PRIBOJ
Friendly Town
on the Banks of the Lim River
THE HOSPITABLE AND HARDWORKING PEOPLE OF PRIBOJ WHOLEHEARTEDLY WELCOME GOOD-HEARTED VISITORS. MANY BOSNIANS AND HERZEGOVINIANS WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN TO THIS TOWN SITUATED CLOSE TO THE BORDER BETWEEN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND SERBIA HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED IT. Written by: Semra Hodžić
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riboj is a regular stopping point for many travellers on their way Podgorica, Bar or Belgrade. It is mainly known for “Fabrika automobila Priboj”, a factory that manufactures widely popular trucks, buses and trailers, which has been operating for nearly 70 years, and “Poliester”, a company that manufactures plastic items and car parts.
A SPA WITH A POWER TO HEAL Only five kilometres from the town centre there sits Pribojska Banja, a spa renowned for the healing properties of thermal and mineral water springs. It is located on a plateau above the right bank of the River Lim at an altitude of 530 to 550 metres and surrounded by the Stari Vlah Mountain, which also makes it an air spa. In the centre of the spa there are several thermal and mineral water springs with a water temperature of about 37 degrees Celsius. Spa water is used as an auxiliary therapeutic agent, both for bathing and drinking, in all types of chronic joint and extraarticular rheumatism, peripheral nerve diseases, in all types of post-traumatic conditions, spinal diseases, peripheral circulation disorders, gynaecological diseases, skin diseases, digestive organ diseases, etc.
THE LARGEST MOSQUE IN PRIBOJ Situated in the heart of Priboj’s Old Town quarters, Hasan Agha Mosque is the largest and most beautiful mosque in the Priboj area. In 1758, when the county administrator Hasan Agha, the son of Mustafa, assumed the position of Priboj area administrator, he had a masjid built first, and soon enough he had the minarets of the mosque, which
was later named after him, built too. His hometown owes him a lot. In addition to the mosque, he had a maktab (a Muslim primary school) and some other buildings constructed there too. They were all converted into a waqf (a charitable endowment) on 7 July 1758. Hasan Agha was buried in the mosque’s courtyard (enclosed burial ground). The old tombstones in the mosque’s courtyard presumably belong to him and his descendants. 115
