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<\/span>BERAN KR\u0160 - BERANE<\/div>
The site is located in Beranselo, approximately 2,5 km northwest from Berane. Archaeological researches on this site were conducted in 1961 and 1975. A house of a Neolithic type had been discovered (with the hearthstone), as well as parts of tools and furnishings, all dated in the middle of the 4th<\/sup> millennium BC (3600s BC). An altar of a baked clay was also discovered- an evidence of the Neolithic idolatry.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>CHURCH SVETI NIKOLA (ST. NICHOLAS)<\/div>
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Expert team of the Museum of Polimlje conducted the research of the floor of Church Sveti Nikola in Nikoljac, a suburb of Bijelo Polje, at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010. The founder\u2019s tomb and silver coins inside the tomb, from the time of rule of the dinasties Lazarevic and Brankovic, were discovered on that occasion, which served as the evidence that this church was older than it had been considered, and it is now believed that it was built in the 16th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>GRADAC IN BUDIMLJA - BERANE<\/div>
Gradac is a hill with a peak at an altitude of almost 1,000 meters above the sea level, in the village of Budimlja, approximately 3 km northeast of Berane, near the local road Berane-Polica.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, the locals brought to the museum the materials they accidentaly discovered at the slopes of Gradac. The fort at the top of the hill was discovered during the archaeological researches conducted in 2007, along with the series of objects inside and outside of the walls. The fort is of a circular shape, with two parallel walls, 1,8 m thick each, and it covers an area of 0,5 hectares.<\/p>\n

Discovered objects show the continuity of life on this hill, from the Copper Age until the time of the Ottoman rule over Serbian countries.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>GRADAC IN CRN\u010cA - BIJELO POLJE<\/div>
Gradac Hill, which dominates above the villages of Crn\u010da, Ivanje and Raduli\u0107i, in the municipality of Bijelo Polje, is located approximately 15 km northeast of Berane.<\/p>\n

Expert team of the Museum of Polimlje conducted archaeological research at this site in 2008, and discovered that a fortification of an elliptical shape at the top of the hill existed in the late antique period, covering the area of 1 hectare.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>HAJDAR PASHA MOSQUE - BIJELO POLJE<\/div>
Remains of Hajdar Pasha Mosque are located in the village of Raduli\u0107i, in the municipality of Bijelo Polje, approximately 20 km north of Berane. Museum of Polimlje conducted the protective archaeological researches of the remains of the mosque, in order to form the necessary documentation for the protection of Cultural Monuments. Architectural features suggested that the mosque was built in the 18th<\/sup> century.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>KREMEN\u0160TICA IN PETNJIK - BERANE<\/div>
This site is located in the village of Petnjik, approximately 2,5 km northeast from the center of Berane. There was a pile dwelling settlement which was partially researched in 1975, and the discovered material was classified to belong to the Early Neolithic Era.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>LISIJEVO POLJE - BERANE<\/div>
The site is located 2 km east of Berane, south of the suburb Donje Luge. Archaeological researches on this site were conducted in 1990 and the discovered material was dated to the Eneolithic era- the Copper and Bronze Age (2,500 – 1,200 BC).<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>LU\u017dAC - BERANE<\/div>
The site is located about 2 km west of Berane, in the village of the same name. When archaeological researches were conducted during the 1960s, it was concluded that a Roman fortress (castrum), with a series of ancillary facilities, existed on this site.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>CRN\u010cA MONASTERY COMPLEX - BIJELO POLJE<\/div>
In Crn\u010da, in the part of the village called Gornja Crn\u010da, below the Gradac Hill, the remains of the Church Sveti Jovan (St. John) were discovered during archaeological researches in 2007. The church was mentioned for the first time in the 13th<\/sup> century, and was plundered and destroyed by the Turks during the conquest of the area in 1455. It was restored in the 16th<\/sup> century and, judging by the discovered parts of the frescoes, it was fresco-painted at the time as well, before it was razed to the ground later again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>SOKOLAC MONASTERY COMPLEX - BIJELO POLJE<\/div>
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Sokolac is a village above Toma\u0161evo, in the municipality of Bijelo Polje. Monastery complex is located at 1,200 meters above the sea level, and it was mentioned in the 16th<\/sup> century. Museum of Polimlje conducted archaeological researches of the remains of the church on this site in 2007.<\/p>\n

