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Belgrade is an incorporated city in Gallatin County and the most populous city in Montana that is not a county seat.

The original townsite of Belgrade was established in 1883 when the Northern Pacific Railroad was built through the Gallatin Valley.

Belgrade was named after the capital of Serbia, in appreciation to the Serbian investors who helped finance a portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Businessman Thomas B. Quaw filed the original town plat in July 1891, having earlier run Belgrade as an unmanned railroad siding 9.7 miles west of Bozeman, and he marketed the town as the "Princess of the Prairies."

A post office was established in Belgrade in 1887 with Quaw as postmaster, and the town was incorporated in 1906.

Belgrade's population reached 10,460 at the 2020 census, a jump of 41.6 percent from 7,389 in 2010 as the Gallatin Valley boomed.

The 2020 census counted 4,102 households and 4,339 housing units in the city.

Belgrade covers 4.865 square miles at an elevation of 4,449 feet, and is part of the Bozeman metropolitan statistical area; many residents commute to nearby Bozeman.

Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport sits adjacent to the city's boundaries, and Interstate 90 passes through Belgrade, with Montana Highway 85 entering from the south.

Belgrade High School's teams are the Panthers, and the school district's 4,800-seat Special Events Center, built in 1996, hosts district, divisional and state athletic tournaments.