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  Manastirka Sljivovica | Super Import, LLC. USA | Exclusive Importer
Manastirka Sljivovica Old Plum Brandy is one of the most remarkable and finest plum brandies from Serbia and Montenegro.
Manastirka Sljivovica is a supremely perfected drink of rich flavor and heart warming bouquet, distinct and unique amongst the world's finest drinks.
Manastirka Sljivovica is made according to the traditional methods used for centuries in monasteries under the watchful eyes of gifted makers.
www.super-import.com /manastirka_sljivovica_p.htm   (387 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Some 200,000 Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia, nobody knows exactly, are dispersed across Serbia in collective centres, dispossessed, jobless and futureless, every one as much a victim of Milosevic's drive for a Greater Serbia as the Croats, Muslims and Albanians who bore the brunt of the military offensive.
The Sljivovica refugee camp, named after the Serbian plum brandy, is now home to some 180 Bosnian and Croatian Serbs who live crammed into four pre-fabricated structures in western Serbia, between the town of Uzice and Mount Zlatibor - barely ten kilometres from the summer residencies of the country's political and economic elite.
The Sljivovica camp was formerly home to 400 Muslims from Srebrenica, captured by Yugoslav military and police on the Bosnian border in July and August 1996.
www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991026_2_eng.txt   (872 words)

  
 iafrica.com | highlife | wine and spirits | spirits An elixir for all manner of ills
Highly alcoholic and distilled in backyard drums using home-grown fruit, Bosnian brandy, or sljivovica as it is generally known around here, is much more than a drink to warm the soul on a cold Balkan night.
"Sljivovica is considered good when it has around 42 percent alcohol content," said the brothers' neighbour, Slobodan Aleksic, 60.
They drink it for good health, for the good of their souls, when they're happy or sad, during childbirth, at funerals, to celebrate success and forget failure, before and after meals, with their first coffees of the morning, to ease stress during work, to relax after work, at night to aid sleep...
lifestyle.iafrica.com /wine/spirits/289553.htm   (769 words)

  
 Wine Making Plus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For centuries Europeans have made Brandy from fermented fruit juices.
Cognacs, Grapa, and Sljivovica are some of the most popular brandies being consumed.
Brandy is an alcoholic beverage, usually 40 % by vol., and is made by distilling wine.
www.winemakingplus.com /brandy.htm   (106 words)

  
 Service Civil International Camp Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sljivovica village is on famous mountain tourist resort Zlatibor, situated near National Park Tara Mountain and Mokra gora, where famous director Kusturica has his Ethno-village Mecavnik.
The Sljivovica summer camp aims to provide fun, education and safe environment for children to enjoy the period of school holidays.
The children are aged between 12 and 15 years old and the scheme is open to 50 children per one camp.
camps.sciint.org /show_camp.php?campid=6200   (282 words)

  
 Maraska Sljivovica Kosher 750ML - Wally's Wine and Spirits
Maraska Sljivovica Kosher 750ML - Wally's Wine and Spirits
Maraska Sljivovica or Slivovitz is the distinctive plum brandy of the Zadar area.
Its natural flavour and rich aroma is achieved through special fermentation, distillation and a long term ageing process in barrels made of the unique woods of the Zadar region.
www.wallywine.com /ps-31462-451-maraska-sljivovica-kosher-750ml.aspx   (129 words)

  
 Balkan Holidays :: Serbia - Destination for your holiday
Ajvar is a relish made of roasted red peppers, eggplant and garlic.
Typical Serbian beverages include thick, sweet Turkish coffee and plum brandy called sljivovica.
Musaka - layers of potatoes, minced meat and cheese.
www.balkanholidays.co.uk /countries/cntr_serbia.htm   (960 words)

