# Slanci
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| native_name = Сланци
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'''Slanci''' ({{lang-sr-cyrl|Сланци}}) is a [suburban settlement](/source/List_of_Belgrade_neighbourhoods) of [Belgrade](/source/Belgrade), [Serbia](/source/Serbia). It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of [Palilula](/source/Palilula%2C_Belgrade).
== Location ==
Slanci is located in the eastern section of the Palilula municipality, {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} from downtown Belgrade[{{Citation | author = Milan Četnik| title = Baštovandžije bez snaša i kafana | newspaper = [Politika](/source/Politika) | language = sr }}] and few kilometers east of the neighborhood of [Višnjica](/source/Vi%C5%A1njica%2C_Serbia) on the road of ''Slanački put'' (Slanci road) which connects Belgrade with [Veliko Selo](/source/Veliko_Selo_(Palilula)), the easternmost settlement in the municipality of Palilula.
The settlement is built on the southern slopes of the hill of ''Milićevo brdo'' (279 m), in the micro-valley of the short creek of ''Vrelski potok''. It is surrounded by the Pajstovica, Osovlje and Tapino hills, being tucked in on the southern side of [the Danube](/source/the_Danube) ridge.[{{cite book|title= Comparative overview of the number of population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011 – Data by settlements, page 29|date=2014|publisher= Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade|isbn=978-86-6161-109-4}}]
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Population of Slanci is stagnating for decades: it had a population of 1,736 in 1991, 1,770 in 2002 and 1,783 in 1991. Serbs made 98% of the population according to the 2002 census.
== Characteristics ==
The name of the settlement, which means "salty" in Serbian, comes from the many springs in the hills above, many of which have mildly salty water. Using the natural inclination, villagers built a water supply system in the 19th century, when many towns in Serbia had no waterworks. Due to the lack of maintenance, the old aqueduct collapsed in the late 1990s.[{{cite news | author = Ana Vuković | title = Šakali stigli i do grada | trans-title = Jackals reached the city | newspaper = Politika | page = 16 | language = sr | date = 7 April 2022 | url = https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/504262/Sakali-stigli-i-do-grada}}]
== Monastery ==
A monastery of Slanci, dedicated to the Saint [archdeacon](/source/archdeacon) [Stefan](/source/Saint_Stephen), is located nearby. Original building was built in the late 13th century by King [Dragutin](/source/Dragutin) after he received Belgrade and the northern Serbia from the Hungarian king. The monastery was originally dedicated to [Mother of God](/source/Mother_of_God). The area became part of the Serbian state again in 1403, during the rule of [Stefan Lazarević](/source/Stefan_Lazarevi%C4%87) who supported the monastery financially. During the reign of his successor, [Đurađ Branković](/source/%C4%90ura%C4%91_Brankovi%C4%87), the monastery was dedicated to the Saint Stephen, the saint protector of the [Branković dynasty](/source/Brankovi%C4%87_dynasty). The prosperity of the monastery was disrupted after the [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) conquest of Serbia in 1459. Ottomans killed 30 students in the monastery but the relics were partially moved to the [Vojlovica monastery](/source/Vojlovica_monastery) in then [Hungary](/source/Hungary), across the [Danube](/source/Danube). In the next five centuries, the monastery was demolished and rebuilt several times. In 1900 a chapel was built on the location of the former monastery. In 1960 [patriarch](/source/List_of_heads_of_the_Serbian_Orthodox_Church) [German](/source/German%2C_Serbian_Patriarch) set the [foundation stone](/source/foundation_stone) for the new monastery which was consecrated in 1967, together with the adjoining [konak](/source/konak_(residence)).[{{Citation | title = Stefandan u Slancima za hiljadu duša| newspaper = Politika | language = sr | date = 9 January 2013 }}] The monastery church was finished in 1970. In the vicinity of the monastery is the water spring named after [Saint Sava](/source/Saint_Sava).[{{Citation | author =Marija Brakočević | title = Manastir Slanci - sigurno utočište | newspaper = Politika | language = sr }}] Since the mid-1970s, the monastery is a [metochion](/source/metochion) of the [Hilandar](/source/Hilandar) monastery on the [Mount Athos](/source/Mount_Athos). Hilandar bestowed to Slanci a copy of its famed icon of [Bogorodica Trojeručica](/source/Bogorodica_Trojeru%C4%8Dica), made in [Karyes](/source/Karyes%2C_Mount_Athos).