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  Trebinje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trebinje (Serbian: Требиње/Trebinje, Bosnian: Trebinje/Требиње, Croatian: Trebinje) is the southern-most city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in southeastern Herzegovina at 42° 42′ 32″ N, 18° 19′ 18″ E.
Trebinje is also home to the small Catholic Cathedral of the Birth of Mary.
Trebinje is the seat of the Catholic Bishopric of Trebinje-Mrkan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trebinje   (230 words)

  
 TREBINJE - LoveToKnow Article on TREBINJE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Trebinje is built in a low-lying oasis among the desolate limestone mountains, close to the Dalmatian and Montenegrin frontiers.
Trebinje was built by the Slays, probably on the site of a Roman town laid waste by the Saracens in 840.
In 1483 it was captured by the Turks.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TREBINJE.htm   (149 words)

  
 Nenad Stefanovic: Putopis - Trebinje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Population of Trebinje and its surroundings did not care a lot about the bridge's destiny, but UNESCO was luckily involved, so that the bridge was removed to the new location stone by stone, under the hill of Crkvina, on which flat top is situated so called "Hercegovina's Gracanica" nowadays.
It is possible that Trebinje natives realized that some foreigners want to buy the bridge, and than decided to remove it somewhere further, it could be useful for something, when the intelligent people from such a far distance is interested to transport it stone by stone by planes to some Ontario's river banks...
Trebinje got its own pedestrian zone, "Knez Mihailova"'s, as we like to say, full of gardens and cafes, reaching its end by beautiful murmuring stone fountain which reminds to the old ancient times and pearls of Mediterranean stone architecture, with unpretending inscription of donator's name and year when it was built: year 2001...
home.drenik.net /nesha1/Trebinje/index_e.htm   (1592 words)

  
 Trebinje Region - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Trebinje Region is one of the seven regions of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Its administrative center is the town of Trebinje.
It comprises most of eastern Herzegovina and is located in the southeast of the country.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Trebinje_Region   (113 words)

  
 Trebinje - Wikipedia
Kroz Trebinje protiče rijeka ponornica Trebišnjica, čija je ukupna dužina 96,5 km.
Opština Trebinje je 1991 godine imala 30.996 stanovnika: 21.387 Srbi (69,2%), 5.542 Bošnjaci (17,9%), 1.625 Jugosloveni (5,3%), 1.226 Hrvati (3,9%) i 1.099 građana ostalih nacionalnosti (3,7%).
Trebinje je do 1992 bio privredno vrlo razvijen grad, čiji su nosioci bili metalna indrustrija (Industrija alata Trebinje), konfekcijska proizvodnja (Novoteks), lokalne prehrambene firme, kao i hidroelektrane na Trebišnjici.
bs.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trebinje   (378 words)

  
 Trebinje-Staro Trebinje (uvod)
Foto-kino klub "Trebinje" zeleci da da svoj prilog akciji prikupljanja i istrazivanja razglednica i fotografija starog Trebinja odlucio je da stampa ovu publikaciju.
Cilj ove publikacije je da inicira istrazivacki rad i naucni pristup obradi ove vrste materijala koji, za proucavanje istorije Trebinja pod austrougarskom vlascu, ima izvanredan znacaj.
Na fotografijama je prikazan i jedan od najznacajnijih dogadjaja za Trebinje tog doba- otvaranje zeljeznicke stanice 16.
thunder.prohosting.com /sama/Trebinje/uvod.htm   (495 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR : Transcript of Press Briefing, 8 May 2001
Work in Trebinje and Banja Luke should begin as soon as possible and this should all be done in co-operation with the citizens and authorities of the RS, the vast majority of whom would have been disgusted by the Banja Luka and Trebinje incidents.
Additionally, we call on the political leadership of the RS to conduct a thorough public information campaign to build support for the return and reconciliation processes, of which the reconstruction of religious facilities is an integral part.
If you look at Trebinje on Saturday clearly there were not enough police, at least between Saturday and Monday there was a clear effort by the local police to improve themselves, there were much more police on the ground.
www.nato.int /sfor/trans/2001/t010508a.htm   (6183 words)

  
 CNN.com - Serbs assault U.N. staff in Bosnia - May 5, 2001
No one was seriously hurt in the assaults in the southern town of Trebinje, on Saturday, but the ceremony had to be abandoned.
Trebinje, 120 kms (72 miles) south of the capital Sarajevo, is in a part of Bosnia's autonomous Serb republic dominated by ultra-nationalists.
Trebinje's Osman Pasa mosque was one of 618 destroyed during the war in what is now the Serb republic, according to figures given by Bosnia's Muslim community.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/05/bosnia.violence   (509 words)

