Priboj

This article is about the municipality and town in Serbia. For other uses, see Priboj (disambiguation).
Priboj
Прибој
Municipality and Town

Coat of arms

Location of the municipality of Priboj within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°36′N 19°32′E / 43.600°N 19.533°E / 43.600; 19.533Coordinates: 43°36′N 19°32′E / 43.600°N 19.533°E / 43.600; 19.533
Country  Serbia
District Zlatibor
Settlements 33
Government
 • Mayor Lazar Rvović
Area[1]
 • Municipality 553 km2 (214 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)[2]
 • Town 14,920
 • Municipality 27,133
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 31330
Area code +381 33
Car plates PB
Website www.priboj.rs

Priboj (Serbian Cyrillic: Прибој, pronounced [prǐːbɔj]) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of Serbia. The population of the town is 14,920, while the population of the municipality is 27,133.

History

During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valey of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Turkish invasion in the middle of 15th century. Between 1459 and 1463, the town of Priboj was first mentioned in written documents of the Ottoman Empire.[3]

Geography

The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave (Sastavci village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality.

The town of Priboj lies on the river Lim. It is 5 km away from Uvac, a smaller river that is the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

Settlements

Aside from the town of Priboj, the municipality includes the following settlements:

Demographics

In 1991, the population of the Priboj municipality numbered 35,951 people, and was composed of Serbs (67.26%), Muslims (30.39%) and others. Most of those who in 1991 census declared themselves as Muslims by nationality, in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks, while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by nationality.

In 2002, the population of the Priboj town numbered 19,564 people, and was composed of Serbs (13,386), Bosniaks (4,396), Muslims by nationality (1,042) and others.

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Municipality of Priboj has 27,133 inhabitants. Most of Priboj’s population is of Serbian ethnicity (75.9%), with nearly 25% being Bosniaks or "Muslims by nationality", while 49.4% of the municipality’s population lives in urban areas. Ethnic composition of the municipality:

Ethnic group Population
Serbs20,582
Bosniaks3,811
Muslims1,944
Yugoslavs36
Hungarians11
Macedonians9
Others740
Total27,133

Economy

Belgrade–Bar railway passing through Priboj.

Priboj is the home of FAP Corporation, which in 1953 introduced its first heavy duty vehicles. FAP is one of the biggest producer of trucks and buses in Serbia.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
  2. ↑ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  3. ↑ Историја Прибоја [History of Priboj] (in Serbian). Priboj: Municipality of Priboj. Retrieved 2013-01-22. Pod Tursku upravu Priboj dolazi između 1459. i 1463. godine, kada se prvi put u turskim izvorima i pominje.
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