Prijepolje

Prijepolje stands where the Mileševka joins the Lim, among the mountains of western Serbia. The town grew as a market on the road from Dubrovnik into the Balkans, with a bridge carrying travellers across the Lim. Nearby, in the valley of the Mileševka, stands the monastery of Mileševa, founded by King Vladislav in the thirteenth century and celebrated for its medieval frescoes.

Dubrovnik records mention the market of Prijepolje in the fourteenth century; merchants from the Adriatic stopped here and caravans departed along the road towards Constantinople. Mileševa held the relics of Saint Sava, a revered figure of the Serbian Church, until 1594, when Sinan Pasha had them taken to Belgrade and burned. The monastery was also associated with the coronation of the Bosnian ruler Tvrtko as king in 1377. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travellers continued to describe Prijepolje and its crossing of the Lim.