Brusnik
Encyclopedia
Brusnik is a village situated in the Zaječar
municipality
(formerly in Negotin
municipality, as it is 37 km from Zaječar and just 21 km from Negotin, which is somewhat similar to the situation to that of their counterparts in Macedonia) of the Republic of Serbia.
Located roughly halfway between the end points of Prahovo
-Zaječar railway line, it is the sole major railway junction on it.
Like many other villages in Eastern Serbia, specifically the Timok
region, Brusnik has "pivnice"/"pimnice", a separate but attached set of temporary residences, aligned in streets and with shops, but not a school, post office or medical facilities (which remain only in the village itself), located 5 km away from the village proper and used for a month or so during the grape harvesting and wine making season.
Due to their exceptional quality, Brusnik wines were exported to the paramount centre of winemaking, France, as early as the mid-19th century, but today with a sharp decline in population and after the devastating effects of Josip Broz Tito
's socialism
, Slobodan Milosevic
's nationalism, and NATO's destruction of Serbia's infrastructure in 1999 over the Kosovo
dispute, Brusnik's wineries -- and economy overall -- is devastated (not unlike that in a greater part of Serbia's countryside).
Zajecar
Zaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
(formerly in Negotin
Negotin
Negotin is a town and municipality in the Bor District of north-eastern Central Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 16,716 while municipality has 36,879.-Name:The etymology of the...
municipality, as it is 37 km from Zaječar and just 21 km from Negotin, which is somewhat similar to the situation to that of their counterparts in Macedonia) of the Republic of Serbia.
Located roughly halfway between the end points of Prahovo
Prahovo
Prahovo is a village in the municipality of Negotin, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1506 people.The village is located on the Danube. Nearby sections of the river are crowded with German shipwrecks sunk in late 1944 to block passage to the Soviets....
-Zaječar railway line, it is the sole major railway junction on it.
Like many other villages in Eastern Serbia, specifically the Timok
Timok
-Places:*Timočka Krajina, a region in Serbia*Timok , a river in Serbia and Bulgaria**Beli Timok, a river in Serbia**Trgoviški Timok, a river in Serbia**Svrljiški Timok, a river in Serbia**Crni Timok, a river in Serbia-Other:...
region, Brusnik has "pivnice"/"pimnice", a separate but attached set of temporary residences, aligned in streets and with shops, but not a school, post office or medical facilities (which remain only in the village itself), located 5 km away from the village proper and used for a month or so during the grape harvesting and wine making season.
Due to their exceptional quality, Brusnik wines were exported to the paramount centre of winemaking, France, as early as the mid-19th century, but today with a sharp decline in population and after the devastating effects of Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
's socialism
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
, Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000...
's nationalism, and NATO's destruction of Serbia's infrastructure in 1999 over the Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
dispute, Brusnik's wineries -- and economy overall -- is devastated (not unlike that in a greater part of Serbia's countryside).