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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? Then, between 1929 and 1933, 89 kilometres of embankments were built all around it, cutting it off from the rhythms of seasonal flooding and opening it to agriculture and settlement. Yet, the Beljarica remained open to flooding.

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