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33-455: The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave ( Međurječje village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality. The town of Priboj lies on

66-577: A graffito exists in which he referred to himself as Evliya-yı Gülşenî ("Evliya of the Gülşenî"). A devout Muslim opposed to fanaticism, Evliya could recite the Quran from memory and joked freely about Islam. Though employed as a clergyman and entertainer at the Imperial Court of Sultan Murad IV , Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling. Çelebi had studied vocal and instrumental music as

99-504: A large amount of buying and selling occurred in Mecca during the pilgrimage season. He wrote one of history's longest and most ambitious accounts of travel writing in any language, the Seyahatnâme . Although many of the descriptions in the Seyahatnâme were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or third-source misinterpretation, his notes remain a useful guide to

132-541: A pupil of a renowned Khalwati dervish by the name of 'Umar Gulshani, and his musical gifts earned him much favor at the Imperial Palace, impressing even the chief musician Amir Guna. He was also trained in the theory of music called ilm al-musiqi . His journal-writing began in Istanbul, with the taking of notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture, and in 1640 it was augmented with accounts of his travels beyond

165-579: Is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia . The municipality of Nova Varoš has a population of 13,507, while the town of Nova Varoš itself has a population of 7,542 inhabitants. Nova Varoš was founded in the middle of the 16th century. It is associated with the name of Skender Pasha of Genoa . When Skender-pasha, travelling from Bosnia to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (1530), stopped with his entourage on

198-646: Is mountain Murtenica , while the south mountain Zlatar . Nova Varoš has an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfb ). According to the last official census done in 2022, the Municipality of Nova Varoš has 13,507 inhabitants. Population density on the territory of the municipality is 23 inhabitants per square kilometer. In 1991, the population of the municipality was composed of: Serbs and Montenegrins (89.20%), ethnic Muslims (8.51%) and others. In 2002,

231-571: Is unclear whether he was in Istanbul or Cairo at the time. Çelebi claimed to have encountered Native Americans as a guest in Rotterdam during his visit of 1663. He wrote: "[they] cursed those priests, saying, 'Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled by greedy people, who make war every year and shorten our lives.'" While visiting Vienna in 1665–66, Çelebi noted some similarities between words in German and Persian , an early observation of

264-646: The Ottoman court , his father, Dervish Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazian relation of the grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha . In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi , the earliest known Turkic poet and an early Sufi mystic. Evliya Çelebi received a court education from the Imperial ulama (scholars). He may have joined the Gulshani Sufi order, as he shows an intimate knowledge of their khanqah in Cairo , and

297-593: The Parthenon 's sculptures and described the building as "like some impregnable fortress not made by human agency." He composed a poetic supplication that the Parthenon, as "a work less of human hands than of Heaven itself, should remain standing for all time." Of oil merchants in Baku Çelebi wrote: "By Allah's decree oil bubbles up out of the ground, but in the manner of hot springs, pools of water are formed with oil congealed on

330-660: The "Kılab" or Llapi river as having its source in Arnavudluk (Albania) and by extension the Sitnica as being part of that river. Çelebi also included the central mountains of Kosovo within Arnavudluk. Çelebi travelled extensively throughout Albania , visiting it on 3 occasions. He visited Tirana , Lezha , Shkodra and Bushat in 1662, Delvina , Gjirokastra , Tepelena , Skrapar , Përmet , Berat , Kanina , Vlora , Bashtova, Durrës , Kavaja , Peqin , Elbasan , and Pogradec in 1670. In 1667 Çelebi expressed his marvel at

363-562: The 17th century, mentioned the northeast of Bulgaria as the Uz (Oğuz) region, and that a Turkish speaking Muslim society named Çıtak consisting of medium-sized, cheerful and strong people lived in Silistra , and also known as the "Dobruca Çitakları" in Dobruja . He also emphasizes that "Çıtaklar" is made up of a mixture of Tatars , Vlachs , and Bulgarians . In 1660 Çelebi went to Kosovo and referred to

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396-637: The 1970s and 1980s, when it was one of the biggest producers of trucks and buses in the former Yugoslavia. Since the 1990s, FAP has been working in limited capacity and since the 2010s its only remaining production is military-oriented. As of September 2017, Priboj has one of 14 free economic zones established in Serbia. The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2022): Nova Varo%C5%A1 Nova Varoš ( Serbian Cyrillic : Нова Варош , pronounced [nɔ̂v̞aː v̞ǎːrɔʃ] )

429-449: The Crimea but only 187,000 free Muslims. In contrast to many European and some Jewish travelogues of Syria and Palestine in the 17th century, Çelebi wrote one of the few detailed travelogues from an Islamic point of view. Çelebi visited Palestine twice, once in 1649 and once in 1670–1. An English translation of the first part, with some passages from the second, was published in 1935–1940 by

462-676: The central part of the region as Arnavud (آرناوود) and noted that in Vushtrri its inhabitants were speakers of Albanian or Turkish and few spoke Bosnian . The highlands around the Tetovo , Peja and Prizren areas Çelebi considered as being the "mountains of Arnavudluk". Çelebi referred to the "mountains of Peja" as being in Arnavudluk (آرناوودلق) and considered the Ibar river that converged in Mitrovica as forming Kosovo's border with Bosnia . He viewed

495-681: The confines of the city. The collected notes of his travels form a ten-volume work called the Seyahâtname ("Travelogue"). Departing from the Ottoman literary convention of the time, he wrote in a mixture of vernacular and high Turkish, with the effect that the Seyahatname has remained a popular and accessible reference work about life in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, including two chapters on musical instruments . Evliya Çelebi died in 1684, it

528-407: The culture and lifestyles of the 17th century Ottoman Empire. The first volume deals exclusively with Istanbul, the final volume with Egypt. Currently there is no English translation of the entire Seyahatnâme , although there are translations of various parts. The longest single English translation was published in 1834 by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall , an Austrian orientalist: it may be found under

