Donja Vrbava

Donja Vrbava
Village
Donja Vrbava
Coordinates: 44°1′0″N 20°35′0″E / 44.01667°N 20.58333°E / 44.01667; 20.58333
Country Serbia
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Donja Vrbava (Serbian: Доња Врбава) is a village in central Serbia. Its inhabitants are known as Vrbavci. Located at 44°1′0″N 20°35′0″E / 44.01667°N 20.58333°E / 44.01667; 20.58333 and 538 m above sea level, it lies southwest of the city of Gornji Milanovac and northeast of the city of Kragujevac.

The village was active in the Serbian Revolution, being organized into the knežina (administrative unit) of Kačer during the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13). Milentije Pavlović (1766–1833), Miloš Obrenović's follower, was from Vrbava.[1]

The village had an electrical transformer installed in 2002.

References

  1. ^ Pavlović, Dragoljub M. (1990). "Учесници српских үстанака од 1804. до 1815. године из Рудничке и Пожешке нахије" [Participants aux insurrections serbes de 1804 et 1815 nés dans les nahies de Rudnik et de Požega] (PDF). Зборник радова Народног музеја у Чачку. XX: 115–131.