BELGRADE

BELGRADE. In Serbian “Beograd” means “white city.” At the confluence of the Danube and Sava, this city is built on the site of the ancient city of Singudunum in the onetime Roman province of Illyria (q.v.). Today it is the capital of Serbia and the primatial see of the Serbian Orthodox Church (qq.v.). Its Archbishop, Pavle, bears the title patriarch. He presides over a local church of some eight million living throughout the territories of the former Yugoslavia (q.v.).