Kolarine, Gâzi Bali Bey Câmii

Kolarine Palanka (Kolari) is located 12 km south of Semendire (Smederovo). Evliyâ Çelebi stopped by the Kolarine Palanka on his way to Belgrade and described it as a quadrangular, singledoored palanka guarded by 40 soldiers on a flat plain. Noting that its founder was Ghazi Bali Bey from Smederovo, the traveller also states that there was a small mosque and an inn in the palanka. During the early days of the Austrian domination in Belgrade, Smederevo and its environs, mosques were allowed to be converted into Orthodox churches in places where there were no Catholic people. The mosque in Kolari Palanka was also converted into an Orthodox church by the Serbs with the permission of the Austrians during this period. The mosque and inn reported by Evliyâ Çelebi in Kolari, a village with a population of 1,200 today, must have been destroyed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like other Turkish works in Serbia.