Lunjevica

Lunjevica
Луњевица
Village
An old oak on the estate of the Trifunović family
Lunjevica
Coordinates: 44°00′00″N 20°29′16″E / 44.00000°N 20.48778°E / 44.00000; 20.48778
Country Serbia
DistrictMoravica District
MunicipalityGornji Milanovac
Population
 (2002)
 • Total
512
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Lunjevica (Serbian Cyrillic: Луњевица) is a village in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 512 people.[1] Revolutionary Nikola Lunjevica was born in the village.

The village was active in the Serbian Revolution, being organized into the knežina (administrative unit) of Brusnica (Takovo) during the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13). Among notable local revolutionaries were: leader Nikola Lunjevica (1767–1842); vojvoda of Crna Gora knežina and Užice town Nikola Karamarković (1776–1816); vojvoda in Užice Joksim Karamarković (d. 1813) who fell at Ravnje.[2]

References

  1. ^ Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9
  2. ^ 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.

44°00′00″N 20°29′16″E / 44.00000°N 20.48778°E / 44.00000; 20.48778