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ABOUT KOVIN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONECONOMY IN KOVINTRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE

INDUSTRIAL ZONE PORT ON THE DANUBEHUMAN RESOURCES

EDUCATIONDELIBLATSKA PE ARA

TOURISM, CULTUREHONEY FROM DELIBLATSKA PE ARA

KOVIN

Kovin is the eighth largest municipality in Vojvodina. It stretches over 725 square kilometers. It follows the Danube in the total length of 50 km and in the North comprises more than a half of Delibltska pe ra. Kovin has got an e cellent geo strategic position. It s located at 50 kilometers from Belgrade, 34 kilometers from Pancevo and only 13 kilometers from Smederevo and has got good connections with these cities by road, rail and water traffic. The only bridge on the Danube s downstream from Belgrade to the erd p was built in 1 7 and Kovin became a vital link between Vojvodina and middle and southern Serbia. There is a military airport nearby Kovin, on the way to Belgrade, which is on sale and which in the future could be used as a cargo airport. The Danube iver s bayou , about 1. kilometers long, which passes close to the work zone of Kovin, is used as a port and winter quarters.

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Water transport: The southern border of the municipality Kovin is the Danube, in the length of 50 kilometers, and is navigable through the whole course. The spatial plan envisages the construction of an international port on the Danube, which gives special importance to the municipality.

Airport: the nearby military airport, which is on sale, hasn’t been used for a long period, in the future it can be used as a cargo airport.

Roads: The municipality has a great transit potential. With the construction of the bridge on the Danube, the municipality became an important crossroad. Nearby the town passes a dual carriageway M-24, with a tendency of growing into a highway.

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ROAD TRAFFIC

WATER TRAFFIC

AIR TRAFFIC

TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE

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Kovin has been developed road transport, trade, metal industry, agriculture and construction. Strong economic potential of the municipality is agriculture, which relies on 42.5 thousand hectares of high quality arable land. Economic basis are in deposits of coal, gravel and peat.

he most important companies were tva Silos , udni Kovin , ampi omp , il n , emof rm Koncern branch in ubovac, est farmaceuti al services eograd branch in

Kovin, Slog , Silos , ugoprevo , and ater management company odunavl e . The headquarters of public companies "Metal komunalac" and "Kovin gas" are also in Kovin.

ECONOMY IN KOVIN

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The eneral urban plan of Kovin envisaged the construction of industrial ones on the surface of hectares, with the established work one located in the northern, northwestern and southwestern part of the settlement. n addition to the further development of e isting facilities, these work ones will provide space for the development of new industrial, warehousing, transport and other facilities.

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Belgrade 50 kmPančevo 30 km

Smederevo 13km

INDUSTRIAL ZONE

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The strategic concept of the Municipality of Kovin is to build a port on the Danube, both for current and future needs of the economy, and for other commercial areas. Corridor 7 is certainly a great advantage for Kovin in relation to other municipalities in the region.

Construction of port is supported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of the Republic of Serbia and the Provincial Government. Its construction will enable sail of transoceanic boats of medium capacity, which will make Kovin a new center of Vojvodina traffic.

Port on the Danube

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The product of honey bees is one of the brands that this region highlights ahead. eekeepers are based in Delibltska pe ra, so they can guarantee the quality of honey which depends solely on a mixture of flowers and plants from which bees collect the nectar. Honey is used in nutritional and medicinal purposes due to high concentration of nutrients.

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ora o De b at a e ara h h uarantee oo hone ua t

- Robinia pseudoacacia L. - Fraxinus spp.

- Pinus spp. - Rhamnus spp.

- Juniperus virginiana L.

- Betula verrucosa E.

- Juniperus communis L. - Populus spp.

- Quercus spp. - Cornus mas L.

- Morus spp.

- Cornus sanguinea L.

- Tilia spp. - Rhus cotinus L.

- Juglans nigra L.

- Crataegus monogyna

- Prunus mahaleb L.

- Prunus spinosa L.

- Prunus serotina Ehrh.

- Evonimus europaea L.

- Ligustrum vulgare L.

- Berberis vulgaris L.

HUMAN RESOURCES

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Educationdegree

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126 432 408 805 784 768

Age

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There are two secondary, three elementary schools and one preschool institutions in Kovin. In Gymnasium, high school students are educated for the economic profession, and the Agricultural School facing the education of future employees who will manage large agricultural and environmental capacity of the municipality.

3 elementary schools

2 high schools1 preschool

EDUCATION

Banks of the Danube, offers great possibilities for aqua sports, as well as for hunting - fishing tourism. Also, an environmental awareness is highly developed because of the richness of fauna and ornithology, especially in the field of special nature reserve

TOURISM

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stood there until its demolition by provisions of the Belgrade Peace in 1739.Layout of fortress basics, and its youngest stages, has been preserved on Marsiljijev’s drawings from the eighteenth century. It was composed of two parts separated by a defensive moat. The southern part, which was nearly destroyed, was on an irregular triangular shape, and the northern part of

CULTURE

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DELIBLATSKA PEŠČARA

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