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Sjeverin (Serbian Cyrillic: Сјеверин) is a village in the Raška (Sandžak) area of Serbia, located in the municipality of Priboj, in the district of Zlatibor, close to the border with Bosnia. In 2002 it had a population of 337, the majority Serbs.[1]

Sjeverin Сјеверин
Village
Sjeverin
Coordinates: 43°35′N 19°22′E
Country	Serbia
Elevation	447 m (1,467 ft)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

In October 1992, during the Bosnian war, 16 Bosniak residents of Sjeverin were abducted and murdered by Milan Lukić and members of the Serbian Osvetnici ("Avengers") paramilitary group in the Sjeverin massacre. 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.[2]

Population: 1948: 240 / 1953: 253 / 1961: 304 / 1971: 360 / 1981: 424 / 1991: 572 / 2002: 337[1]

Ethnic composition of the population (1981): Serbs: 169 (39,86%); Muslims: 231 (54,48%); Yugoslavs: 22 (5.19%); Unknown/Other:

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

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43°36′N 19°22′E

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[de] Sjeverin

Sjeverin (serbisch-kyrillisch Сјеверин) ist ein Ortsteil (mesna zajednica) der Opština Priboj im Westen Serbiens. Es liegt am linken Ufer des Lim, der hier die Grenze zu Bosnien und Herzegowina bildet. Auf asphaltierten Straßen ist der Ort von der nächsten serbischen Stadt Priboj aus nur über bosnisches Territorium zu erreichen.

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