Bor, Serbia

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Бор
Bor
Location in Serbia

General Information
District	Bor
Land area	856 km²
Population (2002 census)	39,387 (town) 55,817 (municipality)
Settlements	14
Coordinates	44°05′N 22°06′E
Area code	+381 30
Car plates	BO
Postal code	19210
Time zone	CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2)

Politics
Mayor	Branislav Rankić (SRS)

Bor (Serbian Cyrillic: Бор) is a town located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Municipality
4 Population
5 Economy
6 Trivia
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Geography

Bor is in a region called the Timočka Krajina (the Timok Frontier). It is surrounded by many beautiful places such as Banjsko Polje, the spa-town Brestovačka Banja, the lake Borsko Jezero, and the mountain Stol, and it is very close to the mountain Crni Vrh. Just outside of Bor lies another beautiful village by the name of Brestovac.

[edit] History

Throughout the Middle Ages the area around Bor was constantly part of the Bulgarian Empire to its very end in the late 14th and the early 15th century.

[edit] Municipality

Bor municipality includes the town of Bor and the following villages:

Brestovac
Bučje
Gornjane
Donja Bela Reka
Zlot
Krivelj
Luka
Metovnica
Oštrelj
Slatina
Tanda
Topla
Šarbanovac

[edit] Population

In the 1991 census, Bor municipality had 59,900 residents.

In the 2002 census, the population of the Bor municipality numbered 55,817 residents, and was composed of:

Serbs = 39,989 (71.64%)
Vlachs = 10,064 (18.03%)
Roma = 1,259 (2.26%)
others.

The number of residents has dropped since air pollution has caused many people to leave the city. According to the 2002 census, the settlements in the Bor municipality with Serb ethnic majority are: Bor, Brestovac, Donja Bela Reka, and Oštrelj. The settlements with Vlach ethnic majority are: Bučje, Gornjane, Krivelj, Luka, Metovnica, Tanda, Topla, and Šarbanovac. Ethnically mixed settlements are: Zlot (with relative Serb majority) and Slatina (with relative Vlach majority).

[edit] Economy

Since the mid-1990s and during the time of sanctions on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, production in this mine dropped significantly from the very prosperous 1970s and 1980s. This has been due to both diminishing reserves and the inability to obtain new equipment that would most efficiently gather the remaining ore no longer of high grade. Copper mining is the key basis of Bor's economy and the effects of decreased production can be seen all over the town.

[edit] Trivia

The municipality of Bor still (as of November 2006) does not have an official website. The new municipal government from Serbian Radical Party publicly announced its creation in September 2006 at address http://www.opstinabor.com, but they forgot an important thing—to register it. That fact was employed by a skilled opponent, who registered the site first and put an insulting comment to the municipal government at its front page. The site contents were subsequently replaced with more elaborate critics, but the prank was retold by the citizens and even attracted some coverage in Serbian media. ^[1]