Priboj

Priboj Прибој
Town and municipality
Clockwise, from top: Town panorama, Banja Monastery, River Lim near Pribojske Čelice
Coat of arms
Location of the municipality of Priboj within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°36′N 19°32′E / 43.600°N 19.533°E / 43.600; 19.533Coordinates: 43°36′N 19°32′E / 43.600°N 19.533°E / 43.600; 19.533
Country	Serbia
Region	Šumadija and Western Serbia
District	Zlatibor
Settlements	33
Government
• Mayor	Lazar Rvović
Area
• Municipality	553 km2 (214 sq mi)
Elevation	882 m (2,894 ft)
Highest elevation	1,500 m (4,900 ft)
Lowest elevation	392 m (1,286 ft)
Population (2011 census)
• Town	14,920
• Municipality	27,133
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	31330
Area code	+381(0)33
Car plates	PB
Website	www.priboj.rs

Priboj (Serbian Cyrillic: Прибој, pronounced [prǐːbɔj]) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of the western Serbia. The population of the town is 14,920, while the population of the municipality is 27,133.

During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valey of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Turkish invasion in the middle of 15th century. Between 1459 and 1463, the town of Priboj was first mentioned in written documents of the Ottoman Empire.

The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave (Sastavci village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality.

The town of Priboj lies on the river Lim. It is 5 km away from Uvac, a smaller river that is the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

According to the last official census done in 2011, the Municipality of Priboj has 27,133 inhabitants with 49.4% of the municipality’s population living in the urban areas.

In 1991, the population of the Priboj municipality numbered 35,951 people, and was composed of Serbs (67.26%), Muslims (30.39%) and others. Most of those who in 1991 census declared themselves as Muslims by nationality, in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks, while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by nationality.