 Construction of Englezovac started in 1880 after a Scottish businessman and Nazarene Francis Mackenzie bought a large piece of land in 1879 from Đorđe Simić, Serbian politician and prime minister, for 7,500 ducats.Land was bounded by the modern streets of "Beogradska", "Njegoševa", "Molerova", "Makenzijeva" (named after Mackenzie), "Katanićeva", "Bore Stankovića", "Skerlićeva" and "Bulevar oslobođenja".Previously known as the "Simićev Majur" (”Simić's farm”), the area eventually became known as Englezovac, Serbian for "Englishman's place"), as the term Englishman is, even today, universally used in colloquial speech for any inhabitant of the Great Britain.