Pljevlja (mne)

Pljevlja

Pljevlja ranks 3,817th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Novi Pazar, Ocean City, New Jersey, and Kasukabe, Saitama. Memorable people born in Pljevlja include Bogdan Tanjević, Žarko Paspalj, and Slavko Vraneš. Pljevlja has been the birth place of many basketball players and politicians. Pljevlja is located in Montenegro.

Pljevlja is a town and the center of Pljevlja Municipality located in Montenegro in the northern region. The town lies at an altitude of 770 m (2,530 ft). In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial roads and cultural streams, with important roads connecting the littoral with the Balkan interior. In 2023, the municipality of Pljevlja had a population of 24,542, while the city itself had a population of 16,419. The municipality borders those of Žabljak, Bijelo Polje and Mojkovac in Montenegro, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west and Serbia to the northeast. With a total area of 1,346 km2 (520 sq mi), it is the third largest municipality in Montenegro. Read more on Wikipedia