Kosjerić
Kosjerić (Косјерић) is a town and municipality in Western
Serbia. Municipality has 15,000 inhabitants, but the town itself has 5,000. Municipality has 359 square kilometers with 26 villages mostly placed in the river valleys, but there are also some settlements on the mountain highs on more than 1000 meters.
The town itself has very good geographic location; it is situated on the way between
Vojvodina and
Belgrade on one side and
Adriatic Sea on the other. The town is near famous mountain tourist centers:
Divčibare and
Zlatibor.
It hard to estimate exact time of the foundation of the town. Near the town archeologists found
Roman and Serbian
medieval relicts, but it is believed that mass immigration became before
Serbian Revolution at the beginning of nineteen century with people from
Montenegro, East
Bosnia and Western Serbians mountains Zlatibor and
Tara. A legend says that the first inhabitants were
Antonije Kosijer and his sons from the village
Kosijer in Montenegro and
Jovan Baranin and his sister with her seven sons from the village
Bare in Montenegro.
Fastest development began at
1882, but it was suppressed by the faster growing communities of nearby bigger towns,
Valjevo and
Požega. Kosjerić reached the status of the town in
1966 and economic development after finishing of the
Belgrade-Bar railway in
1972.
Today Kosjerić is the town with the highest economic standard in Western Serbia. It has a cement factory that is one of the most successful companies in Serbia. After the fall of socialism Kosjerić soon became the town with the highest part of private capital in whole country.
Kosjerić is known together with other places in its surroundings from the producing of raspberries, fresh air and beautiful nature. The town is surrounded by high mountains, fields, wood and water wells and it is famous for country tourism and producing of healthy food. Fresh air and nice climate are very appropriate for different sports, hence Kosjerić became the famous sport center equipped with different types of sport fields on 40,000 square metres, sport hall with 700 places, olympic pool and several football, basketball and handball playgrounds.
K-Town Kosjerić Citizens Community
