Ten people live in the village Njegoš called a nest of heroes — the Ozrinići seat in the Katunska nahija, a third of the way along the road from Cetinje to Nikšić.
Čevo je selo smješteno na visokoj kraškoj zaravni između Cetinja i Nikšića. Na nadmorskoj visini od oko 900 metara, pruža prostran pogled na okolne planine. Ovaj kraj poznat je po surovom krečnjačkom pejzažu, oskudnoj vegetaciji i otpornim stočarskim tradicijama koje opstaju vjekovima.
Čevo u brojkama
2023 census, Čevo settlement — 424 people lived here in 1948
first record of the Ozrinići: a Ragusan complaint to Jelena Balšić of Zeta
the flat ground of Njegoš’s line, Čevo ravno — the road in crosses 935 m
Podgorica (TGD) by road — Cetinje is 23.5 km, Nikšić 43.6 km
MONSTAT, Popis 2023 settlement tables · en.wikipedia (Ozrinići tribe) · road distances measured on OpenStreetMap data, elevations from SRTM
Najbliža mjesta mjestu Čevo, na svojim stvarnim položajima — Ostrog je udaljeno oko 26 km vazdušnom linijom.
Najbolje vrijeme: april · maj · oktobar
Nekoliko sati
An hour in the country that produced a queen and an army general, and now holds ten people.
Cio dan
The Cetinje–Nikšić crossing is 65.7 km and about an hour and a quarter of driving, with Čevo at the middle of it.
Cetinje
Najbolje za 23.5 km down the road and the nearest town of any size — the old royal capital, 12,504 people at the 2023 census
Nikšić
Najbolje za 43.6 km the other way, at the far end of the same road — worth it if you are crossing rather than returning
The upland villages
Najbolje za Trešnjevo, Velestovo and Lastva hold 55 people between them at the 2023 census; ask locally rather than expecting to book anything
The nearest neighbours
Residents by settlement, 2023 census
Three of the Ozrinići’s own villages — Barjamovica, Markovina, Ožegovice — appear only as “z”: a figure withheld, not a zero. Tomići, where the Ottomans were stopped in 1756, is printed as empty.
How far Čevo is from everything
Road distance, kilometres
Cetinje and Nikšić are 65.7 km apart on this road, and Čevo sits 23.5 km along it — a third of the way, and within 2 km of the through route.
Čevo was the seat of the largest tribe of the Katunska nahija from the 16th century to the end of the 18th, and a captaincy seat again in 1910. Tomići, the village where the Ottoman column of 1756 was stopped, is printed in the 2023 census as empty. Widths are to scale.
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Čevo je na visokoj kraškoj zaravni oko 900 m, u srcu stare Crne Gore, između Cetinja i Nikšića. Putevi preko zaravni povezuju ta dva grada, a Čevo je otprilike na pola puta.
en.wikipedia (Ozrinići tribe; Vasilije Petrović; Đurađ Crnojević) · sr.wikipedia (Čevo; the February 1910 administrative law) · MONSTAT Popis 2023.
Istorijsko je središte Cuca, jednog od brdskih plemena ovog kraja. Plemensko društvo koje se oblikovalo na ovim zaravnima dalo je veliki dio ljudstva i mitologije crnogorskog dugog otpora osmanskoj vlasti.
Goli sivi krečnjak, vrtače i plitka polja, tanka zemlja mukotrpno skupljana u ograđene njive i gotovo nimalo površinske vode — sve otiče pravo kroz stijenu. Vidik ide desetinama kilometara, prema Lovćenu s jedne i planinama iznad Nikšića s druge strane.
Stočarski, i teško. Ovce i koze na kršu, kamene kuće s teškim pločastim krovovima i čatrnje za kišnicu jer bunara nema. Čevo je više puta bilo poprište i paljeno, i u Drugom svjetskom ratu, a spomenici to bilježe bez uljepšavanja.
Vožnja i tišina. Putevi po zaravni idu dugim dionicama bez ijednog vozila, kroz predio koji na ljetnjem svjetlu izgleda mjesečevo, a pod snijegom oštro. Pješači se slobodno i bez oznaka, pastirskim tragovima među vrtačama i napuštenim katunima.
Sadržaja je vrlo malo, pa gorivo, vodu i hranu riješite unaprijed. Od maja do oktobra je upotrebljiv period; zime donose obilan snijeg i puteve koji znaju ostati zatvoreni danima. Odgovara samodovoljnim putnicima s vlastitim prevozom.
Šematski prikaz. Položaji i udaljenosti mjereni su vazdušnom linijom, prema koordinatama koje imamo za svako mjesto; zbog planinskih puteva vožnja je duža. Podebljana linija označava obalu na dijelu koji prolazi kroz ovaj prikaz. Obala i Skadarsko jezero © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Ko posjećuje Crnu Goru
Udio noćenja stranih gostiju, 2025.
MONSTAT · 2025
Popis stanovništva, opština Čevo
From 444 people in 1953 to ten in 2023, with nobody under thirty recorded in the last census. Ten is also as low as MONSTAT will print: below that a settlement is masked, which is why 219 places in Montenegro carry no number at all.
U međuvremenu — 1847
Čevo, 4 May 1847: Milena Vukotić is born here, daughter of vojvoda Petar Vukotić. At thirteen she marries Prince Nikola I; in 1910 she becomes the only queen Montenegro has had, and she bears twelve children.
Vienna — Petar II Petrović-Njegoš has Gorski vijenac printed at the Mekhitarist monastery. In it the village gets the line Montenegrin school pupils still learn: Čevo ravno, gnijezdo junačko.
Edinburgh: on 4 November, James Young Simpson and his friends try chloroform on themselves.
Berlin — Siemens & Halske is founded on 1 October to build telegraphs.
“Čevo ravno, gnijezdo junačko — level Čevo, a nest of heroes.”
Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Gorski vijenac, 1847
The line is why a village of ten is known across Montenegro; several of the poem’s figures — vojvoda Draško Popović, serdar Vukota — are Ozrinići from Čevo (sr.wikipedia, Čevo).