Popovo Valley

Popovo Valley

Popovo Polje (Translation: Priest's field) is a valley in Herzegovina, famous for its karst landscape. The Trebišnjica River flows through the valley. To the south of the valley is the Vjetrenica cave system, the reaches cave fauna places at all.

Vojislav Šešelj was born and grew up here. He was the founder of Serbian Radical Party. He is currently under indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity.

ee also

*Hercegovina
*Trebinje
*Saint Basil of Ostrog


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