Priboj

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, the border with Montenegro in the south-west, and the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave (Međurječje village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality.

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

Climate

Priboj has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb).

History

The hamlet of Jarmovac south of Priboj is the site of a prehistoric copper mine shaft which is one of the first evidences of human metallurgy, first identified in 1937, now dated to the 4th millennium BCE in the late Vinča culture.

During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valley of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Ottoman 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.{{cite web | script-title=sr:Историја Прибоја |trans-title=History of Priboj

Settlements

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

• Banja
• Batkovići
• Brezna
• Bučje
• Dobrilovići
• Živinice
• Zabrđe
• Zabrnjica
• Zagradina
• Zaostro
• Jelača
• Kalafati
• Kaluđerovići
• Kasidoli
• Kratovo
• Krnjača
• Kukurovići
• Mažići
• Miliješ
• Plašće
• Požegrmac
• Pribojska Goleša
• Pribojske Čelice
• Rača
• Ritošići
• Sjeverin
• Sočice
• Strmac
• Hercegovačka Goleša
• Crnugovići
• Crnuzi
• Čitluk
• Akmačići

Demographics

|1948|17989 |1953|20784 |1961|26147 |1971|32548 |1981|35200 |1991|35951 |2002|30377 |2011|27133|2022|23514

According to 2022 census, the municipality of Priboj has 23,514 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

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 ethnic Muslims, in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks, while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by ethnicity.

In 2022, the population of the town was 13,172, and was composed of Serbs (9,155), Bosniaks (2,153), ethnic Muslims (687) and others. As of 2022, most of Priboj's population is of Serbian ethnicity (71.9%), with nearly 21.5% being Bosniaks.

The ethnic composition of the municipality:

Economy

Today, most of Priboj's economy is based on agriculture, services and partly industry. Priboj is home to the FAP Corporation, which pushed Priboj's development during the 1970s and 1980s, when it was one of the biggest producers of trucks and buses in the former Yugoslavia. Since the 1990s, FAP has been working in limited capacity and since the 2010s its only remaining production is military-oriented.

As of September 2017, Priboj has one of 14 free economic zones established in Serbia.

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2022):

Sports

Local football club FK FAP competes in the second tier of Serbian football as of the 2025/26 season. They also had a couple of seasons in the [Yugoslav Second League]] during the 1970s.

Gallery

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Notable people

Main article: People from Priboj

• Mustafa Hasanagić (b. 1941), footballer
• Slavenko Kuzeljević (b. 1958), football manager and former player
• Ana Bekuta (b. 1959), folk singer
• Alem Toskić (b. 1982), handball player
• Mirsad Terzić (b. 1983), handball player
• Ahmet Delić (b. 1986), footballer
• Aleksandar Prijović (b. 1990), footballer
• Željka Nikolić (b. 1991), handball player
• Amela Terzić (b. 1993), middle-distance runner
• Ramiz Delalić, Bosnian organized crime figure
• Marko Gudurić (b. 1995), Professional basketball player, playing for Fenerbahçe S.K. (basketball) in the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi

References

References

1. {{Serbian municipalities 2006
2. {{Serbian census 2022
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4. "Climate: Priboj, Serbia". Climate-Data.org.
5. (2021). "Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC". [[Journal of World Prehistory]].
6. (3 September 2017). "Slobodne zone mamac za investitore". politika.rs.
7. "MUNICIPALITIES AND REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, 2023.". [[Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia]].