Gornji Bučumet ( sr-cyr, Горњи Бучумет, Upper Bučumet) is a settlement in the

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Medveđa Medveđa ( sr-Cyrl, Медвеђа, ; , ) is a town and municipality located in the Jablanica District of southern Serbia. As of the 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 6,360, while the town has a population of 2,993. Etymology The ...

, in southern

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. According to the 2002 census, the village had a population of 139 people.

Name

The name ''bučumet'' is derived from Turkish ''bućumiš'', which means thick, impassable forest. According to B. Simeonov, the toponym is of

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origin.

Geography

The village of Bučumet is composed out of three ''

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'' (neighbourhoods): Upper, Lower (Доњи) and Middle (Средњи) Bučumet, which are all settlements registered separately in the census.Туристичка организација општине Медвеђа
: "У селу Бучумету је на темељима старе црквице сазидана нова слично као у низу села на подручју Лесковачког краја, нпр. У селима Прекопчелица, Штулцу, Рафуну, Лозану и др. Тешко је казати из којег је времена јер археолошких налаза нема. Ипак претпостављамо да је средњовековна. Најранији запис за сада је онај у турском попису из половине XV века. Током XVI века Бучумет сеспомиње у још три турска пописа. Данас постоје три махале истог села: Горњи, Доњи и Средњи Бучумет." The three settlements lie in the

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basin, above the

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, and as such are located in the Upper Jablanica region. The highest mountain in Upper Bučumet is Paramid (853), with the mountain of Sv. Petar (1149) being located in Middle Bučumet. The three neighbourhoods of Bučumet are 470 to 853 metres above sea level.

History

There is a medieval church built on the ruins of an older church. During the Toplica-Jablanica Operation ( Топличко-јабланичка операција 1944, ) in 1944, the Serbian Volunteer Corps and a German regimental group ''Dizner'' (Дизнер) were mobilized in the Statovac (Upper and Lower) - Bučumet (Upper and Lower) line, together with other Axis forces, surrounded the Yugoslav Partisans which were situated in the Vidojevica mountain and Rgač mountain. This was the third phase of the Operation, codenamed ''Halali''. The Partisans managed to extract the surrounded forces.

Infrastructure

The rural settlement of Gornji Bučumet is of the "broken type" (Села разбијеног типа), with scattered residential structure. The village has 42,9% inhabitants dependent on

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(

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and

viticulture Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine ...

).Stamenković 2002, p. 18: "ГОРЊИ БУЧУМЕТ (203 ст.), сточарско-ратарско и воћарско (42,9% аграрног ст.) сеоско насеље разбије- ног типа" There is a nearby gold mine, in Lece, located some kilometres west, where many inhabitants have worked in the past.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, the village had a population of 139 people, all of whom were ethnic Serbs. There were 119 adults, and the average life span was 47,3 years (44,7 in males, and 50,3 in females). There were 52 households, with average number of family members at 2,67.

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