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Desanka Pešut
Desanka Perović-Pešut ( sr-cyr, Десанка Перовић-Пешут, 14 October 1941 – 8 June 2021) was a Serbian shooting sports, sport shooter. She was born in Vrbas, Serbia, Vrbas. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia. At the ISSF World Shooting Championships, 1970 World Championships in Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, United States, she won one gold and two silver medals and received a golden badge for the best athlete of Yugoslavia of that year. References 1941 births 2021 deaths Sportspeople from Vrbas Serbian female sport shooters Yugoslav female sport shooters Olympic shooters for Yugoslavia Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics {{Serbia-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrbas, Serbia
Vrbas ( sr-Cyrl, Врбас; hu, Verbász) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the town had a population of 24,112, while the municipality had 42,092 inhabitants. Name Its name stems from the word "Willow" in the Serbian language. During the SFRY period, the town was renamed ''Titov Vrbas'' (meaning "the Vrbas of Tito"), after Josip Broz Tito. Like all other towns in Socialist Yugoslavia named after Tito, the first part was dropped once the new states were formed during the early 1990s. In Rusyn, the town is known as ''Вербас'', in Hungarian as ''Verbász'', in Croatian as ''Vrbas'', in German as ''Werbass'', and in Turkish as ''Verbas''. History Vrbas was mentioned first in 1213 during the administration of the Kingdom of Hungary. According to other sources, it was mentioned first in 1387. In the 16th century it became a part of the Ottoman Empire. During Ottoman administration i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
