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The Đurđevića Tara Bridge ( cyrl, Мост на Ђурђевића Тари, Most na Đurđevića Tari, ) is a 
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concrete
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arch bridge
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over the Tara River
The Tara ( sr-cyrl, Тара) is a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It emerges from the confluence of the Opasnica and Veruša rivers in the Komovi Mountains, part of the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro. The total length is 146 ...
in northern
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Montenegro
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It is located at the crossroads between the municipalities
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of Mojkovac
Mojkovac (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Мојковац, ) is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 3,590 (2011 census). Mojkovac is the centre of Mojkovac Municipality, which has a population of 8,622.Pljevlja
Pljevlja ( srp, Пљевља, ) is a town and the center of Pljevlja Municipality located in the northern part of Montenegro. The town lies at an altitude of . In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial roads and ...
and Žabljak
Žabljak ( Serbian / Montenegrin: Жабљак, ) is a small town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 1,723.
Žabljak is the seat of Žabljak Municipality (2011 population: 3,569). The town is in the centre of the Durmitor mountain ...
. The exact location of the bridge is between the villages of Budečevica and Trešnjica.
Construction
The Đurđevića Tara Bridge, which was designed by Mijat Trojanović, was built between 1937 and 1940 in theKingdom of Yugoslavia
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. The project's Chief Engineer was Isaac Russo.
The bridge has five arches; the largest span is . The roadway stands above the Tara River. At the time of its completion, it was the biggest vehicular concrete arch bridge in Europe
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World War II
Much of Montenegro, including the Tara Canyon, came under Italian occupation following the German-ledInvasion of Yugoslavia
The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, or ''Projekt 25'' was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was p ...
in April 1941. As the mountainous terrain made it suitable for guerrilla warfare, a partisan
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uprising occurred in the area. Italian forces took control of the Tara Bridge during an Italian offensive in 1942.
A Yugoslav Partisan raiding party blew up the southwesternmost arch with the aid of one of the bridge engineers, Lazar Jauković
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. The attack cut the only feasible crossing over the Tara Canyon halting the Italian advance. When Jauković was eventually captured, however, the Italians executed him on the bridge.
These events were depicted in the 1969 Yugoslav film ''Most
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Present day
The bridge was rebuilt in 1946. It was used in the 1978 British action film ''Force 10 from Navarone
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'' set during World War II. In more recent years bungee jumping
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has taken place from the longest arch directly above the river.
The bridge also plays a large part in the Dutch novel '' Het land achter Gods rug'' by A. den Doolaard, which was published in 1956. This novel is partly based on the true story of the bridge including its destruction by partisans during World War II.
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