Bioska (
Serbian Cyrillic
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...
: Биоска), is a village located in the
Užice municipality of
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...
on the mountainous banks of
Đetinja river and
Lake Vrutci, between
Zlatibor
Zlatibor ( sr-cyr, Златибoр ) is a mountainous region situated in the western part of Serbia.
Among the most popular places in Serbia for tourism, Zlatibor's main attractions include health tourism, skiing, and hiking and the longest p ...
and
Tara
Tara may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Tara'' (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
* ''Tara'' (2001 film), an American film, also known as ''Hood Rat'', directed by Leslie Small
* ''Tara'' (2010 film), a ...
mountains, and close to
Uzice-Ponikve airport and
Kremna village, as well as
Mokra Gora-Drvengrad, a.k.a. Küstendorf or Mećavnik (Мећавник),.
According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 554. The
Monastery of Rujno was situated nearby.
Notable people
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Lenka Rabasović Lenka Rabasović was a Serbian heroine who fought as an irregular during World War I.
Biography
Lenka Pjević was born in Bioska. She had four brothers. She joined her father's unit of irregulars in 1916. After learning how to use different weap ...
, heroine who fought as an irregular during World War I
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Milivoje Kostic
Milivoje Kostic (also, Milivoje M. Kostic; in Serbian Cyrillic: Миливоје Костић; born 20 March 1952 in Bioska, Užice municipality, Yugoslavia), is a Serbian-American thermodynamicist and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering ...
, is a Serbian-American thermodynamicist and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Northern Illinois University, Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Illinois, and Editor-in-Chief of the Thermodynamics section of the journal Entropy.
References
External links
Užice
Populated places in Zlatibor District
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