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20-565: Vladislav Petković was born in Zablaće, a village near Čačak , in the Principality of Serbia. He made his way to Čačak, graduating from the Gymnasium and Teacher's College in 1902. He was appointed temporary teacher at Prlita , a village near the town of Zaječar . He did not like teaching, and his small output of poetry brought him little income. In 1903, he moved to Belgrade , and became prominent in

40-444: A customs official with the municipal government, giving him a good income and leisure time to write. He was named co-editor, with Sima Pandurović , of Literary Week (Književna nedelja). Both Petković-Dis and Pandurović were considered the enfants terribles of their literary world (both being under the influence of Charles Baudelaire and other French Symbolists, like Šantić, Dučić, Rakić, Ćorović, and even Skerlić before he abandoned

60-532: A monument: It has a long life, Today it descends into new legends, To prepare our descendants for the next monument. Petković Dis was writing in 1913, just after Serbia wrested Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire and installed an obelisk on the site of the famous medieval battle when Kosovo was severed from Serbia by the Ottomans. Dis's poetry was not well received at the beginning by Jovan Skerlić , one of

80-455: A municipality is composed of a town (seat of the municipality) and surrounding villages (e.g. the territory of the Municipality of Čoka is composed of the town of Čoka , which is the seat of the municipality, and surrounding villages). The municipality bears the name of the seat town. Only one municipality, ( Gora ) does not share the name with the seat town, as the seat of that municipality is

100-994: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Serbia The municipalities and cities ( Serbian : општине и градови , romanized :  opštine i gradovi ) are the first-level administrative division and the basic level of local government of Serbia . The country is divided into 145 municipalities (38 in Southern and Eastern Serbia , 42 in Šumadija and Western Serbia , 37 in Vojvodina and 28 in Kosovo and Metohija ) and 29 cities (9 in Southern and Eastern Serbia, 10 in Šumadija and Western Serbia, 8 in Vojvodina and one in Kosovo and Metohija). Municipalities and cities form 29 administrative districts in groups, except

120-569: Is elected on local elections (held every 4 years), while the President and the Council are elected by the Assembly. Municipalities have their own property (including public service companies) and budget. Only the cities officially have mayors ( Serbian : градоначелници , romanized :  gradonačelnici ), although the municipal presidents are often informally referred to as such. The territory of

140-424: Is otherwise very similar to municipality. There are 27 cities, each having an assembly and budget of its own. Only the cities have mayors ( Serbian : градоначелници , romanized :  gradonačelnici ), although the presidents of the municipalities are often referred to as "mayors" in everyday usage. As with a municipality, the territory of a city is composed of a city proper and surrounding villages (e.g.

160-977: The Balkans . In May 1917, via Rome and Naples , he arrived in Gallipoli, Italy . At 9 pm on May 29, after two days of waiting, he boarded the French passenger steamship Italia destined to Corfu, from where he was supposed to join the Serbian army fighting on the Salonica front . At 5:51 am on May 30, Italia was sunk by torpedo by the Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat U-4 , 46 miles southeast of Santa Maria di Leuca , Italy. He introduced irrational and subconscious images into Serbian lyric poetry . Some of his most famous poems are Možda spava ( She May Be Sleeping ) and Spomenik ( Monument ). In Spomenik , Dis dreamed of

180-638: The First Balkan War he was conscripted by the military as a journalist. He was the war correspondent covering battles of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War (1912), Second Balkan War (1913), and World War I that followed. In 1915 he joined the Serbian army in their retreat to Corfu . From Corfu, Petković was sent to France to recuperate and write about the entire tragedy. He stayed in Marseille , Nice and Les Petites Dalles , eager to return to

200-526: The Novi Sad (307,760) and New Belgrade (212,104). Of these six cities, only Novi Sad did not undergo the full transformation, as the newly formed municipality of Petrovaradin exists pretty much only formally; thus, the City municipality of Novi Sad is largely equated to city of Novi Sad. The city of Kragujevac had its own city municipalities from 2002 until 2008. In 2013, the city municipality of Sevojno within

