 In the south it extended into the former informal settlement Cardboard city, and further into industrialized neighborhood of Savski Nasip.Although this is what is usually considered as the Staro Sajmište, local community (sub-municipal administrative unit) of the same name also includes the entire Block 18 to the south, which is located between the streets of "Vladimira Popovića" and "Zemunski put", Gazela Bridge and the left bank of the Sava.In the period between the World Wars, settlements began to form on the left bank of the Sava river, closer to Belgrade, as the only existing settlement on the marshy territory of today's Novi Beograd at that time was the village of Bežanija, quite far away from Belgrade.