Location and History
Resnik is located in the southern section of the municipality and makes the southernmost point of the urban Belgrade City Proper. Originally a village distant from Belgrade, which developed between the valleys of the creek of Rakovički potok and the Topčiderka river. The creek of Pariguz flows through the southern parts of Resnik before it empties into the Topčiderka. The settlement is roughly triangularly shaped and bordered by the settlements of Sunčani Breg, Jelezovac, Straževica (north) and Kijevo (north-west) which make Resnik's urban connection to the rest of Belgrade. The other three sides are still not urbanized (fields of Klik, Mandrine, Hladna Voda, Pašinac, etc.).
The village of Resnik had a population of 1,475 in 1921. In 1971, now a suburb of Belgrade, Resnik had 7,553 inhabitants while in 1981, already a local community (mesna zajednica) within Belgrade the population almost doubled to 14,122, while in 2002 reached 16,304.
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