Berane

Berane
Беране

Basic data

State :

Montenegro

Municipality :

Berane municipality

Coordinates :

42 ° 51 ' N , 19 ° 52' E Coordinates: 42 ° 50 '37 " N , 19 ° 52' 22" E

Height :

675 m. i. J.

Area :

717 km²

Residents :

11,776 (2003)

Population density :

16 inhabitants per km²

Telephone code :

(+382) 051

Postal code :

84300

License plate :

BA

Structure and administration

Mayor :

Vuka Golubović ( DPS )

Website :

www.berane.me

Others

City Festival :

21 July

Bird's eye view of Berane

Berane ( Cyrillic Беране ) is a town with about 11,800 inhabitants in Montenegro .

geography

Berane is located in a basin on the river Lim , which is rich in fish , at the junction of the road to Andrijevica from the main road Bijelo Polje - Rožaje and has a small regional airport. The town is an important starting point for excursions to the Bjelasica Mountains with the mountain lakes Pešića Jezero, Ursulovačko Jezero and Šiško Jezero.

history

The settlement was founded in 1862 as an Ottoman military camp by order of the Turkish general Hüseyin Avni Pasha . The place was long on the border between Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire and was therefore often the scene of violent and bloody battles. From 1946 to 1992 the city was called Ivangrad , named after Ivan Milutinović (1901-1944), a Montenegrin member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and a military leader in the fight of the partisans during the Second World War.

In the area, researchers discovered objects and skeletons that date from the Stone Age in the 1950s .

population

The actual city of Berane has about 12,000 inhabitants.

At the 2011 census, the municipality of Berane had 33,970 inhabitants, of whom 14,592 (42.96%) were Serbs , 8,838 (26.02%) were Montenegrins , 6,021 (17.72%) were Bosniaks , 1,957 (5.76%) ) described them as Muslims and 531 (1.56%) as Roma . There are also other smaller population groups living in the city.

Population development
year	1872	1962	1965	1972	1981	1991	2003	2011
Residents	860	10,600	12,000	19,000	12,720	12,267	11,776	11,073

Attractions

Just outside the city, near the cemetery, is the dasurđevi Stupovi Orthodox monastery , which was founded in 1213. Near the town, on the Jasikovac mountain, there is a memorial that commemorates 30 fallen partisans who were shot in the fighting in 1941.

Town twinning

Berane lists the following twelve twin cities :

city	region	country
Adana	Turkey Çukurova, Turkey
Çiğli	Turkey Izmir, Turkey
Čukarica (Belgrade)	Serbia Serbia	1985
Dudelange	Luxembourg Esch, Luxembourg
Esch on the Alzette	Luxembourg Luxembourg
Kostroma	Russia Central Russia, Russia	2005
Pejë	Kosovo Rajoni i Pejës, Kosovo	1998
Staro Nagoričane	North Macedonia Northeast, North Macedonia	2015
Subotica	Serbia Vojvodina, Serbia
Teramo	Italy Abruzzo, Italy	1985
Vrnjačka Banja	Serbia Raška, Serbia	2015
Zavidovići	Bosnia and Herzegovina Zenica-Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina