Požarevac (Пожаревац, German Passarowitz) is a city located in Serbia and Montenegro at 44°37'12" North, 21°11'23" East.
It is the administrative center of the Branicevo District of Serbia. Branicevo District (Braničevski okrug) The Branicevo District expands in the north-east of Serbia. ...
Its name means "fire-town" in Serbian. In 2003 the city has total population of ca. 60,000. The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It is historically known as the site of the signing the Treaty of Passarowitz. The Treaty of Passarowitz is the peace treaty signed in Požarevac (German Passarowitz,Turkish Pasarofça,Hungarian Pozsarevác), Serbia on July 21, 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Austria and Venice on the other. ...
It is also where former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic was born on 29 August 1941.
The reactions to the death were mixed: officials and sympathisers of the ICTY Prosecution lamented what they saw as Milošević's having remained unpunished, while opponents, mostly Serbian and Russian figures, stressed what they viewed as the responsibility of the Tribunal for what had happened.
A funeral was held in Milošević's home town Pozarevac, after tens of thousands of supporters attended a farewell ceremony in Belgrade.
The return of the body of this former president but alleged war criminal to Serbia and of his widow (who had been forbidden to travel there by prior legal proceedings but petitioned to attend his funeral) was very controversial, leading to great difficulties before their resolution.
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