Plav, Montenegro
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Plav
Плав Plavë | |
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Town and municipality | |
UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 84325 |
Area code | +382 51 |
ISO 3166-2 code | ME-13 |
Car plates | PL |
Climate | Cfb |
Plav (Cyrillic: Плав; Albanian: Plavë) is a town in Montenegro in the northern region. It has a population of 3,717 (2011 census). Plav is the centre of Plav Municipality (population of 9,081 following the formation of Gusinje Municipality).
Name
The name Plav (Плав) is derived from Slavic plav, "a flooded place" (poplava, "flood").[1][2]
Geography
Plav is located at the foot of the
The area contains many lakes and the most known is Lake Plav, one of the largest in this region. The lakes Hrid and Visitor are mountain lakes, and Visitor is noted for its floating island.
Plav is also renowned for its
History
The toponym Hotina Gora (mountains of Hoti) in the Plav and Gusinje regions on the Lim river basin in 1330 is the first mention of the Hoti name in historical records in the chrysobulls of Dečani. Šufflay considers this region as the original area of settlement of Hoti from which they moved southwards.[3][4]
The Ottoman census organised in 1582-83 registered the Plav nahiyah within the Sanjak of Scutari with 18 villages; according to historian Milan Vasić all inhabitants had personal names with a Slavic character, and no Muslim name was present.[5][need quotation to verify]
According to a 16th-century travel record by
After the Serbian-Venetian nobleman Mariano Bolizza in Cattaro (Kotor), who wrote the Relazione e descrizione del sangiacato di Scutari ("Relations and Description of the Sanjak of Scutari") in 1614 Plav was mostly inhabited by Albanians under the command of Sem Zaus (Cem Çaushi) of Podgorica.[7]
The two strongest feudal families in the
In 1878, following the
The entry of the Montenegrin army in 1912-13 and the Yugoslav army after 1919 in Plav-Gusinje was accompanied by repressive policies against the local population.The Montenegrin army captured the region and entered Plav on 19 October and 20 October. Its entry was followed by a
In 1919, an Albanian revolt, which later came to be known as the Plav rebellion rose up in the Plav, Gusinje and Rozaje districts, fighting against the inclusion of
Dialect
Plav is almost entirely Muslim and either Slavic-speaking or Albanian-speaking. The Slavic dialect of Gusinje and Plav shows very high structural influence from Albanian. Its uniqueness in terms of language contact between Albanian and Slavic is explained by the fact that most Slavic-speakers in today's Plav are of Albanian origin, representing a case of an Albanian-speaking population shifting to a Slavic-speaking one. The dialect of Albanian that Plav speaks is northwestern Gheg at the west of Plav, and northeastern Gheg at the east of Plav.[18][19]
Sport
In the area of the Plav municipality there are 13 sports clubs and societies that are actively engaged in sports and competitions. Some are in the First Montenegrin league and some in the Second Montenegrin league.[citation needed]
Sport clubs:
- Football Club Jezero
- Football Club Gusinje
- Football Club Polimlje
- Handball Club Plav
- Chess Club Jezero
- Karate Club Jezero
- Kayak Club Plavsko Jezero
- Sport Fishing Society Plavsko Jezero
- Mountaineering Skiing Society Kofiljaca
- Skiing-mountain Society Karanfil
- Mountaineering Society Visitor
- Hunting Society Rocks Plav
- Hunting Sports Society May carnation
- Basketball Club Balkanski Ris
Demographics
Plav is administrative centre of Plav Municipality, which in 2011 had a population of 9,081, mostly Bosniaks, with a smaller minority of Albanians and other groups. The town of Plav itself has 3,717 citizens.
Historical population:
- 1981 - 3,348
- 1991 - 4,073
- 2003 - 3,165
- 2011 - 3,717
Ethnicity | Number | Percentage |
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Bosniaks | 2,806 | 75.50% |
Albanians | 341 | 9.17% |
Montenegrins | 182 | 4.90% |
ethnic Muslims |
175 | 4.71% |
Serbs | 165 | 4.44% |
Other | 48 | 1.29% |
Total | 3,717 | 100% |
Notable people
- Jakup Ferri, Albanian rebel
- Esad Mekuli, Albanian poet and scholar.
- Miodrag Džudović, footballer
- Mirsad Huseinovic, footballer
- Mersim Beskovic, footballer
- Ekrem Jevrić, singer
- Jashar Rexhepagiq, pedagogue and member of the Academy of Sciences of Kosovo
- Radovan Zogović, writer
- Smail Tulja, convicted murderer of New Yorker Mary Beal and suspected of being the Butcher of Mons
International relations
Plav is
See also
References
- ^ Contributions onomatologiques. Vol. 18. Akademija. 2005. p. 8.
- ISBN 978-86-7025-621-7.
- ^ Ahmetaj, Mehmet (2007). "TOPONYMY OF HOTI". Studime Albanologjike. 37: 170. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
Kundruar historikisht që në krye të herës, sipas kapërcejve historikë, Hoti i Kujit si vendbanim i moçëm thjesht me burim shqiptar dokumentohet, përkatësisht daton që moti, në Krisobulën e Deçanit, që nga viti 1330, ku përmenden hotjanët në malet në jug të fushës së Plavës ("Hutina Gora"), sot Malet e Hotit, të cilat sipas mendimit të M. Shuflajt duhet të kenë qenë djepi i fisit Hot.
- ^ Šufflay, Milan (1925). Srbi i Arbanasi: njihova simbioza u srednjem vijeku. Izdanje seminara za arbanasku filologiju. pp. 60–61. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- OCLC 29549273
- ISBN 978-0-19-259923-0.
- ISBN 9783447047838
- ^ Dedushaj 1993, p. 53.
- ^ Dedushaj 1993, p. 47.
- ^ Gawrych 2006, pp. 49, 61–63.
- ^ Milosević 2013
- ^ Morrison 2018, p. 56.
- ^ Giuseppe Motta, Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 1 , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, p. 11
- ^ Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Part 1, LIT Verlag Münster, 2008, p. 221
- ^ Morrison 2018, p. 21.
- ISBN 978-0-7391-4667-5.
- ISBN 978-1-5017-0194-8.
- ^ Curtis 2012, p. 40.
- ^ :Matthew C., Curtis (2012). Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence. The Ohio State University. p. 140.
On the other hand, there are some areas, particularly in Montenegro, where Albanian-speaking populations have shifted to Slavic-speaking ones, such as the tribes of Piperi and Kuči, the Slavic Muslim populations in Plav/Plavë and Gusinje/Gucia, and perhaps with the Mrković.
- ^ "Deçani dhe Ulqini binjakëzohen". kk.rks-gov.net (in Albanian). Deçan. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
Sources
- Gornje Polimlje: priroda, stanovništvo i naselja. Geografski institut Filozofskog fakulteta. 2005. ISBN 978-86-7794-000-3.
- Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti (1985). Posebna izdanja. Vol. 566–567. p. 110.
- Dedushaj, Rexhep (1993). Krahina e Plavë-Gucisë nëpër shekuj [The region of Plav-Gusinje throughout the centuries]. New York.
- Morrison, Kenneth (2018). Nationalism, Identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781474235204.