Kosmaj
Serbia and Montenegro /
Central Serbia /
Sopot /
World
/ Serbia and Montenegro
/ Central Serbia
/ Sopot
, 6 km from center (Сопот)
World / Serbia / Grad Beograd
mountain, park, invisible
Kosmaj (626 m) is a mountain in Serbia, around Sopot. The Avala (506 m) is the lowest mountain in Šumadija. It can highlight the top three: small, naked, and shaggy. The main ridge Kosmaj polumesečastog shape and with the southwest-northeast direction. Although Kosmaj low mountains, but their uzgledom in mind the island is dominated in this part of the low Šumadija above the corrugated neogenog hillside, parsed gentle river valleys.
Name Kosmaj originated from the Celtic word cos (noise) and the word predindoevropske May (mountain). However, the Romans adapted Kosmaj mythology because he meaning Maiac hours - the habitat of the goddess Maya. In the Roman era, Kosmaj was important mining center. Probably the iron ore excavating the Kosmaj before the arrival of the Romans.
The whole landscape is under vegetation. Namely, the steeper sides are covered with forest (mainly beech and oak, and larch and places). Gentle slopes under grassy vegetation and the foot of orchards and fields, while mostly plateau with pastures.
The Kosmaj has a different game of importance for tourism, hunting (rabbits, deer, pheasants, partridges, quail and foxes, and once the wolves).
Name Kosmaj originated from the Celtic word cos (noise) and the word predindoevropske May (mountain). However, the Romans adapted Kosmaj mythology because he meaning Maiac hours - the habitat of the goddess Maya. In the Roman era, Kosmaj was important mining center. Probably the iron ore excavating the Kosmaj before the arrival of the Romans.
The whole landscape is under vegetation. Namely, the steeper sides are covered with forest (mainly beech and oak, and larch and places). Gentle slopes under grassy vegetation and the foot of orchards and fields, while mostly plateau with pastures.
The Kosmaj has a different game of importance for tourism, hunting (rabbits, deer, pheasants, partridges, quail and foxes, and once the wolves).
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Coordinates: 44°27'38"N 20°34'24"E
- Gledić mountains 65 km
- Homolje mountains 75 km
- Juhor mountain 76 km
- Locvei Mountains 82 km
- Golija 109 km
- Zlatibor 110 km
- Jastrebac Mountain 120 km
- Rtanj Mountain 121 km
- Svrljig Mountains 165 km
- Suva Planina 169 km
- Municipality of Sopot 6.9 km
- Stojnik 10 km
- Municipality of Mladenovac 10 km
- Field B 16 km
- Municipality of Arandjelovac 16 km
- Maskar 19 km
- Municipality of Barajevo 19 km
- Municipality of Grocka 25 km
- Voždovac 26 km
- City of Smederevo 33 km