Researches of konak and ancillary buildings had not been conducted.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>\u0106ELIJE MONASTERY COMPLEX IN KALUDRA - BERANE<\/div>
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The remains of the monastery complex \u0106elije are located approximately 10 km southeast of Berane, in the village of Kaludra, near the local road Berane-Kaludra.<\/p>\n

The team of the Museum of Polimlje conducted archaeological researches on this site in 1991 and discovered the remains of the church Sveti Luka (St. Luke) and monastery konak. Based on the found remains, it was concluded that the church was fresco-painted, but the exact time of construction and destruction of the church and the monastery complex has not been established so far.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>DJURDJEVI STUPOVI MONASTERY COMPLEX - BERANE<\/div>
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Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery \u2013 Church Sveti Georgije (Saint George) was founded by the prefect Prvoslav, the son of the great prefect Tihomir, the oldest brother of Stefan Nemanja. The church was built in 1213 and it was the seat of the Budimlja episcopacy, established by Sveti (Saint) Sava, the fourth established church after the Serbian Church obtained autocephaly in 1219. The names of eight bishops and nine metropolitans of Budimlja are known. This episcopacy became Metropolitanate in 15th<\/sup> century, but after the brutal murder of metropolitan Pajsije (Kola\u0161inovi\u0107), who was skinned alive in 1654, the Ottomans banned the election of the new metropolitan, so the archbishop\u2019s throne remained vacant for the next three and a half centuries.<\/p>\n

Episcopacy, today known as The Eparchy of Budimlja-Nik\u0161i\u0107, was restored at the beginning of this century and covered the territory of twelve municipalities in Montenegro (52% of the territory of Montenegro), where 150,000 of Orthodox inhabitants live. On the festivity of Mary Magdalene (4 August) in 2002, His Grace Joanikije (Mi\u0107ovi\u0107), Bishop of Budimlja-Nik\u0161i\u0107, was enthroned in the Bishop\u2019s throne in the Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, which was vacant for 348 years.<\/p>\n

During the past couple of decades, several protective archaeological researches were conducted by the Museum of Polimlje on this monastery complex, and carried out conservation work on the building of the church, when a number of exhibits was brought and temporarily placed in the Museum for processing and better treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>\u0160UDIKOVA MONASTERY COMPLEX - BERANE<\/div>
This monastery complex is located approximately 2 km northeast of Berane, at the beginning of Tifran gorge, in the village of Budimlja. It has not been determined yet when this monastery complex, along with the church Vavedenje Presvete Bogorodice, was built, but it was known that it had been a very important cultural center for a long time: copying, painting and monastic schools existed here. \u02bb\u02bbSvetotroji\u010dki zbornik\u02bc\u02bc was written here, and kept in the Sveta Trojica Monastery in Pljevlja (the reason why it is called like that); bishop Teofil wrote \u02bb\u02bbPogovor\u02bc\u02bc and \u02bb\u02bbMora\u010dka krm\u010dija\u02bc\u02bc here; Metropolitan Gerasim wrote \u02bb\u02bbMinej\u02bc\u02bc in 1574, which is kept in the National Library in Belgrade; monk Danilo wrote \u02bb\u02bbPsaltir\u02bc\u02bc in 1592, now located in Vienna; Deacon Mihailo wrote \u02bb\u02bbMolebnik\u2019\u2019 in 1602, kept in the library of Count Uvarov in Moscow, as well as \u02bb\u02bbBo\u017eenstveni apostol manastira \u0160udikove\u201d. \u201c\u0160udikovski pomenik\u201d is also very important. An art school also existed here and its most prominent representative was the priest Strahinja Budimljanin, a famous painter at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century.
\nThe Turks destroyed the entire monastery complex in 1738 and it was not restored until the beginning of the 21st century, when the new church with a konak (dormitory) was built on the foundations of the old church, under the patronage of Mr. Milo Djura\u0161kovi\u0107.
\nAt the beginning of the 20th century new researches were initiated on this site, but were banned because of inexpertness, and therefore could not be considered to be archaeological. At the beginning of this century, Museum of Polimlje conducted systematic archaeological researches of the monastery complex in 2002, when the remains of the church Vavedenje Presvete Bogorodice and the konak complex were discovered. Besides the material, a tombstone was discovered in the floor of the church, and it was dated to the 16th century.
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<\/span>MINA\u2019S CAVE IN KALUDRA - BERANE<\/div>
This rock shelter is located about 4 km east of Berane, in the canyon of the Kaludra River, near the local road Berane \u2013 Kaludra (village). It was devastated in the past by the local gold seekers, and the fragments of pottery and bone tools were discovered during the archaeological excavations conducted in 1992-93 and were dated to the Copper Age.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>NAMASTIR IN KO\u0160UTI\u0106I - ANDRIJEVICA<\/div>
The site is located approximately 20 km southwest of Berane, near the local road Andrijevica \u2013 Konjuhe, in the village of Ko\u0161uti\u0107i, in the municipality of Andrijevica.<\/p>\n

