Prijepolje
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Пријеполје Prijepolje |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Tighter Serbia | ||||
| Okrug : | Zlatibor | ||||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 23 ' N , 19 ° 39' E | ||||
| Height : | 450 m. i. J. | ||||
| Area : | 824 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 37,059 (2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 45 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 033 | ||||
| Postal code : | 31300 | ||||
| License plate : | PP | ||||
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Prijepolje ( Serbian - Cyrillic Пријепоље ) is a municipality and city in the Okrug Zlatibor in the south-western mountainous region of Serbia , which is also called Sandžak . The city of Prijepolje is located in the valley of the Lim River at an altitude of about 450 m, surrounded by the Zlatar and Jadovnik Mountains. Not far from the city center, in the gorge of the Mileševa river , there is the Mileševa monastery of the same name and the ruins of Hisardžik castle from the Middle Ages.
population
At the 2011 census, the community had 37,059 inhabitants and the city itself had 13,068 inhabitants. Compared to the previous census in 2002, the municipality has lost over 4,000 inhabitants.
At around 52.6%, the Serbs made up the majority of the population in the community in the 2011 census , followed by the Bosniaks and ethnic Muslims with around 44%.
sons and daughters of the town
- Sarı Süleyman Pasha (d. 1687), Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Zvonimir Červenko (1926-2001), Croatian general
- Vlade Divac (* 1968), basketball player
- Ermin Melunović (* 1973), football player
- Ivica Dragutinović (* 1975), football player
- Aleksandar Svitlica (* 1982), handball player
- Sead Zilić (* 1982), Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- Fahrudin Melić (* 1984), Montenegrin handball player
- Zlatan Alomerović (* 1991), German-Serbian football player
- Miljan Pušica (* 1991), handball player
