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| Bijelo Polje (White Field) is situated in the North-Eastern part of Montenegro and on the banks of Lim and Ljesnica. The highway Belgrade-Podgorica-Montenegrin Riviera passes through the town. Five kilometres upstream the Lim, there is a crossroad in the place of Ribarevine – one road comes from Berane and Kosovo, the other from Podgorica and third from the direction of Bijelo Polje and Serbia. The town preserved the architectural characteristics from passed eras, houses, mosques and churches. The archaeology findings confirmed that there was a settlement on the place of contemporary Bijelo Polje during the stone and bronze ages. The remnants of the Roman culture of 2 nd and 3 rd centuries were found as well. The Duke of Hum Miroslav, brother of Nemanja, erected in 1199 in Nikoljce a church of St. Peter, where the famous artist of that age Grigorije Dijak (Gregory Diak) wrote even more famous “The Gospel of Miroslav”. The book was written in Cyrillic letters on the parchment and decorated by initial symbols and miniature drawings. This gospel is considered to be one of the first Cyrillic manuscripts in the countries of South Slavs. |
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