Nord-Montenegro
Grahovo
A hundred and two people on a karst field seven kilometres long, and the ground where in 1858 Montenegro won the battle that made Europe draw its border.
- 102 innbyggere
- 720 moh.
- TIV lufthavn · 41 km
- Ninety houses on the field in Bolizza’s survey, 1614
Grahovo er en landsby som ligger i et bredt karstfelt mellom Nikšić og Adriaterhavskysten. Det har dypt historisk betydning som stedet for Grahovo-slaget i 1858, en avgjørende montenegrinsk seier over Det osmanske riket som sikret landets uavhengighet og territoriell ekspansjon mot havet.
Den komplette guiden
Grahovo: Montenegros historiske slagmark og karsthøydeland
Grahovo er et historisk bosettelse på et karsthøydeland i vestlig Montenegro, stedet for den avgjørende kampen i 1858 som sikret Montenegros uavhengighet.
Les hele guiden til GrahovoGrahovo i tall
- 102
- Innbyggere
- 720 m
- Høyde over havet
- 2,895 mm
- Nedbør
- 1864
- Kirker
- Grahovska
- Elven
2023 census — 185 at the 1961 peak, 120 in 2011
the floor of the polje runs 695–780 m, under Orjen’s 1,894 m
a year on the field, against 1,990 mm at Nikšić — Crkvice, 11 km south on the same massif, is the wettest inhabited place in Europe
the Church of the Holy Saviour at Grahovac, built on the ground where Husein-paša’s tent had stood
rises on the northern rim of the field and is dammed there for an irrigation reservoir
MONSTAT censuses by settlement (Republički zavod za statistiku 1948–2011; Popis 2023 settlement tables) · the field: Prof. Branko Radojičić in Enciklopedija Jugoslavije vol. 4 (1986), p. 545 · Nikšić rainfall: Hydrological and Meteorological Service of Montenegro, 1991–2020
De nærmeste stedene rundt Grahovo, plassert der de faktisk ligger – Bogetići ligger omtrent 25 km unna i luftlinje.
Klimaet i korte trekk
Beste reisetid: juni · juli · september
The district emptied; Grahovo did not
Population change by settlement, 1953 to 2003
Six of these seven villages lost more than half their people in fifty years, and Dolovi and Zagora lost more than four in five. Grahovo, the old municipal seat, finished the half-century three people up.
What is left of the old municipality
Residents by settlement, 2003 census
The key to Herzegovina
Whoever held Grahovo held the way into Herzegovina, which is why two battles were fought over a field of 6.4 square kilometres. Widths are to scale.
A day on the field
No rush hour: thirty-nine households and a road that goes two ways
- 07:00the field averages 2 °C in January and 23 °C in July — 6.5 km from the Bay of Risan and 700 m above it
- 11:00the government’s monument to the fallen of Grahovac stands 5 km north-west of the village, on the battle ground
- 15:00half the polje is ploughed and half is meadow, on ten metres of glacial fill; in a wet year it floods
- 20:00Orjen goes black to the west; the bay and its lights are 32 km down the Risan road
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Finn overnatting i Grahovo
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