Grdelica, Serbia

Grdelica Грделица
Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	Jablanica District, Leskovac municipality
Location:	17 km south of Leskovac
Population: 2002	2,383
Area code:	016
Postal code:	16220
License plates:	Le

Grdelica (Serbian Cyrillic: Грделица) is a town in Serbia. It is situated in the Leskovac municipality, in the Jablanica District. The population of the town was 2,383 people as of the 2002 census.

Grdelica lies near the Juzna Morava. It is the largest settlement in the territory from Leskovac to Vranje, and it was a seat of a municipality until absorbed by the Leskovac Municipality in the 1960s.

It has a football stadium (the name of the football team is "FK Jedinstvo"), a basketball court, and a swimming pool. "Desanka Maksimović" is the name of the primary school. Woodworks "Danilo Boskovic" and "Textile Industry Grdelica (TIG)" are two major factories.

History

It was part of an Iron Age culture, with 8th-century-BC pottery found in the downstream river.

References

• Grdelica, Serbia at GEOnet Names Server