Piva (
Serbian Cyrillic
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...
: Пива, ) is a historical region in
Montenegro
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, which existed as a
tribe
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also known as Pivljani (Пивљани, ). It is situated in the northwestern highlands of Montenegro, bordering
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
The
Piva River
The Piva (Serbian Cyrillic: Пива, ) is the river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The river runs through Montenegro for the most of its course length, and in its last three kilometres represents the border between the two countries.
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flows through the region. The regional center is the town of
Plužine
Plužine (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Плужине, ) is a town in northwestern Montenegro. In 2011 it has a population of 1,341.
Location
Town is located near the Piva lake (Pivsko) in the northwestern mountainous region of Montenegro, close to the ...
.
History
Ottoman period
Piva was a ''nahiya'' of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
, mentioned in the 1476–78 ''
defter
A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Description
The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...
''. It was earlier mentioned in the ''
Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
The ''Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea or Duklja'' ( sh, Ljetopis popa Dukljanina) is the usual name given to a purportedly medieval chronicle written in the late 13th century by an anonymous priest from Duklja. Its oldest preserved copy is in La ...
'' (c. 1300–10) as one of ten counties in the province of Podgorje, and in the
St. Stephen Chrysobull of Serbian king
Stefan Milutin
Stefan Uroš II Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Урош II Милутин, Stefan Uroš II Milutin; 1253 – 29 October 1321), known as Stefan Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Милутин, Stefan Milutin), was the King of Serbia between 1282&nd ...
(r. 1282–1321). It was part of
Sanjak of Herzegovina
The Sanjak of Herzegovina ( tr, Hersek Sancağı; sh, Hercegovački sandžak) was an Ottoman administrative unit established in 1470. The seat was in Foča until 1572 when it was moved to Taşlıca (Pljevlja). The sanjak was initially part of ...
during Ottoman rule.
The
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The majority of the population in ...
Piva Monastery
The Piva Monastery ( sr, Манастир Пивски, Manastir Pivski), also known as the Church of Sv. Bogorodica or the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God, is located in Piva, Montenegro near the source of the Piva River in nort ...
has stood in Piva since the 16th century. It has produced four Patriarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Modern
Under Prince
Nicholas I of Montenegro
Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyr, Никола I Петровић-Његош; – 1 March 1921) was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 19 ...
and the
Congress of Berlin
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recognition, in 1878 the Piva together with the Serb Herzegovinian tribes of
Banjani
Banjani ( sr-cyrl, Бањани) was a tribe of Old Herzegovina, and historical region in western Montenegro. Its territory comprises , west of Nikšić, in the centre between Nikšić and Bileća, from the top of Njegoš mountain to the Trebi ...
,
Nikšići,
Šaranci,
Drobnjaci
Drobnjaci (, ) are historical tribe and region, Drobnjak, in Old Herzegovina in Montenegro (municipalities from Nikšić to Šavnik, Žabljak and Pljevlja). Its unofficial centre is in Šavnik. The Serb Orthodox families have St. George (''Đu ...
and a large number of the
Rudinjani formed the Old Herzegovina region of the new Montenegrin state.
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, people of the region fought in both the Serbian royalist
Chetnik
The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...
and communist
Partisan
Partisan may refer to:
Military
* Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon
* Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
Films
* ''Partisan'' (film), a 2015 Australian film
* ''Hell River'', a 1974 Yugoslavian film also know ...
resistance movements
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, which fought against each other.
The tribe has since the arrest of
Radovan Karadžić
Radovan Karadžić ( sr-cyr, Радован Караџић, ; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet. He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tr ...
, the wartime
Bosnian Serb
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби у Босни и Херцеговини, Srbi u Bosni i Hercegovini) are one of the three constitutive nations (state-forming nations) of the country, predominantly residing in the politi ...
president and member of the neighbourly Drobnjak tribe of Petnjica (from which the Serbian language reformer
Vuk Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the mode ...
also descends), petitioned for Tadić's excommunication from the tribe because of Karadžić's arrest. The arrest is seen as directly bad behavior against the Serbian people and from the Piva against the
Drobnjak Drobnjak may refer to:
* Drobnjak, Montenegro, a region in Montenegro and tribe
or:
* Anto Drobnjak, Montenegrin football player
* Branislav Drobnjak, Montenegrin football player
* Dragiša Drobnjak, Slovenian basketball player
* Predrag Drobn ...
tribe, who had never before had any problems, and it is because of this Tadić's actions have been condemned.
Notable people
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Bajo Pivljanin
Bajo Pivljanin ( sr-cyr, Бајо Пивљанин – 7 May 1685), born Dragojlo Nikolić, was a Montenegrin and Serbian ''hajduk'' commander mostly active in the Ottoman territories of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia. Born in Piva, at the ...
(d. 1685), Venetian guerilla leader, born in Piva
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Stojan Čupić
Stojan Čupić (, sr-cyr, Стојан Чупић; ca. 1765 – 1815) was a Serbian revolutionary general (''vojvoda''), one of the most important commanders of the First Serbian Uprising. He was active in the Mačva region.
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(1765–1815), Serbian revolutionary, born in Piva
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Arsenije Loma
Arsenije Loma ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Лома; 1768–1815) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander) in the First and Second Serbian Uprising of the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817). He was appointed by Karađorđe to command Kačer in ...
(1778-1815), one of the leaders of the
First Serbian Uprising
The First Serbian Uprising ( sr, Prvi srpski ustanak, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; tr, Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 18 ...
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Simo and Sćepan Kecojević, soldiers, born in Boričje, Plužine
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Radoman Božović
Radoman Božović ( sr, Радоман Божовић; born 13 January 1953) is a Serbian politician and former Prime Minister of Serbia.