561-481: The following settlements: According to 2022 census, the municipality of Priboj has 23,514 inhabitants. In 1991, the population of the Priboj municipality numbered 35,951 people, and was composed of Serbs (67.26%), Muslims (30.39%) and others. Most of those who in 1991 census declared themselves as ethnic Muslims , in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks , while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by ethnicity. In 2022,

594-558: The inhabitants stayed there and built a new town which they called Nova Kasaba, which in Serbian means Nova Varoš. Nova Varoš is located in southwest Serbia, the main road that connects the north of the country the Montenegrin coast. It is situated at 1000 meters above sea level, and below the northern slopes of mountain Zlatar . Nova Varoš is located in the Dinaric mountain range . North of town

627-521: The late Vinča culture . During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valley of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Ottoman invasion in the middle of 15th century. Between 1459 and 1463, the town of Priboj was first mentioned in written documents of the Ottoman Empire . Aside from the town of Priboj, the municipality includes

660-434: The name "Evliya Efendi." Von Hammer-Purgstall's work covers the first two volumes (Istanbul and Anatolia ) but its language is antiquated. Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete translation into German of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality written by Robert Dankoff , and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of

693-415: The plateau below the mountain Zlatar and was delighted with the beauty of this wooded area and the intoxicating smell of pine, he ordered a town to be built there. Settlements soon sprang up on the site of today's Nova Varoš. It was called Skender-pašina palanka ( Skender-pasha's Palanka ). When it grew to close to 2,000 houses, "a fire broke out and burned the palace to the ground" ( Evliya Çelebi ). Most of

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726-459: The population of the municipality was composed of: Serbs (18,001) (90.09%), Bosniaks (1,028) (5.15%), ethnic Muslims (502) (2.51%) and others. Most of those who in 1991 census declared themselves as Muslims by ethnicity , in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks, while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by ethnicity. Ethnic composition of the municipality according to 2011 and 2022 censuses: Aside from

759-519: The population of the town was 13,172, and was composed of Serbs (9,155), Bosniaks (2,153), ethnic Muslims (687) and others. As of 2022, most of Priboj's population is of Serbian ethnicity (71.9%), with nearly 21.5% being Bosniaks and Muslims . The ethnic composition of the municipality: Today, most of Priboj's economy is based on agriculture, services and partly industry. Priboj is home to the FAP Corporation, which pushed Priboj's development during

792-691: The regions. By the time of Çelebi's arrival, many of the towns visited were affected by the Cossacks, and the only place in Crimea he reported as safe was the Ottoman fortress at Arabat . Çelebi wrote of the slave trade in the Crimea: A man who had not seen this market, had not seen anything in this world. A mother is severed from her son and daughter there, a son—from his father and brother, and they are sold amongst lamentations, cries of help, weeping and sorrow. Çelebi estimated that there were about 400,000 slaves in

825-817: The relationship between what would later be known as two Indo-European languages . Çelebi visited Crete and in book II describes the fall of Chania to the Sultan; in book VIII he recounts the Candia campaign . During his travels in the Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire Çelebi visited various regions of the modern-day Croatia including northern Dalmatia , parts of Slavonia , Međimurje and Banija . He recorded variety of historiographic and ethnographic sources. They included descriptions of first-hand encounters, third-party narrator witnesses, and invented elements. Çelebi traveled to Circassia as well, in 1640. He commented on

858-420: The river Lim . It is 5 km away from Uvac , a smaller river that is the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Priboj has an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfb ). The hamlet of Jarmovac south of Priboj is the site of a prehistoric copper mine shaft which is one of the first evidences of human metallurgy , first identified in 1937, now dated to the 4th millennium BCE in

891-476: The self-taught Palestinian scholar Stephan Hanna Stephan who worked for the Palestine Department of Antiquities . Significant are the many references to Palestine, or "Land of Palestine", and Evliya notes, "All chronicles call this country Palestine." Evliya reported that the sheriffs of Mecca promoted trade in the region by encouraging fairs from the wealthy merchants. Evliya went on to explain that

924-535: The surface like cream. Merchants wade into these pools and collect the oil in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions. Revenues from this oil trade are delivered annually directly to the Safavid Shah ." Evliya Çelebi remarked on the impact of Cossack raids from Azak upon the territories of the Crimean Khanate , destroying trade routes and severely depopulating

957-485: The ten volumes, An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi . Evliya is noted for having collected samples of the languages in each region he traveled in. There are some 30 Turkic dialects and languages cataloged in the Seyahatnâme . Çelebi notes the similarities between several words from the German and Persian , though he denies any common Indo-European heritage. The Seyahatnâme also contains

990-513: The territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith. He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatnâme ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God". Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya . Both his parents were attached to

1023-402: The town of Nova Varoš, the municipality includes the following settlements: The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018): Evliya %C3%87elebi Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( Ottoman Turkish : اوليا چلبى ), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through

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1056-462: The town's celebrated bridge , 28 meters long and 20 meters high. Çelebi wrote that it "is like a rainbow arch soaring up to the skies, extending from one cliff to the other. ...I, a poor and miserable slave of Allah, have passed through 16 countries, but I have never seen such a high bridge. It is thrown from rock to rock as high as the sky." Evliya Çelebi, who traveled around Anatolia and the Balkans in

1089-527: The women's beauty and talked about the absence of mosques and bazaars despite being a Muslim country. He talks about the hospitality of Circassians and mentions that he could not write the Circassian language using letters, and compared the language to a "magpie shout". Evliya Çelebi visited the town of Mostar , then in Ottoman Bosnia . He wrote that the name Mostar means "bridge-keeper", in reference to

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