220-569: The City of Belgrade which is not part of any district. Like in many other countries, municipalities ( Serbian : општине , romanized :  opštine ) are the basic entities of local government in Serbia. The head of the municipality is the President of the municipality , while the executive power is held by the Municipal council , and legislative power by the Municipal assembly . Municipal assembly

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240-498: The city of Užice was established. Serbian law still treats Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia (officially the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ), although Kosovo declared independence in 2008. The Law on Territorial Organization defines 28 municipalities and 1 city on the territory of Kosovo. Kosovo was under official United Nations' administration ( UNMIK ) from 1999 to 2008. The UNMIK administration changed

260-452: The largest in Europe , both by territory and number of residents, and as such can be inefficient in handling citizens' needs and distributing the income from the country budget into most relevant projects. Cities ( Serbian : градови , romanized :  gradovi ) are another type of local self-government. The territory with the city status usually has more than 100,000 inhabitants, but

280-635: The literary life there, when his poems appeared in Idila , a literary magazine. Petković chose his appellation " Dis " as a repetition of the middle syllable of his first name (Vla-DIS-lav), but also as the name of the Roman god of the underworld. He was a frequent evening visitor to the Belgrade's kafanas in Skadarlija and elsewhere where he would drink and compose new verses at the same time. He obtained an appointment as

300-548: The most distinguished Serbian literary critics of that time, who did not care for the poems' morbid and sinister tone. His poem Cvetovi slave ( Flowers of Glory ) was translated into English by Djuradj Vujcic. Prlita Prlita is a village in the municipality of Zaječar , Serbia . According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 142 people. 43°50′58″N 22°21′00″E  /  43.84944°N 22.35000°E  / 43.84944; 22.35000 This Zaječar District , Serbia location article

320-408: The movement). After the demise of the magazine, he married Hristina-Tinka, with whom he had two children, Gordana and Mutimir. He wrote Spomenik (Monument) in anticipation of World War I : And it still seems that, as my soul dreams on, the monument lives on, ready for eternity, reborn into new traditions, tempering young ambitions to erect the next monument. During the outbreak of

340-549: The territorial organisation on the territory of Kosovo. In 2000 the municipality of Gora was merged with Opolje (part of the Municipality of Prizren ) into the new municipality of Dragaš and one new municipality was created: Mališevo . Later, from 2005 to 2008, seven new municipalities were created: Gračanica , Elez Han , Junik , Parteš , Klokot , Ranilug and Mamuša . However, the Government of Serbia does not recognise

360-403: The territorial re-organisation of Kosovo, although some of these new-formed municipalities have Serb majority, and some Serbs participate in local elections. In three of those municipalities: Gračanica, Klokot-Vrbovac and Ranilug, Serbian parties won a majority in the 2009 elections . By the 2013 Brussels Agreement , Serbia agreed to disband its parallel municipal institutions in Kosovo, while

380-750: The territory of the City of Subotica is composed of the Subotica town and surrounding villages). Every city (and municipality) is part of a administrative district. The exception is the capital Belgrade , which is not part of any district. The city may or may not be divided into city municipalities ( Serbian : градске општине , romanized :  gradske opštine ). Six cities: Belgrade, Novi Sad , Niš , Požarevac , Užice and Vranje comprise several city municipalities. Competences of cities and these municipalities are divided. The municipalities of these cities also have their assemblies and other prerogatives. Two largest city municipalities by number of residents are

400-474: The town of Dragaš . This municipality is located in Kosovo, and thus exists only on paper. The territory of the municipality was merged with part of the Municipality of Prizren in 2000 by UNMIK to form new Municipality of Dragaš . This move is not recognised by Government of Serbia (see Municipalities and cities of Kosovo section). Advocates of reform of local self-government system point out that Serbian municipalities (with 50,000 citizens in average) are

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