Before the settlement was founded, it was a wooded area below what is today Central Cemetery. In the early 19th century it was part of the domain of Marinko Marinković, obor-knez of Avala. After him, the wood was called "Marinkova šuma" (Marinko's wood) and later, when the village developed, it was also named after him. Marinkova Bara originates from the 1920s and 1930s when the small village was the eastern suburb of Belgrade. One half of the settlement developed in the valley, at the confluence of the "Duboki potok" and "Kumodraški potok" creeks into the Mokroluški potok. Other half extended into the hills and slopes above, around the modern "Zaplanjska" street.