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Town and municipality in Serbia · Central Serbia

Despotovac

Despotovac is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia.

Despotovac
Despotovac · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Despotovac is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is situated 130 kilometers southeast of Belgrade. Its name stems from Despot, a title of Serbian medieval prince Stefan Lazarević. As of 2022 census, the town has a total population of 3,595, while the municipality has a population of 18,278.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Despotovac

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Manasija monastery

    The Manasija Monastery also known as Resava, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Despotovac, Serbia founded by Despot Stefan Lazarević between 1406 and 1418. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

    3.5 km · Monastery in Serbia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Despotovac

Airports
Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 90 km · Belgrade Nikola Tesla (BEG), 121 km · Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 171 km
  • Niš → Despotovac
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · din550–740
  • Belgrade → Despotovac
    111 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · din660–870
  • Prishtina → Despotovac
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · $16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Despotovac

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Despotovac. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    350 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    368 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    409 km
  4. 04
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    455 km
  5. 05
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    497 km

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Around it

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