Ćuprija , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Ћуприја, is a city and a municipality of Serbia located at 150 km in the south of Belgrade and at 90 km in the north of Niš, in the district of Pomoravlje. In 2002, the city counted: 20595 inhabitants and the municipality of which it is the center: 33567.
When Serb installed in area, city took name of Ravno (Serb word which means “flat”), because of the moderate relief of the valley in which it was located. Some local names, like those of the villages of Paljane and Isakovo or like that of the river Mirosava, recall the great confrontation which took place with the autumn 1191 between the Serbes of Stefan Nemanja and the army of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angel.
At the 15th century, the city was called Ćuprija (Turkish word to indicate the “bridge”) when it passed under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
The center town was damaged at the time of bombardment the campaign of NATO in 1999.
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