mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
in central
Serbia
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, between the towns of
Ražanj
Ražanj () is a village and municipality located in the Nišava District of southern Serbia. The municipality consists of 23 settlements having a total population of 7,010 inhabitants, with 1,138 inhabitants living in Ražanj itself (2022 census ...
and
Aleksinac
Aleksinac ( sr-Cyrl, Алексинац) is a town and municipality located in the Nišava District of Southern and Eastern Serbia, southern Serbia. According to 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 43,258 inhabitants.
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. Its highest peak ''Bukova glava'' has an elevation of above sea level.
Bukovik is located between the left, eastern bank of the
South Morava
The South Morava (; Macedonian and Serbian: Јужна Морава, ''Južna Morava'', ) is a river in eastern Kosovo and in southern Serbia, which represents the shorter headwater of Great Morava. Today, it is long, including its source ri ...
river and the right, northern bank of its tributary the Moravica, above the
Bovan Lake
Bovan may refer to:
*Bovan (Aleksinac), Serbia
*Bovan (Kruševac), Serbia
*Bolvan Fortress
Bolvan Fortress (), also known as Bovan Fortress () or Jerina's City () is a fortress located 9 km from Aleksinac, near Bovan (Aleksinac), the villag ...
reservoir. The municipal border between Aleksinac and Ražanj runs across the mountain. The easiest access is from the villages of Mozgovo to the south and Crni Kao to the west. The mountain is well-forested, originally with
beech
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trees to which it owns its name (''bukva'' meaning 'beech' in
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...
), but after the World War II significant amounts of
spruce
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have been planted. To the northeast lies the Rožanj mountain, separated by the valley of the Brška Reka, a tributary of the Bovan Lake.
Near the mountain top there are two separate World War II memorials, one to the
Yugoslav Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...
and the other to the
Chetniks
The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...