Biography
Božović was born in Šipačno, Montenegro in 1953. He completed grades 1-3 of elementary school ...
, Prime Minister of Serbia 1991–93, born in Šipačno, Plužine
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Ljubomir Tadić, Yugoslav and Serbian academic, born in Plužine area
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Jovan Cvijić
Jovan Cvijić ( sr-cyr, Јован Цвијић, ; 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade. Cvijić is considered the ...
, Serbian academic, by distant paternal ancestry
*patriarch
Makarije Sokolović
Makarije Sokolović ( sr-cyrl, Макарије Соколовић ; died 1574) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1557 to 1571. He was the first head of the restored Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, after its lapse in 1463 that r ...
*partiarch
Savatije Sokolović
Savatije Sokolović ( sr-cyr, Саватије Соколовић; 1573 – d. 1586), was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1585 to 1586. Before that, he served as Metropolitan of Herzegovina from 1573 to 1585. He was a member of the ...
*vojvoda
Lazar Sočica
Lazar Sočica ( sr-cyr, Лазар Сочица; 1838 – 1910) was Piva chieftain, Montenegrin vojvoda, military commander and political leader, from the Old Herzegovina region.
Lazar's father Risto died in 1848, and his mother then remarried ...
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Blagoje Adžić
Blagoje Adžić ( sr-Cyrl, Благоје Аџић, (); 2 September 1932 – 1 March 2012) was a Serbian colonel general who served as an acting Minister of Defence of the Yugoslavia government.
Biography
Adžić was born into a Serb family in ...
, Yugoslav general
*patriarch
Antonije Antonije is a Serbian given name. Notable people with this name include the following:
*Antonije Abramović (1919–1996), Montenegrin Eastern Orthodox priest
* Antonije Bagaš (fl. 1366 – 1385), Serbian nobleman
*Antonije Isaković (1923–2002 ...
*patriarch
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First name
* Gerasim Izmailov, Russian navigator
* Gerasim - deaf and mute serf, a character i ...
*
Spasoje Tadić
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Radoje Dakić Radoje (Cyrillic script: Радоје) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It may refer to:
*Radoje Domanović (1873–1908), writer
*Radoje Đerić (born 1991), rower
*Radoje Knežević (1901–1981), politician
*Radoje Kontić (born 1937) ...
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Obren Blagojević
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Jovan Vuković
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Aleksandar Tijanić
Aleksandar Tijanić ( sr-cyr, Александар Тијанић; 13 December 1949 – 28 October 2013) was a Serbian journalist and director of the country's public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia from 2004 to 2013. During his career he wa ...
, by paternal ancestry
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Vidoje Žarković
Vidoje Žarković (Plužine, 10 June 1927 – Beograd, 29 September 2000) was a communist politician from Socialist Republic of Montenegro
The Socialist Republic of Montenegro ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Crna G ...
*
Milka Tadić Milka Tadić, or Milka Tadić Mijović, is a well-known Montenegrin journalist, media executive and international civic activist.
Biography
Milka Tadić Mijović was one of the co-founders and the executive director of ''Monitor'', the first priv ...
, by paternal ancestry
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Ivan Kecojević
Ivan Kecojević (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Иван Кецојевић, born 10 April 1988) is a Montenegrin footballer who plays as a central defender.
Club career Early career
Born in Bar, he started playing in his hometown club FK Mornar. He made ...
, by paternal ancestry
*
Dragan Mićanović
Dragan Mićanović ( sr, Драган Мићановић; born 30 September 1970) is a Serbian actor. He had roles in the films ''Layer Cake'' (2004), ''The White Countess'' (2005) and ''RocknRolla'' (2008). Mićanović played his first role abr ...
, by paternal ancestry
*
Momčilo Bajagić Momcilo or Momčilo (Cyrillic script: Момчило) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It is often found in Serbia and Montenegro. It may refer to:
*Momčilo Bajagić, Serbian rock musician
* Momčilo Bošković (born 1951), retired Serb ...
, by distant paternal ancestry
*
Bojan Dubljević
Bojan Dubljević (born 24 October 1991) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player and the team captain for Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He also represents the senior Montenegrin national basketball team in national ...
*
Jelena Dubljević
Jelena Dubljević (born May 7, 1987) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for Botaş SK. She is also part of the Montenegrin national team. She competed in the 2011 Eurobasket tournament with Montenegro. In 2016, Dubljević signed w ...
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Stefan Cicmil, by paternal ancestry
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Milan Gutović
Milan Gutović ( sr-cyr, Милан "Лане" Гутовић; 11 August 1946 – 25 August 2021) was a Serbian and Yugoslav actor, cabaret performer and television personality. He is best known for his portrayal of Srećko Šojić in '' Tesna ...
, by paternal ancestry
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Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology ...
, by paternal ancestry
*
Ognjen Tadić
Ognjen Tadić ( sr-cyrl, Огњен Тадић; born 20 April 1974) is a Bosnian Serb politician, lawyer, journalist and sociologist who was a member of the national House of Peoples from 2011 to 2019. Previously, he was member of the National As ...
, by paternal ancestry
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Novica Tadić
Novica Tadić ( Smriječno, Plužine, 17 July 1949 – Belgrade, 23 January 2011) was a Serbian poet.
Biography
He was born in a small village in Montenegro and spent most of his life in Belgrade.
His work was supported by many United States poe ...
References
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External links
Piva online
{{Geographical regions of Montenegro
Tribes of Montenegro
Plužine Municipality