Krivošije

Coordinates: 42°33′N 18°39′E / 42.55°N 18.65°E / 42.55; 18.65
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Krivošije warriors, woodcut from Světozor magazine (5 June 1878)

Krivošije (Serbian Cyrillic: Кривошије, pronounced [kriv̞ɔ̌ʃijɛ]) is a microregion in southwestern Montenegro, located on a high plateau belonging to the Orjen mountain range, north of the Bay of Kotor. Krivošije was historically located at a tripoint between the Principality of Montenegro, Austro-Hungarian (formerly Venetian) Bay of Kotor and Ottoman Sanjak of Herzegovina.[1]

Geography

Krivošije are a mountainous

glacial deposits distributed across the whole of the plateau. They were deposited by valley glaciers coming from Orjen during the Ice Age. Krivošije is the region with the greatest rainfall in Europe.[2]

trad climbing.[3]

Settlements in the region include Crkvice (inhabited location with the highest annual precipitation in the Europe), Dragalj, Han, Malov Do, Knežlaz, Ubli [sr], Unijerina and Zvečava.[citation needed]

History

Monument in Crkvice dedicated to rebels of the Krivošije Uprising

Krivošije was under

Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77).[5]

During World War II, population of Krivošije was equally divided between

Communist Party cell in Herceg Novi.[8] In September 1944, the battles of the 10th Montenegrin NOV brigade in Krivošije had the largest echo in the Bay of Kotor and Paštrovići.[9]

Demographics

Mountainous Krivošije region was mostly inhabited by the tribes of

Kovač, Radojičić, Ilić, Bojanić, Kokotović, Vukićević, Komnenović, Tomović, Vodovar, Žmukić, Popović, Blagojević, Lakićević, Subotić, Miletić, Vidović and Lazović.[11]

Krivošije region faced significant demographic outflows in recent decades, particularly towards the Bay of Kotor. As of 2018, Krivošije, which covers roughly a third of the Kotor Municipality, has only around 110 permanent residents, in comparison with 1,053 inhabitants recorded in 1953.[12]

Culture

Most common

St. John the Baptist
(Jovanjdan), celebrated on 20 January.

The following churches were built in Krivošije:

  • Church of St. Petka in Poljice, built in the second half of the 17th or 18th century.[13]
  • Pokrov Bogorodice in Dragalj, built in 1867.[14]
  • Roždestvo Bogorodice in Malov Do, built in 1831.[14]
  • Church of St. John in Zvečava, built in the second half of the 17th century.[14]

A species of funnel-web spider called Histopona krivosijana was named after the region after its discovery there in 1935.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Luković 1951, p. 96.
  2. ISBN 9780486242187
    . Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Reovačka greda". montenegroclimbing.net. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  4. ^ Kostić 1970, p. 92.
  5. ^ Ćosović 2005, p. 82.
  6. ^ Vojnoistorijski institut 1963, p. 15.
  7. ^ Vučetić 1947, p. 46.
  8. ^ Vojnoistorijski institut 1963, p. 11.
  9. ^ Vojnoistorijski institut 1963, p. 6.
  10. ^ Erdeljanović 1977.
  11. ^ Komar 1995.
  12. ^ Krivošije - Dinarsko gorje
  13. ^ Nikolić 2003.
  14. ^ a b c Nikolić 2004.
  15. ^ "Histopona krivosijana (Kratochvil, 1935)". araneae.unibe.ch. Retrieved 5 December 2017.

Sources

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