Podgorac, Boljevac

Podgorac (Serbian Cyrillic: Подгорац; Romanian: Podgorț) is a village in the municipality of Boljevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 2218 people.^[1] The village is situated in the Crna Reka region.

Podgorac Подгорац (Serbian) Podgorț (Romanian)
Village
Osman Bey's Fountain
Podgorac
Coordinates: 43°56′39″N 21°56′42″E
Country	Serbia
District	Zaječar District
Municipality	Boljevac
Population  (2002)
• Total	2,218
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

There is an 18th-century Ottoman Turkish public fountain built with the funds donated by a certain Osman Bey and therefore named (in Serbian) Osmanbegova česma.

The village was a site of operations in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13).^[2][3] The Crna Reka nahija was organized into Revolutionary Serbia, with a seat at Zaječar and the establishment of a magistrate (court).^[4] A Serbian military camp was located at Podgorac.^[4]

For a brief period in 1840/41 school year, Đura Jakšić was a village school teacher here.

Notable people

• Predrag Balašević