Partner from Montenegro, Municipality of Pljevlja

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The Municipality of Pljevlja
Introduction
The town
Pljevlja is a town in the very north of Montenegro, situated on the borders of three countries: Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Municipality of Pljevlja within Montenegro borders with the municipalities of Žabljak, Pljevlja and Bijelo Polje. With an area of 1,346 km2, it is the third largest municipality in Montenegro. The town is situated at an altitude of 770m. According to the census from 2011 there were 30,786 inhabitants in Pljevlja, of which 19,136 lived in the urban town area.
It was in the fifteenth century that the town got its present name Pljevlja. According to the legend the name Pljevlja comes from ”chaff cutters”, the chaff dispersed by the wind throughout the town from the monastic estates, where grain grew. With the arrival of the Turks it was again renamed Taslidža.
Pljevlja’s history and people
Pljevlja is a town of long and rich past, encountering place of different civilization.
The oldest urban settlement in the region of Pljevlja, “Old Pljevlja”, was situated nearby modern town of Pljevlja, on the locality of Komini. Among the scientists it is known as Roman Municipium S, although some researches call the settlement Soloniana and some others Splonum. The settlement existed from 1st to 4th century, but in the beginning it did not have any municipal rights. Majority of the population was by origin from this area, but there was also immigrants from the Eastern and Western part of the Roman Empire.
Since the settlement of the Slavs, and Serbs among them, to the Balkans in 6-8th century, the region of Pljevlja presented nucleus of the Serbian state territory, at the time of Vlastimirović dynasty (7 – mid 10 century), from the reign of prince Vlastimir until the reign of prince Časlav. For centuries, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial roads and cultural streams. Important international roads connecting the Littoral (Dubrovnik and Kotor) with the Eastern parts of the Balkans, primarily Thessaloniki and Constantinople, run through it. In the middle ages, the region of Pljevlja was also a part of nucleus of the Serbian state under Nemanjić dynasty, until the end of the rule of the Emperor Dušan (1355). After his death, Pljevlja was under the rule of Serbian autonomous rulers Vojislav Vojinović and Nikola Altomanović. After the defeat of Nikola Altomanović (1373), by the joint forces of prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and Bosnian ban Tvrtko I, the region of Pljevlja made a part of the eastern section of the medieval Bosnian state, which was one of several Serbian states at the time.
On the site of modern Pljevlja, there was a medieval market place called Breznica. In the documents from the Archives of Dubrovnik researched so far, Breznica was mentioned for the first time in 1348, while the name Pljevlja occured in documents for the first time in 1423. In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja was famous and well developed commercial center.
Since 1465 until the liberation in 1912, Pljevlja was under the Ottoman rule. The Ottoman Empire conquered, as it is well known, the whole Balkan region, as well as large part of the Central Europe. During the Ottoman offensive, after strong resistance, the fortress of Kukanj, residence of duke Stefan, was destroyed. Fearing from the Turks, many merchants, almost all feudal land owners and wealthier population fled from Pljevlja. They went to the territory of the Venetian Republic, Dubrovnik or Italy. Since 1576 until 1833, Pljevlja was the capital of the province of Herzegovina, i.e. sandjak of Herzegovina, which made of it an important political centre, in which lived and worked large number of people from the whole province. After the Congress of Berlin (1878) and Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pljevlja became capital of sandjak of Pljevlja.
In the census book from 1516, there were already 20 Muslim and 130 Christian households. Gradually, from Serbian medieval market place Pljevlja became Ottoman kasaba, taking the image of the Oriental town.
From the architectural, social and cultural point of view, the strongest influence to the development of Pljevlja in 16th century was given by Hussein pasha Boljanić, outstanding personality in the Ottoman hierarchy, who ordered construction of several public buildings among which the most distinguished building is Hussein pasha’s mosque in down town Pljevlja.
From the end of 17th century, after the Turkish defeat under Vienna and the great Vienna War (1683-1699), the Ottoman empire entered the period of long wars, demografic turbulences and international social unrests. That made impact on the confessional structure of population of Pljevlja. The urban part of Pljevlja was inhabited at the beginning of the 19th century by 3000 Muslim and 5000 Ortodox inhabitants.
After the first Balkan War, when the Allied Balkan states Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro defeated Turkey, Pljevlja was liberated from the Turkish rule. That was on 28th October 1912.
During the First, as well as the Second World War Pljevlja had suffered a lot, there were many cesualties and victims from this area. The Austro-Hungarian army seized Pljevlja briefly for the first time in 1914; after that, from the end of 1915 until end of October 1918 this region was under the Austro-Hungarian occupation.
Representatives of both confessions from the region of Pljevlja took part at the work of the Great people’ s Assembly of the Serbian people in Montenegro, in Podgorica, at the end of November 1918, where the decision about the uniting of Montenegro with Serbia was made. During the time of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which was called Yugoslavia since 1929), between the two world wars, the district of Pljevlja was in administrative sense a part of the Užice region, and later of Banovina of Zeta.
During the Second World War, first the Germans, and then the Italians occupied Pljevlja. Since 1945, the region of Pljevlja has been a part of Republic of Montenegro, within the Federal Yugoslav state.
The date of liberation of Pljevlja is 20th November which is celebrated as The day of the Municipality of Pljevlja.
Economic development
The first sign of the modern economic life in Pljevlja could be traced to the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century. The stronger economic development of Pljevlja started between the two world wars, and the strongest civilization level in this area was achieved after 1945.
Pljevlja has a huge natural resources: wide plains, high quality forests, considerable resources of coal, lead and zinc, important hydro-potential and favourable conditions for development of tourism. National park Durmitor partially belongs to the Municipality of Pljevlja.
Opening of the Pljevlja Coal Mine, Mine Suplja Stijena (lead and zinc) and construction of Pljevlja Termal Power Plant contributed to the fact that Pljevlja nowdays represents the economic and industrial centre of Montenegro.
Culture and education
Culture and education are all present throughout history of Pljevlja and its region. The first educational life, until the beginning of modern education, was organized in churches and monasteries, as well as in the mosques some time later. The St. Trinity monastery in Pljevlja is the richest treasury of cultural and spiritual life of the Ortodox Serbs from the Middle Ages to the present times. The St. Trinity, Dovolja and other monasteries were centre of book copying activities, as well as artistic and artistic craftworks centres. In treasury of the St. Trinity many valuable manuscripts from 16th century onward are kept. The very valuable manuscripts from 14th century were taken from Pljevlja’s monasteries and are kept today in libraries in Prague, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin and other European cities.
The monastery of St. Trinity has valuable collection of icons, among them some icons of Greek and Russian origin.
The Islamic cultural heritage of Pljevlja is also very rich. In the Hussein-pasha’s mosque some very old manuscripts, as well as printed books are kept, among which there are manuscript of Koran, in Arabic script, with beautiful illumination on gold. Copying of islamic theological, stylistic, law books, as well as book dedicated to the other fields of art and science, was also one of the well developed activities in this town.
School in the monastery of St. Trinity has been working continuously since 16th century. In 1823, primary school in Pljevlja started working. The Serbian High School was opened in 1901. Between the two world wars and after the Second World War several professional schools were established. Among Muslim Turkish schools, one of the most famous is madrasa from the end of 16th century. In 18th century Pljevlja had three mektebs (elementary schools), two madrasa and three tekis (dervish post). During 19th century, there were also several mektebs, madaras, and in the second half of 19th century establishment of rushdiyas (Junior High School) began.
Cultural institutions and sport
By the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, first modern cultural institutions in Pljevlja started working.
After the Second World War, in Pljevlja, there were several cultural institutions such as: Cultural Artistic Society “Volodja”, National Theatre, National Library, Regional Museum, Archive, cultural manifestation called “Days of humor and satire” dedicated to Vuko Bezarević, Art gallery “Vitomir Srbljanović“.
Pljevlja is a town with a long sports tradition.
In 1934 a football club “Breznik” was founded. The first founded club after the Second World War was a chess club “Pljevlja” in 1945. In 1948 two basketball clubs were founded both in female and male competition. A handball club Rudar (founded in 1957) has also a long tradition and a lot of success as well as an athletic club, volleyball clubs, karateists, etc.
In 1960, for the first time, the 7th Sandjak sports games were organized, and due to this the number of sports activities increased. Pljevlja was the first town in Montenegro which got the organization of these games.
There are a lot of sports clubs in Pljevlja today whose members compete with success in Montenegro and abroad.
Pljevlja has a football stadium, sports hall and beautiful park with tracks so it has all necessary conditions for trainings of sportsmen.
PROJECT GREEN MOUNTAIN – A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR GREEN MOUNTAIN AREAS project financed trougth SEE Transnational Cooperation Programme partner from MONTENEGRO was Municipality of Pljevlja. In the framework of the project online platform has been developed to promote the areas that are included project. Lead partner on this project was province of Macerata, Italia.

