Šalinački lug
Topographic map of the area around Smederevo, the Danube and Šalinac

07Map and Surroundings

The Morava meets the Danube.

Godomin Field · City of Smederevo

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44°41′24″ N   21°00′59″ E

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Smederevo

A city and fortress on the Danube, ten kilometres west of the Lug.

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Danube

The second-longest river in Europe. It is three kilometres from the Lug.

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Godomin Field

The plain built up by the Velika Morava with its sediment.

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Šalinački lug

A forest in the arc of the old Morava meander, surrounded on all sides by the village.

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Kulič

A fortress near where the Velika Morava flows into the Danube — and the second village on the edge of the Lug.

Aerial view: the forest in the middle, around it the village of Šalinac in the arc of the old Morava meander, and at the bottom right the Velika Morava Šalinac old Morava meander Velika Morava

From above

An island in a ring of village.

The village grew up on the inner side of the old Morava meander, and the forest remained in the middle — like the pith in the growth rings.

From the Lug

Everything is close.

  • Danube3 km, north
  • Velika Morava1.5 km, east
  • Smederevo10 km, west
  • Kuličfortress near the mouth of the Morava

Coordinates

44°41′24″ N21°00′59″ E

Šalinac, City of Smederevo · about 70 m above sea level

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