Banja, Aranđelovac

Banja is a village in the municipality of Aranđelovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 2246 people.

History

In the late Ottoman period, Banja was part of the Jasenica knežina of the Kragujevac nahiya.
Banja was involved in the First Serbian Uprising since the beginning. Several locals participated at the Orašac Assembly, where notables of mostly the Kragujevac and Belgrade nahiyas decided for rebellion against the tyrannical Dahije. Among these were Aleksa Dukić, a hajduk and Free Corps veteran, and his brothers Đorđe and Tanasije, Jovan Riznić, the Tomković brothers.