The systematic archaeological researches of the monastery complex, known as Namastir, were conducted during 2005 and 2008. Remains of a small church, with the size of 9,20 x 5,40 m, were discovered, and the material indicated\u00a0 that it was a church from the pre-Nemanjic era, the 10th<\/sup> or 11th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH SVETA JANJA IN LUBNICE - BERANE<\/div>
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In the village of Lubnice, 8 km west of Berane, several systematic archaeological researches were conducted in the village cemetary in 1999, during which the remains of the church of Sveta (Saint) Janja were discovered.<\/p>\n

Based on the remains of the foundation, it is believed that the church was built in the late 15th<\/sup> or early 16th<\/sup> century, and that it was fresco-painted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>CHURCH REMAINS IN BUDIMLJA - BERANE<\/div>
At the village cemetary in Budimlja, about 3 km northeast of Berane, an expert team of the Polimlje Museum conducted archaeological researches of the remains of the church with a rectangular apse in 1994, which indicated that it originated from the 12th<\/sup>-13th<\/sup> century. Remains of the walls have been preserved and the discovered material placed in the Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>RADMANCI GORGE - PETNJICA<\/div>
The site is located in the canyon of Radmanci River, about 25 km northeast from Berane, in the village of Radmanci, now the municipality of Petnjica. It is a rock shelter, 15 meters deep, where the material from the Copper Age was discovered.<\/p>\n

On the entrance side, this rock shelter is protected by a wall 6 meters tall, built in ancient times. Remains of a Roman aqueduct along the Radmanci River, show that this site belongs to the ancient period.\u00a0Archaeological researches on the site were conducted in 1990.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>RUDE\u0160- BERANE<\/div>
The site is located northeast of Berane, 1,5 km from the town, in the village of Budimlja. The site was largely devastated during the construction of, now former, Pulp and Paper Factory, at the beginning of the 1960s. Material which testifies the existence of life in this area at the transition from the Copper to the Iron Age, was preserved in the damaged necropolis.<\/p>\n

Material from this site was discovered by the inhabitants of Budimlja and given to the Museum, while a part of it was bought off.<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>TORINE - PETNJICA<\/div>
The site is located near the Radmanci Gorge, on the exit of the Radmanci River canyon. It is a plateau where the seasonal settlement existed. Systematic archaeological researches on this site were conducted in several campaigns in 2007 \u2013 2009, and very rich material from the Copper Age was discovered.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>TREBA\u010cKI KR\u0160 - BERANE<\/div>
The site is located 5 km south of Berane, in the village of Trep\u010da, near the main road Berane-Andrijevica-Plav. It is the rock shelter where archeological researches were conducted in the 1990s, and the remains of stone tools and stone microliths from the Mesolithic era – Middle Stone Age, were found.<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/span>TUMBARICE - BERANE<\/div>
The site is located in the village of Donja Rzanica, approximately 5 km east of Berane. Archaeological researches were conducted in 2008, and the remains of objects and fortresses with two sets of walls, which cover an area of 1,5 hectares, were discovered. 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