  
 Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
The main focus of the Ambassador’s visit was education because the OSCE will, in cooperation with international and local organisations, with education experts, develop a new strategy for education including the legislative reform, monitoring of the situation in the field, initiating the building of institutional capacity on all the levels.
First of all, UNMIBH would like to commend the PSC Trebinje for their security arrangements on 8 June in Kljuc, Gacko municipality, when the first reconstructed mosque in the Trebinje area was inaugurated.
Although the police state that the involvement of juveniles in general crime in Trebinje area is low, UNMIBH notes with great concern that the involvement of juveniles in return-related incidents is particularly high.
www.ohr.int /print?content_id=9139   (1805 words)

  
 Kostunica Meets With Bosnian Leaders / Yugoslav president will cooperate with The Hague tribunal
Trebinje, Bosnia -- Vojislav Kostunica yesterday made the first visit to Sarajevo by a Yugoslav head of state since war broke out in Bosnia eight years ago, hastily starting a dialogue of peace to soften what many see as his support for Serb nationalism.
Kostunica had planned yesterday's journey to Trebinje, high in the mountains that divide Bosnia from Montenegro, as a personal and symbolic pilgrimage to honor Jovan Ducic, a Serb poet and diplomat born here and reburied with great pomp yesterday, 57 years after he died in the United States.
In Trebinje, as in many other places, the Muslims were expelled and their mosques destroyed.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/23/MN92522.DTL   (673 words)

  
 Tragac: trebinje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Trebinje is one of the most precious gems of Herzegovina.
Trebinje Trebinje is the southern-most city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lying on
Trebinje Region The Trebinje Region is one of the seven regions of Republika
www.tragac.com /trebinje.html   (112 words)

  
 Sonata - Trebinje - Mental Health Reform in F B&H
Modern psychiatric therapy and rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in outpatient facilities (associations, CMHCs, cooperatives, safe houses) gives the main role to occupational therapy, music, art therapy and other creative activities representing at the same time important methods and approaches to treatment.
In addition to opening the CMHC in Trebinje in October, we also started working on foundation and registration of the User Association "Sonata".
Inter alia, the plan includes working with parents (care givers), retraining and using of working potential of mental patients, as well as cooperation and exchange with other similar organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.
www.cmhr-bosnia.org /en/sonata.htm   (136 words)

  
 OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina - > Press & Public Information
Trebinje has been a pioneering town with respect to the establishment of local communities.
These councillors are required to be in constant contact with both the citizenry and the municipal authorities and ensure that the perspectives of all local communities are taken into account when decisions are made on the municipal level.
Before the local communities could be given their own financial resources by the municipality, the boundaries of the communities had to be drawn up and approved by the municipal assembly.
www.oscebih.org /public?d=6&article=show&id=914   (741 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR Informer: Spanish Marines in Trebinje
Trebinje - Major Andrés Gacio, Commanding Officer and his staff are supervising the platoon's tasks in the Operations Room.
At present, one is in Mostar for a training exercise with a Cavalry Squadron, a second at Gacko, in the French Battlegroup AOR (Area of Responsibility), training for further joint operations, and the third will be patrolling the border, near Montenegro".
This is the Spanish Camp at Trebinje, where the Battlegroup has a company-size detachment, to control the south-east corner of its AOR.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/105/s105p12a/t01012412a.htm   (359 words)

  
 SkyscraperCity Forums - Trebinje Town, Bosnia-Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
These days Trebinje is medium size town with ~50.000 population.
Trebinje is Serb Republic's southern city...but soon it will be Serbia's most southern city
trebinje is a realy historic, beautiful old town, but defnetly not the biggest tourist destination in rep. srpska...
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=127107   (793 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bajram) Celebrated in Trebinje for first time since 1993 "cleansing" of the town by RS forces and paramilitaries.
and the chairman of the municipal assembly of Trebinje, Nikola Sekulovic,
njegov zamjenik Nada Djuric i predsjednik Skupstine opstine Trebinje
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/trebinje/Eid%20al-AdhainTrebinje.htm   (588 words)

  
 Trebinje - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Trebinje (in Serbian Cyrillic: Требиње) is the southern-most city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in southeastern Herzegovina.
This Bosnia and Herzegovina geography article is a stub.
This page was last modified 07:27, 10 Jun 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Trebinje   (189 words)

  
 March 19, 1996 Vreme News Digest Agency No 232   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They had no way of knowing the exact number of refugees since many were wandering around town looking for a place to stay and registering for aid afterwards.
Trebinje Mayor Bozidar Vucurevic, his opposition says, was one of the fiercest opponents of moving the factories to Trebinje and none of the machines came into the town.
Vucurevic said some 5,500 Moslems moved out of Trebinje along with several hundred Croats, but he could not specify the number of houses and apartments they left.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/232/t232-6.htm   (1042 words)

