Petnjica

Petnjica Петњица
Town
Coat of arms
Petnjica
Coordinates: 42°54′32″N 19°57′52″E / 42.90889°N 19.96444°E
Country	Montenegro
Municipality	Petnjica
Elevation	851 m (2,792 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	565
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	PT

Petnjica (Петњица) is a town in northern Montenegro, and center of Petnjica Municipality. In 2011, the population of Petnjica was 565, while the municipality population was 5,665. Petnjica regained municipality status on May 28, 2013, which it previously had from 1945 to 1957, when it was merged with the Berane Municipality. The municipality's inhabitants identify as Bosniaks by majority, the rest mostly as Muslims. It is a center of the Bihor region.

Notable people

• Osman Rastoder, commander of Sandžak Muslim militia
• Rifat Rastoder, former Deputy Speaker of the Montenegrin Parliament
• Šerbo Rastoder, historian
• Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal who served as the President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War and sought the direct unification of that entity with Serbia.

External links

• FC Petnjica