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Bajina Bašta
Bajina Bašta ( sr-Cyrl, Бајина Башта, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. The town lies in the valley of the Drina river at the eastern edge of Tara National Park. According to the 2022 census, the town's population is 8,971 inhabitants, while the municipality has 23,533 inhabitants. Etymology The name comes from the vast orchards and vegetable gardens, that used to be located on the left bank of the Pilica River, which belonged to a Turkish feudal owner, Baja Osman, who established the town's modern image in the mid-19th century. In English, the name ' literally means "Baja’s Garden". History In 1834 was established on the remains of the old Turkish community of Pljeskovo which was situated on the right bank of the Drina, Drina River between the Rača River, Rača and Pilica River, Pilica Rivers, under the eastern foothills of Tara Mountain. By the end of the 19th century, in accordance with the Serbian-Turkish agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Serbia
This is the list of cities and towns in Serbia, according to the criteria used by Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, which classifies the settlements into ''urban'' and ''other'', depending not only on size, but also on other administrative and legal criteria. Also villages with the municipal rights have been added to the list. Organization ;Cities ''City, Cities'' in administrative sense are defined by the Law on Territorial Organization. The territory with the ''city'' status usually has more than 100,000 inhabitants, but is otherwise very similar to a municipality. They enjoy a special status of autonomy and self-government, as they have their own civic parliaments and executive branches, as well as mayor (, plural: ) is elected through popular vote, elected by their citizens in local elections. Also, the presidents of the municipalities are often referred to as "mayors" in everyday usage. There are 28 cities (, singular: ), each having an assembly and budget of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feudal
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. The classic definition, by François Louis Ganshof (1944),François Louis Ganshof (1944). ''Qu'est-ce que la féodalité''. Translated into English by Philip Grierson as ''Feudalism'', with a foreword by F. M. Stenton, 1st ed.: New York and London, 1952; 2nd ed: 1961; 3rd ed.: 1976. describes a set of reciprocal legal and Medieval warfare, military obligations of the warrior nobility and revolved around the key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. A broader definition, as described by Marc Bloch (1939), includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but the obligations of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Planning
Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility. Traditionally, urban planning followed a top-down approach in master planning the physical layout of human settlements. The primary concern was the public welfare, which included considerations of efficiency, sanitation, protection and use of the environment, as well as taking account of effects of the master plans on the social and economic activities. Over time, urban planning has adopted a focus on the social and environmental "bottom lines" that focuses on using planning as a tool to improve the health and well-being of people and maintain sustainability standards. In the early 21st century, urban planning experts such as Jane Jacobs called on urban planners to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Obrenović IV
Milan Obrenović IV ( sr-cyr, Милан Обреновић, Milan Obrenović; 22 August 1854 – 11 February 1901) reigned as the Prince of Serbia from 10 June 1868 until 1882, when he became King of Serbia, a title he held until his abdication on 6 March 1889. His son, Alexander I of Serbia, became the second King of Serbia. Early years Birth and infancy in exile Milan Obrenović was born in 1854 in Mărășești in Moldavia, where his family had lived in exile ever since the return of the rival House of Karađorđević to the Serbian throne in 1842 when they managed to depose Milan's cousin Prince Mihailo Obrenović III. Milan was the son of and of his Moldavian wife Marija Obrenović, née Elena Maria Catargiu (1831–1879). Milan's paternal grandfather (Miloš's father) was Jevrem Obrenović (1790–1856), brother of Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia from 1815 to 1839 and from 1858 to 1860. Milan was therefore Prince Miloš's grandnephew. He had only one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rača District
