Podrinje
Now that Serbia is greatly diminished from its historical boundaries, Podrinje is the most westerly region of the modern Republic of Serbia and abuts both Bosnia Herzogovina and Montenegro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Užice and Novi Pazar.
Užice
Užice is a city in Western Serbia. It has an attractive setting, in a limestone gorge, with red-roofed houses spreading up the hillsides. However, the central area is largely concrete and quite run down.
Novi Pazar
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Novi Pazar is a city of 100,000 people in Podrinje. The city is the cultural centre of the Bosniaks in Serbia and the region of Sandžak. A multicultural area of Muslims and Orthodox Christians, many monuments of both religions, like the Altun-Alem Mosque and the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, are found in the region which has a total of 30 protected monuments of culture.
Prijepolje
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Prijepolje is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. As of 2022, the town has 11,928 inhabitants, while the municipality has 32,214 inhabitants.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Zlatibor and Kopaonik National Park.
Zlatibor
Zlatibor is a very popular mountain resort area in south-western Serbia. It is bounded on the north by Mount Tara, to the east by the Veliki Rzav River, to the south by the Uvac River and to the west by Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kopaonik National Park
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Kopaonik is a mountain range located in Kosovo and Serbia. The highest point of this mountain range is the Pančić's Peak with an altitude of 2,017 m. The central part of the Kopaonik plateau was declared a national park in 1981 which today covers an area of 121.06 km2.
Podrinje
- Type: Region
- Description: Slavic name of the Drina river basin
- Category: river valley
- Location: Serbia, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Podrinje” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Podrine”
- Bosnian: “Istočna Bosna”
- Bosnian: “Podrinje”
- Bulgarian: “Подриние”
- Chinese: “德里納河河谷地區”
- Chinese: “波德里涅”
- Croatian: “Istočna Bosna”
- Croatian: “Podrinje”
- Czech: “Podriní”
- French: “Podrinje”
- Greek: “Ποντρίνιε”
- Greek: “Πόντρινιε”
- Hebrew: “פודריניה הבוסנית”
- Italian: “Podrinje”
- Macedonian: “Подриње”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Podrinje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Podrinje”
- Polish: “Podrinje”
- Romanian: “Podrinje”
- Russian: “Подринье”
- Serbian: “Podrinje”
- Serbian: “Подриње”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočna Bosna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Podrinje”
- Ukrainian: “Подриння”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Podrinje”. Photo: Soshial, CC BY-SA 4.0.