Mojkovac

Mojkovac Мојковац
Basic data
State :	Montenegro
Coordinates :	42 ° 58 ′  N , 19 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 57 ′ 31 ″  N , 19 ° 34 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	820  m. i. J.
Residents :	3,590 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+382) 084
Postal code :	84000
License plate :	MK
Structure and administration
Structure :	15 parts of the community
Mayor :	Miladin Brko Mitrović ( DPS )
Website :	www.mojkovac.me
Others
Patron saint :	Holy Great Martyr Prokopios of Scythopolis

Mojkovac ( Cyrillic  Мојковац ) is a small town in northern Montenegro . It has almost 3600 inhabitants and is located on the middle course of the Tara , about 65 km north of Podgorica . Mojkovac is the capital of the municipality of the same name with over 8,600 inhabitants and an area of ​​367 km². The city is also the tourist center of the Biogradska Gora National Park and a station on the Belgrade – Bar railway line .

The river Tara flows through Mojkovac, the gorge of which is the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world after the gorge of the Colorado River in the USA .

In 1916 Mojkovac was the scene of the Battle of Mojkovac between the troops of Austria-Hungary and Montenegro under the leadership of Serdar Janko Vukotić , who is therefore honored with a large statue on the town's market square.

Apart from the main town, the municipality Mojkovac also includes the following 14 villages: Lepenac, Žari, Podbišće, Polja, Bistrica, Bjelojevići, Bojna Njiva, Brskovo, Gojakovići, Dobrilovina, Prošćenje, Stevanovac, Uroševina and Štitarica.

history

Serbian Orthodox Nativity Church in the city center

City center of Mojkovac with a monument to Janko Vukotić

Today's Mojkovac municipality is made up of the former Polja and Mojkovac municipalities, which were merged in 1955 when the municipalities were restructured.

Naming

The name Mojkovac is composed of the Serbian words moj , kovani and novac . Translated into German, this means my forged taler , based on the 12th century, when silver coins were forged in what is now Brskovo.

population

At the 2011 census, the city of Mojkovac had 3590 inhabitants. 2094 (58.33%) declared themselves as Montenegrins and 1246 (34.71%) as Serbs .

The municipality of Mojkovac had 8,622 inhabitants, of whom 5097 (59.12%) described themselves as Montenegrins and 3058 (35.47%) as Serbs . Other smaller population groups also live in the community.

Population development of the city

census	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2003	2011
Residents	452	1110	1920	2670	3899	4429	4120	3590

traffic

Mojkovac is a junction in the road network of northern Montenegro. It is connected to the capital Podgorica by the E 65 / E 80 , which runs through Kolašin and through the Morača Valley (84 km). In addition, an important regional road leads through the Tara Gorge to Žabljak (73 km) and Pljevlja (81 km). Mojkovac also has a train station on the Belgrade – Bar line .

Sports

Mojkovac has a local handball club, RK Brskovo Mojkovac , which plays in the first Montenegrin league.

FK Brskovo Mojkovac plays in the third Montenegrin Northern League.

Personalities

• Duško Marković (* 1958), Prime Minister of the Republic of Montenegro since 2016
• Nebojša Bogavac (* 1973), basketball player
• Dragan Bogavac (* 1980), football player, grew up in Mojkovac
• Stefan Savić (* 1991), football player

Web links

Commons : Mojkovac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official community website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ethnic composition of Montenegro 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved July 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Montenegro censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .