the Serbian church municipality of Zemun.
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