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The remains of the large Neolithic settlement from the period of the Vinča culture is found in the area (Cerak Vinogradi). First mention of the settlement under the name of Žarkovo is from the XVII century. At the time, Žarkovo had its own municipality and was more important that the village of Čukarica which split from it as a separate municipality in 1911. Today, Žarkovo itself is part of the municipality of Čukarica. Until 1970's, Žarkovo was a suburb of Belgrade, a separate, extremely fast growing town (population 1961: 8,636; 1971: 28,761), so it was administratively annexed to the Belgrade City proper, becoming local community within the city, and an extensive development of the border neighborhoods in the 1970's and 1980's (Banovo Brdo, Sunčana Padina, Cerak Vinogradi, Skojevsko Naselje), connected Žarkovo and the rest of Belgrade into one continuous built-up area. In 1981 local community of Žarkovo had a population of 43,721, which was already 40% of the population in the urban section of the Čukarica municipality. Later, the local community was divided into several smaller ones, but the population of Žarkovo in widest sense was 58,682 in 2002.