Senjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Сењак, pronounced [sêɲaːk]) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia.

Located in Savski Venac, one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center of the city, it is an affluent neighborhood containing embassies, diplomatic residences, and mansions.

Especially bad was the fire in the late September 1857, when almost all stacks of hay stored in the Belgrade Fortress burned.

The road section on the northern slope, between Senjak and western part of Točidersko Brdo, is today named Bulevar Vojvode Putnika.

Today, the continuous Topčider-Košutnjak parks and forests make the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue.

Lower classes had various advantages living in Senjak at the time: their workplaces were close when the public transportation grid wasn't that much developed, the costs of living outside of the city were lower, they could grow their food and fruits, there was a direct tram line to downtown and the railway also passed through the settlement.

This left room for numerous workers houses to be demolished, too, and they were massively being sold due to the increased prices of the land.

[1] During the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, a number of buildings in the neighborhood such as the Swiss ambassador's residence were damaged or affected by the conflict.

It borders the neighborhoods of Topčider and Careva Ćuprija (south), Mostar (north), Prokop and Dedinje (east).

Those unlucky were taken into a nearby woods and shot, with their remains lying in unmarked graves for decades until they were exposed by construction workers clearing trees for a new football field.

[citation needed] Bulevar vojvode Mišića, encircles Senjak from the north, west and south and separates it from the Belgrade Fair, Careva Ćuprija and Topčider.

[9] In 2019, Branislav Mitrović, architect and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said that "caricatural architecture, inept compilations and stylish nonsense" turned once respectable residential neighborhood of Senjak, so as Neimar and Dedinje, into chaos.

[10] In January 2021, city administration announced Topčiderska Zvezda as the most likely location of the future monument dedicated to the heroes from the 1916 Battle of Mojkovac.

[12] Park Military High School in the south-central area of the neighborhood covers 3.4 hectares (8.4 acres).

His own room was equipped with bed, small cabinet with the sink, locker, lamp, sable and chandelier.

[15] After 1945 residents changed and mostly included the high-ranking members of the new Communist elite and in that period majority of the exhibited artifacts, the legacy of the king, were either destroyed od taken away.

Modernist, one-floor new building which would connect the existing, separate structures, which, in turn, will be expanded, was announced in September 2022.

The neighborhood developed in the first decade after World War I, after 1919, in the area outside of the jurisdiction of the city construction rules.

By the 1921 general urban city plan, it was labeled as one of the "scarce settlements", which formed a suburban ring around Belgrade.

The name disappeared from the city maps after World War II, when all separately developed neighborhoods grew urbanely into one called Senjak.

[26] Due to the construction of the Ada Bridge, access roads to it and a loop interchange, the kafana was cut off and had to be closed in September 2013, after 193 years.

[27] In 1821, the state government decided to put the food trade in order and to establish the quantity and quality of the goods imported to the city.

Czech émigré Heinrich Smutek, who owned a kafana, arranged a large estate (with a bricklayer), and a garden in the area.

It became an excursion site for the Belgraders, which originally came by fiacres and later by the tram "Topčiderac", which connected the downtown with Topčider.

[31][32][33] The neighborhood developed in the first decade after World War I, in the area outside of the jurisdiction of the city construction rules.