Sjeverin, in Serbian Cyrillic Сјеверин, is a village in the Sandžak (Raška)

Sandžak

Sandžak also known as Raška is a historical region lying along the border between Serbia and Montenegro...

 area of Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, located in the municipality of Priboj

Priboj

Priboj is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of Serbia at 43.59° North, 19.54° East. In 2011, the town has a total population of 14,015, while population of the municipality is 27,127.- History :...

, in the district of Zlatibor

Zlatibor

Zlatibor is a mountain region situated in the western part of Serbia, a part of the Dinaric Alps.The mountain range spreads over an area of 300 km², 27 miles in length, southeast to northwest, and up to 23 miles in width. The highest peak is Tornik at 1496 m...

, close to the border with Bosnia. In 2002 it had a population of 337, the majority Serbs.

In October 1992, during the Bosnian war, 16 Bosniak residents of Sjeverin were abducted and murdered by Milan Lukić

Milan Lukic

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 and members of the Serbian Osvetnici

White Eagles (paramilitary)

The White Eagles , also known as the Avengers , were a Serbian paramilitary group associated with the Serbian National Renewal and the Serbian Radical Party...

 ("Avengers") paramilitary group in the Sjeverin massacre

Sjeverin massacre

The Sjeverin massacre was the massacre on 22 October 1992 of 16 Bosniak citizens of Serbia from the village of Sjeverin abducted from a Serbian bus in the village of Mioče, on Bosnian territory. The abductees were taken to the Vilina Vlas hotel in Višegrad where they were tortured before being...

. Following the massacre other Bosniaks fled the area. In 2006 the Sandžak Committee for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms reported that the state was not working to facilitate the return of the population displaced by ethnic cleansing.

Location

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: 43° 35′ 24″ North, 19° 22′ 44″ East / 43.5900, 19.3789

Altitude

Altitude

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: 447 m

Population:
1948: 240 / 1953: 253 / 1961: 304 / 1971: 360 / 1981: 424 / 1991: 572 / 2002: 337

Ethnic composition of the population (2002):
Serbs: 244 (72.40%); Bosniaks: 63 (18.69%); Muslims: 25 (7.41%); Montenegrins: 1 (0.29%); Unknown/Other: