Cvetkova Pijaca

Cvetkova Pijaca or colloquially Cvetko (Serbian Cyrillic: Цветкова пијаца) is an open green market and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

In Roman period, when Belgrade was a fortified city of Singidunum, the area of the modern neighborhood was location of three water systems.

[1] In 1902 Belgrade's entrepreneur Cvetko Jovanović (originally from the Struga region) opened a kafana on the Smederevo road, across the Mokri Lug's farmers' market.

After World War I, the section near Olimp was settled by the Kalmyks from the shores of the Caspian Sea, which fled Imperial Russia after the October Revolution in 1917.

In Budvanska street, they built Belgrade pagoda, a Mongolian-type Buddhist temple in 1929, which was abandoned in 1944 and demolished in the mid 1960s.