Požarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац, pronounced [pǒʒarevats]) is a city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia.

In Serbian, the city is known as Požarevac (Пожаревац), in Romanian as Pojarevăț or Podu Lung, in Turkish as Pasarofça, in German as Passarowitz, and in Hungarian as Pozsarevác.

[citation needed] There was a city at this locality known as Margus in Latin after the Roman conquest in the first century BC.

Since the 6th century, the area was populated by Slavs, but the Eastern Roman Empire held a nominal control over the region until the 8th century when Balkan Slavs achieved de facto independence from the Eastern Empire.

In the 13th century, the area was ruled by independent local Slavic-Bulgarian rulers, Drman and Kudelin.

[3] The National Museum in Belgrade and Požarevac has some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 are of gold and silver.

Požarevac was the second capital of the Serbian prince, Miloš Obrenović with the first regular state court in Serbia being established here in 1821.

The ethnic composition of the municipal area of the city of Požarevac:[8] The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2022):[9] Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2024 local elections: Požarevac is twinned with: