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unusual facts about Bijela, Herceg Novi



Bijela, Herceg Novi

The 16th-century Pope Sixtus V was descended from a family originating in the area of Bijela.

As noted by the chronicler Andrija Zmajević, the future Pope's father was Piergentile di Giacomo, who was born in the village Bjelske Kruševice near Bijela and moved to Italy to escape the Ottoman conquest.

Goran Hadžić

In 2005, Serbian media reported he might be hiding in a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Irig or in Bijela, Montenegro.

Human trafficking in Montenegro

In October 2009, the government, in partnership with an NGO forum, conducted training on recognizing trafficked children in an orphanage in Bijela and among Roma children in the Konik refugee camp in Podgorica.

Lake of Ledinci

In 2003, Zdravko Čolić recorded a video for his song "Ao, nono bijela" at the site of the Lake of Ledinci.

Markovac, Bjelovar-Bilogora County

The population was Serbian Orthodox; the village didn't have a church, so some people went to the Serbian Orthodox church in Bijela.

Porto Montenegro

Projects related to Porto Montenegro include an 18-hole golf course in the vicinity of Tivat Airport, and a possible acquisition of Bijela shipyard by Peter Munk, which should serve as a yacht maintenance facility.

Risto Kovačić

Upon graduation, he became a professor at a gymnasium in Kotor and at a Serbian Naval School in Herceg Novi, from 1867 until 1871 and again from 1880 to 1881.

Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Tvrtko I of Bosnia

He built, and in 1382 opened the ports of Brstanik near Počitelj and Sveti Stefan, now known as Herceg Novi in Bay of Kotor Monte Negro as a line of defence from Dubrovnik and Kotor.

Užican dialect

These toponyms include Bila Rika, Siča Rika, Biluša, and others, which are today known as Bela Reka or Bijela Rijeka, Seča Reka, and Bjeluša (either Ijekavian accent or Ekavized during the 19th and 20th centuries).

These include Bela Reka, Kriva Reka, Seništa and others, which can often be heard as Bijela Rijeka, Kriva Rijeka, Sjeništa etc. in conversation among the locals.

Veljko Milatović

Veljko Milatović (Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић) (born 5 December 1921 in Nikšić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – died 19 October 2004 in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and the other time as President.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

Žarko Vukčević

Born in Herceg Novi, Vukčević moved to Titograd at a young age and started playing football for the youth side of FK Budućnost Titograd.


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