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Upper Kolasin (Gornji Kolašin in Bosnian), is a historic region in the present-day municipality of Kolasin in Montenegro. It is situated around the picturesque Tara River.
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History
See History of Kolasin.
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Demographics
According to the census of 2003, the area of Upper Kolasin has about 10.000 people, all of which are ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins.
Prior to the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, ethnic Bosniaks formed a majority in Upper Kolašin. However, all of them were expelled by 1886, opening up space for the settlement of ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins. Expulsion of Bosniaks from Upper Kolasin took place in 3 waves:
- 1858 - Following Battle of Grahovo, Montenegro annexed Gornje Lipovo and Recine;
- 1878 - According to the Treaty of Berlin, Montenegro annexed the town of Kolasin and all adjacent villages, all the way to Prepran, along both sides of the Tara River. The town was officially surrendered on October 4, 1878;
- 1886 - Montenegro annexed those villages in the North that were promised to it by the Treaty of Berlin, but whose Bosniak population rejected immediate occupation by Montenegro, namely Štitarica, Podbišće, Bjelojevići, Gornja and Donja Polja, Bistrica, and Dobrilovina.
Effectively, the entire area of Upper Kolašin was ethnically cleansed of Bosniaks by July 2, 1886.
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Geographical regions of Montenegro Bihor • Bjelopavlići • Boka Kotorska • Budva Riviera • Bukovica • Ceklin • Crmnica • Donji Kolašin • Gornji Kolašin • Krajina • Krivošije • Malesija • Montenegrin Littoral • Old Herzegovina • Old Montenegro • Piva • Podgora • Polimlje • Rudine • Sandžak • Zeta plain
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