Valjevo

Valjevo stands on the Kolubara River in western Serbia, where roads from Bosnia lead towards Belgrade. First recorded in 1393, it became a stopping place for merchants travelling across the region. Under Ottoman rule the town acquired mosques and a busy market. In 1804, the execution of Serbian leaders Aleksa Nenadović and Ilija Birčanin at the bridge over the Kolubara helped provoke the First Serbian Uprising, which soon spread through the surrounding country.