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Rakovica (Раковица) is one of Belgrade 's 17 municipalities. The Municipality of Rakovica covers an area of 30.36 square kilometres and has a population of 97,752. Rakovica was mentioned for the first time in the Ottoman 1560 population census as a village called Vlaha. Tradition has it that the place got its name after - crayfish, the inhabitants of the brook that streamed through the settlement. Up to 1952 , Rakovica had been a part of various urban regions and, and from 1952 to 1960 , it was a separate municipality. Since 1960 , it had been within the Municipality of Čukarica, and became an autonomous municipality again in 1974 . The Day of the Municipality is October 14 , the patron day of the Shroud of the Most Holy Virgin. SUBURBS
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