[Sanela PacarizParticipant]

We are looking for a project leader and partners for two projects:
1. Project:
„Strengthening Civil Protection Mechanism in BiH“
INZA Institute for risk management and scientific research work, is the famous leader company for public and private partnerships in the field of civil protection. We continuosly provide service in the 40-years period to hundreds of different regional clients in the field of fire protection, work safety and environmental protection.
Contact us if you are interested in this project and if your territory is concerned by this topic
Mr. Edin Garaplija ; edin.garaplija@inzagroup.eu
Project activities:
– Equipping, training and exercise of specialist units,
– Raising awareness of preventive reactions in local communities and the most vulnerable categories of society,
– Purchase of specialist software for risk management and establishment of a single GIS database,
– Assess the risk and protection plans,
– Procurement of equipment for lifeguards, firefighters and rescue at heights,
– Production of the brochure for the education of children and youth in educational institutions,
– Organization of professional conferences..
– Project refers to the 10 municipalities in both entities of BiH and Brcko District. Total 21.
Planned project duration is 24 months on the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the sector of protection and rescue in the Ministry of Security BiH.
2. Project:
„Training regarding energy efficiency and the production of elaborates, energy certificates and energy efficiency in public institutions“
Project activities:
– Theoretical and practical training of personnel for the energy certificators:
Module 1 – Simple HVAC systems and
Module 2 – The complex HVAC system
– Elaborate of increasing the energy efficiency whit the energy certificate
– Planned project duration is 24 months.
– – Project refers to the 10 municipalities in both entities of BiH and Brcko District. Total 21.

[agri.te.co]

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Agri.te.co.

[Kebjana]

MED PARTNER SEARCH

I am writing to you on behalf of the Research and Development Centre, UET Centre established in Albania and I would like to express the interest for a possible of partnership as IPA partner.
UET Centre, as affiliated partner of the European University of Tirana, is already participating in different projects funded by the European Commission. Following the requirements of the call, UET Centre has an extensive experience with the local authorities in the eligible areas in Albania, which could express their interest to join our proposal.
In the meanwhile, UET Centre is has successfully finalized the NetCastle Project “Network creation and promotion of castles”, under IPA Greece-Albania Programme 2007-2013, aiming the emergence and promotion of a common cultural product in the cross-border region to boost tourism industry with the use of new technologies and e-tourism.
For further information please visit : http://www.uetcentre.org. You could contact me kebjana.haka@uet.edu.al

[atonacciParticipant]

Dear colleague,
the invitation to join the proposal is still valid or is out of date?
Thanks.

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