Rača may refer to: Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača, Vlasenica, a village near Vlasenica Croatia * Nova Rača, a village and municipality near Bjelovar North Macedonia * Rača, Ohrid Serbia * Rača, Serbia, a town and municipality in Šumadija District * Rača (Bajina Bašta), a village in Zlatibor District * Rača (Kuršumlija), a village in Toplica District * Rača (Priboj), a village in Zlatibor District * Rača monastery, near Bajina Bašta * Sremska Rača, in Sremska Mitrovica ** Rača Bridge, on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača (Velika Morava), a river in Serbia Slovakia * Rača, Bratislava ** FK Rača, a football club Slovenia * Rača, Domžale * Rača (Kamnik Bistrica) Rača may refer to: Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača, Vlasenica, a village near Vlasenica Croatia * Nova Rača, a village and municipality near Bjelovar North Macedonia * Rača, Ohrid Serbia * Rača, Serbia, a town and municipality i ..., a river in Slovenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobrak
Dobrak ( sr-cyrl, Добрак) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ....Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991. References Populated places in Srebrenica {{Srebrenica-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skelani
Skelani (Serbian Cyrillic: Скелани) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Location Altitude: 242 m According to the 1991 census the population of the town was 1123 - 950 Muslims (84.59%), 160 Serbs (14.25%), 7 Yugoslavs (0.62%) and 6 Unknown/Others (0.53%) The population of the commune was 4283 - 2847 Muslims (66.47%), 1311 Serbs (30.61%), 16 Yugoslavs (0.37%) and 109 Unknown/Others (2.54%) Skelani is 50 km from the town of Srebrenica, via difficult roads through the Zeleni Jadar Mountains. The village is much closer to the town of Bajina Basta in Serbia, only 3 km away by bridge across the Drina River. Traditional lines of communication were disrupted by the Bosnian war, significantly affecting life in Skelani, which has been described by the Bosnian saying that when you live in isolation you end up “ni na nebu ni na zemlji” -‘neither in the sky nor on earth’. Before the Yugoslav wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest, with a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the south. Bosnia (region), Bosnia has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. Its geography is largely mountainous, particularly in the central and eastern regions, which are dominated by the Dinaric Alps. Herzegovina, the smaller, southern region, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city. The area has been inhabited since at least the Upper Paleolithic, with permanent human settlement traced to the Neolithic cultures of Butmir culture, Butmir, Kakanj culture, Kakanj, and Vučedol culture, Vučedol. After the arrival of the first Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-Europeans, the area was populated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Mountain
Tara ( sr-Cyrl, Тара, ) is a mountain in western Serbia. It is part of the Dinaric Alps and stands at above sea level. The mountain's slopes are clad in dense forests with numerous high-elevation clearings and meadows, steep cliffs, deep ravines carved by the nearby Drina River, and many karst caves. The mountain is a popular tourist centre. Tara National Park encompasses a large part of the mountain. The highest peak is Zborište, at . National park Initial attempts at protecting parts of the mountain occurred in the 19th century. Soon after Serbia's Institute for the Nature Protection was founded in 1948, six reserves were declared on the mountain in 1950. They were followed by an additional three in the 1960s and the 1970s. Tara National Park was established in July 1981. It encompasses Tara and part of the Zvijezda mountain, in a large bend of the Drina River. The area of the park originally was with altitudes varying from above sea level. On 5 October 2015, the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilica River
The Pilica is a river in central Poland, and the longest left tributary of the Vistula river, with a length of 333 kilometres (8th longest). All 9,258 km2 of its basin area is in Poland. , p. 85-86 It flows through the , after which it enters Central Polish Plains. Pilica flows into the Vistula near the village of Ostrowek, in a geographical region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rača River
Rača may refer to: Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača, Vlasenica, a village near Vlasenica Croatia * Nova Rača, a village and municipality near Bjelovar North Macedonia * Rača, Ohrid Serbia * Rača, Serbia, a town and municipality in Šumadija District * Rača (Bajina Bašta), a village in Zlatibor District * Rača (Kuršumlija), a village in Toplica District * Rača (Priboj), a village in Zlatibor District * Rača monastery, near Bajina Bašta * Sremska Rača, in Sremska Mitrovica ** Rača Bridge, on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača (Velika Morava), a river in Serbia Slovakia * Rača, Bratislava ** FK Rača, a football club Slovenia * Rača, Domžale * Rača (Kamnik Bistrica) Rača may refer to: Bosnia and Herzegovina * Rača, Vlasenica, a village near Vlasenica Croatia * Nova Rača, a village and municipality near Bjelovar North Macedonia * Rača, Ohrid Serbia * Rača, Serbia, a town and municipality i ..., a river in Slovenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
