Novi Pazar

Kočan Nadžib Museum „Ras” Novi Pazar The Village Vrsevo -The Review of the Village Past Abstract: The village Vrsevo is located north-east from the middle age town of Bihor. Under the same name, together with the village Azane, it makes a local community and in its territory, it belongs to the municipality of Petnjica. The remains of the material culture speak the best in the held on the old time of the village. Besides them, significant data gives other written document either, and primarily, lists of the Turkish administration, performed for different purposes. The lists were made in the entire area of the Ottoman Empire, thus in the territory of Bihor, which its consistent part was, the present village of Vrsevo. Based on them, it can be seen for the village to be economically very strong and the basic activities of its population were agriculture and cattle breeding. Emigrations and arrival from these areas made their own and they brought to the change in ethnic structure of its population, thus now, in the village the majority of its population is of Islamic religion. According to the list of population from 2011, Vrsevo had 65 households and 352 inhabitants. Key words: Vrsevo, village, Bihor, list, tax, household, population

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