About Arandjelovac

mountains Bukulja and Venčac, at about 255 m above sea level, 75 km away from Belgrade. The municipality encompasses two town and 18 village communities. BukovičkaBanja Spa is located in the town. The town is situated in the Šumadijskiokrug (Šumadija region) with the administrative center in Kragujevac. According to the most recent, 2011 census, there are 24,580 inhabitants in the town itself, while the whole municipality has a total of 46,079 inhabitants.

Most of the today's town territory used to belong to the village of Vrbica, today its suburb. Since duke MilošObrenović often resided in the BukovičkaBanja, he decided to build a church in Vrbica in 1858 (one of his "repentance churches"), and dedicated it to St. Archangel Gabriel. The growing community surrounding the church was then proclaimed the town of Aranđelovac ("The town of Archangel") by the power of duke's decree occupying major parts of territories of villages Vrbica and Bukovik