Stalać (Serbian Cyrillic: Сталаћ; pronounced [stǎlaːtɕ]) is a village located in the municipality of Ćićevac, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,521 inhabitants.
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On 13 September 1979, a crash occurred between two trains near the village of Stalać in SR Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. The crash involved a head-on collision between a packed express passenger train bound for Skopje and an intermodal freight train on a single-track section of the railway. Due to communication errors and possible driver fatigue, the two trains collided, resulting in 62 fatalities and 106 injuries. The crash remains one of the more significant rail accidents in former Yugoslavia, though not widely documented. The driver of the freight train and his assistant were blamed for the accident and sentenced to 20 and 15 years, respectively.
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Grad Stalać is a village in the municipality of Ćićevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 800 people.
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Stalać Fortress is a historic fortress in the town of Stalać. It is located 10 kilometres north of present-day Kruševac, on a hill overlooking the confluence of West and South Morava.
Stalać Fortress has a status of a Cultural Monument of Great Importance in the Republic of Serbia.
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Lučina is a village in the municipality of Ćićevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 927 people.
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The West Morava is a river in Central Serbia, a 184-km long headstream of the Great Morava, which it forms with the South Morava. It was known as Brongus in antiquity.
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