  
 Committee on Conscience | Analysis | Biography
In July 1995, when Bosnian Serb forces overran the town, he escaped to Zepa, another “safe haven.” Due to harsh conditions there and fear of the town falling to Bosnian Serb forces, Elvir and some others decided to trek to Serbia, judging they would be treated as prisoners of war.
They were interred in a prison camp of Sljivovica and Mitrovo Polje, where he spent six months.
Released on January 17, 1996, he was immediately taken to Belgrade airport where he was told he would go to the United States.
www1.ushmm.org /conscience/analysis/bios.php?content=mujic_elvir   (206 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the head of the procession today were our guests, 23 students from Kragujevac, who came to Belgrade on foot, to support our protest.
They carried the feast bread, and a bottle of Sljivovica, in order to give it as a present and a token of good will to the president, which is a custom practiced on St. Nicolas' Day.
But, owing to the expiriance of their coleagues from Nis, they just left the present in front of the Presidency.
www.yurope.com /mirrors/protest96/pmf/dnews/streets/str1912.htm   (242 words)

  
 BosNet Digest V5 #30 / Jan. 19, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In a hilly and lonely camp nearby the village of Sljivovica, 8O km from Bosnian border and 5O km southeastern from Uzice and another secret camp in Serbia, Mitrovo Polje, there are 8OO detained Bosniacs.
As some of the detainees were maltreated and starved, ICRC mentioned in its internal report that "some abnormalities were observed".
Camp at Sljivovica is placed in the former railway hangars.
www.hri.org /news/agencies/bosnet/1996/96-01-19_1.bos.html   (1994 words)

  
 Srebrenica Numbers Game
One learns - again through isolated articles - that they too not only were not massacred, but that the Red Cross, the United Nations, and a host of "western" governments around the world all were well aware of this fact.
But some 800 others remain incarcerated in Sljivovica and at another camp near Mitrovo Polje, just three days before the agreed date for the release of all detainees under the Dayton peace agreement on Bosnia (...).
The Red Cross in Belgrade has been negotiating for several weeks to have the men released and given sanctuary in third countries.
members.tripod.com /kosovo99/srebreni3.htm   (1468 words)

  
 Christmas in Serbia
For breakfast the tradition is to prepare cicvara, which is a dish made of flour, eggs, butter, and cheese.
It is served with dry cakes, dry figs, and the famous plum brandy called Sljivovica.
Another custom is to prepare a bowl in which young wheat is planted to grow during the coming year.
www.cvc.org /christmas/serbia/index.htm   (767 words)

  
 egea forum - Activities - Regional EuroMed Congress April 25th-29th Kladovo, Serbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Well the truth is that one "Yugoslavian" has pattented sljivovica in Switzerland, instead in Belgrade.
But we all know that, althought it is wordl heritage, it is the national drink of Serbians.
Don't want to mingle in eternal discussions if sljivovica is Croatian or Serbian....
egea.geog.uu.nl /viewthread.php?tid=906&page=all   (2652 words)

  
 Get Well Soon Hacker! - Page 3 - Official Fighter Ops Forums
Whenever we went eating in a restaurant, or we had food delivered at the front gate, Cevapcici and mixed grill were my 2 favorites!!
Sljivovica goes before, just one glass :) for better apetite.......then all mentioned in previous posts
Sljivovica is good, no hangover at all !
www.fighterops.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3316&page=3   (438 words)

  
 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro)
As they moved through Banja Luka and along the Posavina corridor, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, towards the border, the ICRC provided food and first-aid at points set up along the roads.
From August on the ICRC conducted regular visits to over 750 men who had fled Zepa for the Federal Republic, and some 35 from Srebrenica, who were being held in refugee camps in Sljivovica and Mitrovo Polje, in order to monitor their situation and living conditions.
They were given material assistance and the opportunity to exchange Red Cross messages with their families.
www.icrc.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JMZB?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print   (735 words)

  
 Computers don't like baklava and where to find a very cute picture | Samizdata.net
But if there was no baklava crumbs and cigarette ash, I would not believe I was here.
Yes, I know I am rambling but I am slightly drunk on Stara Sljivovica and hopped up on endless tiny cups of nuclear strength Bosnian coffee.
Ok, the important information now: over on the wonderful blog Mind over what matters, there is a picture of Jay Zilber in bed.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/001339.html   (375 words)

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