Bogosavac
Strawberry city satellite—Bogosavac serves Jagodina, whose 8,000-year-old Neolithic figurines and eccentric museums define the region.
Bogosavac exists because the Pomoravlje District needed villages to work the fertile land between the Morava and Jagodina—and because 'strawberry city' requires an agricultural hinterland. This village sits in the region surrounding Jagodina, whose very name derives from 'jagoda' (strawberry), a city that renamed itself Svetozarevo during the socialist period (1946–1992) but reverted to its berry-derived original.
The area's Neolithic heritage runs deep. Geophysical research in 2012 uncovered a prehistoric settlement near Belica with a 75-meter circular trench surrounding triangular and trapezoid structures—unique among early Neolithic sites. Nearby excavations have produced the world's largest collection of prehistoric figurines: nearly 100 human-like figures made of stone, bone, and clay, approximately 8,000 years old. Bogosavac exists in a landscape where human settlement predates any recorded history.
Jagodina municipality includes 54 villages spread across 470 square kilometers, climbing from the Morava plain into surrounding hills. Bogosavac is one of these—a settlement defined by proximity to a city whose identity (strawberries, Neolithic archaeology, the eccentric Wax Museum and Zoo built by a former mayor) overshadows the villages that surround it. By 2026, such villages persist or decline based on Jagodina's economic health, their fates tied to a city whose leaders have proven unusually creative at generating reasons to visit.