  
 OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina - > Mission general
Economic development in the area is now largely stagnant, partly due to its relative isolation and the lack of cross-border economic co-operation with neighbouring Montenegro and Croatia.
Trebinje Municipality, with the assistance of the OSCE, is involving citizens more directly in the management of local affairs via the development of local community structures.
The OSCE is also facilitating the work of three main working groups (based in Mostar, Siroki Brijeg and Trebinje) established to ensure the smoother implementation of the new Criminal Procedure Code.
www.oscebih.org /overview/mostar.asp   (1344 words)

  
 Summary
By his final return to Trebinje he has opened many eyes and thousands sights were focused on the town where he was born.
t the moment of entering Trebinje, the escort with Ducic's remains was met in Gorica by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle, with Bishops, priests, many officials of Republic of Srpska and numerous people.
Beside the glorious parts of his work he gave to Trebinje many other things: a park, a monument dedicated to Njegos and liberators and martyrs of Herzegovina, fountains, mosaics, a big library, an art collection...
www.istocnik.com /articles/49/summary.html   (2029 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
For instance, in Trebinje a mosque was destroyed, and I know that the then Bishop Atanasije was outraged and shocked.
For instance, as I have just said, the mosque in Trebinje is being rebuilt, but the Muslims are returning only very slowly, which is a painful fact.
For instance, there were some 10 mosques in and around Trebinje, and they were all destroyed.
www.rferl.org /reports/southslavic/2004/07/23-150704.asp   (1320 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Kostunica in Trebinje
Trebinje, October 22 (Tanjug) - Dedication of newly built Church of Holy Annunciation - Herzegovina Gracanica in which the remains of great poet Jovan Ducic will be put has began in Trebinje this morning.
President of Yugoslavia Vojislav Kostunica who has arrived in Trebinje this morning participates in the ceremony.
Vice president of Republika Srpska (RS) Mirko Sarobvic, Serbian member of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zivko Radisic, President of RS Petar Djokic and Prime Minister Milorad Dodik received the president of FRY.
www.serbia-info.com /news/2000-10/22/20965.html   (103 words)

  
 Red Cross Red Crescent - News
Home care workers from the local Red Cross in Trebinje recently discovered many lonely families in the area in need of basic assistance.
We are accompanying Red Cross home care supervisor, Slavica Kijac, on a trip in the Trebinje area.
Slavica is a nurse and covers the Trebinje and Ljubinje areas, carrying out regular visits.
www.ifrc.org /docs/news/00/082901   (777 words)

  
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Some of the Serbs have headed for Trebinje, a traditional stronghold of Serbian nationalists in eastern Herzegovina.
A key problem in accommodating the newcomers seems to be the many possessions they took with them, for which storage space is at a premium.
The mayor of Trebinje said that the town is short of medicine and food, while the UNHCR estimates that the supply may last for only another 20 days.
www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/96-03/mar12a.omri   (4122 words)

  
 AIM News
Kostunica travels to Trebinje on Sunday for the interment of the remains of the great Serbian poet, Jovan Ducic, who died 57 years ago in the United States and whose body has been brought home pursuant to his last will and testament.
His Beatitude Serbian Patriarch Pavle, and many Serbian poets were also in Trebinje for this occasion.
This fulfilled poet's last wish stated 57 years ago to be entombed on some of the hills surrounding Trebinje.
www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=292   (1922 words)

  
 To Say Nothing is to Approve
UN officials and European ambassadors to BandH issued stern warnings, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs a statement condemning the organizers of riots in Trebinje and Banja Luka.
During both of these visits to RS - interestingly to the very towns of Trebinje and Banja Luka - the Yugoslav president was met with ovations and welcomed as the "leader of the entire Serb nation".
True, at the time, there was no singing of songs heard during the recent incidents, but even then messages such as "This is Serbia!" could be heard, failing to bother anyone.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2001/nothing.html   (549 words)

  
 Kostunica to visit Sarajevo on Sunday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The visit follows controversy over Kostunica´s intention to attend the reburial of a Serb poet on Sunday morning in the Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje, which Bosnian officials said was a violation of diplomatic protocol.
Kostunica told Petritsch and Prlic on Friday that his visit to Trebinje was purely private, and he did not want to make a political issue of a cultural and religious affair.
The visit to Trebinje has also caused controversy within the Serb republic, where Western-backed Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has accused a hardline nationalist party of making political capital out of it before general elections on November 11.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/oct00/hed977.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Axis History Factbook: 14. Infantry Regiment (Croatia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
in Trebinje was ordered to take up security positions under Italian command against resistance outbreaks in that area.
was defeated by several Partisan companies and detachments near the village of Mosko on the road between Trebinje and Bileća while in march to relieve the Bileća garrison, losing a howitzer, two mortars, 25 heavy and light machine guns and around 200 rifles.
in the village of Begović-Kula and forced to withdraw to the garrison in Trebinje.
www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=6252   (517 words)

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