KRAGUJEVAC

city in Serbia, Yugoslavia, on the Lepenica River, a tributary of the Morava. It is the chief city of the umadija region, in which at the beginning of the 19th century Karadjordje led the first Serb uprising against the Turks. It was the capital of Serbia from 1818 to 1839, during which time a high school, a theatre, a military school, and a printing press were established. The first newspaper in Serbia, Novine Srbske, was published there. In 1941 German military authorities executed 7,000 males between the ages of 14 and 70 from the area of Kragujevac and Kraljevo; a monument recalls the massacre. Kragujevac lies in fertile country, which produces fruit and vegetables for canning. Livestock is fattened for the meat-processing industry. Kragujevac has an important automobile plant, the Zavodi Crvena Zastava. In 1972 the first Yugoslav-designed car went into production. There are also pharmaceutical and chemical plants. Pop. (1981) 87,764; (1994 est.) 147,305.