FK Bežanija was founded in 1921. Stara Bežanija (Cyrillic: Стара Бежанија; "Old Bežanija"), as the name says, is the oldest section of Bežanija, location of the original village. It had a population of 13,378 in 2002 and 8,412 in 2011. At the roundabout on the corner of "Surčinska" and "Vojvođanska" streets, an obelisk was erected in 2012 to celebrate the 500 years of the first mention of Bežanija. It is 5 meters, or 500 centimeters tall, one centimeter for each year. Northeastern extension of the Bežanija, along the loess ridge, is called Bežanijska Kosa (Cyrillic: Бежанијска Коса; "slope of Bežanija"). It is crescent shaped, leaning on the western border of the urban area of Novi Beograd, stretching along the "Tošin bunar" street to Zemun. Northern section of the neighborhood is crossed by the Belgrade-Zagreb highway. In 1883 Austrian general Laudon built a trench through the loess to make way for the railway, thus creating an artificial hill, known today as Bežanijska Kosa. Laudon's trench, whose remnants still can be seen but are turned into an informal settlement, marked to border between the south Kalvarija and north Bežanijska Kosa. Modern neighborhood was built in 1987. It roughly comprises Blocks 6, 35, 49, 50 and 60. Southern section is industrialized (IMT and Minel factories) and the location of the old airport (now a new neighborhood in the process of construction, Airport City Belgrade), while the central parts are mostly residential. Northern section, along the highway, comprises stadiums of the "Bežanija" and "Radnički" soccer clubs, auto-camp, hotel "Nacional", sports center of "11 April", "Bežanija" retirement home and one of the major Belgrade hospitals, "KBC Bežanijska Kosa". In the northeast it borders the Studentski Grad while northwestern section belongs to the municipality of Zemun.