Bor
district
It
is on the East of Serbia.It consists of:
-
Bor Municipality, town Bor
-
Kladovo Municipality, town Kladovo
-
Majdanpek Municipality, town Majdanpek
-
Negotin Municipality, town Negotin.
It
has population of 178.718 people. The seat of this district is Bor
which is well known by its historical and cultural inheritance.
Near Bor there are: Duke Alexandar’s palace from 1856, which was
built by the spirit of romantism, and Duke Milos’s Palace which is
settled down in Brestovac’s Spa from XIX century AD. This town is
well known as the seat of the biggest copper mine in Europe, which
is exploited since 1904, but it was also used during ancient period
of time.Bor
Municipality is characterized by: intensive economy activity based
on mining, metallurgy and chemistry (mining basain in Bor, copper
mine in Majdanpek, Industry of Chemical products in Prahovo),
production of electric energy (hydroelectric power station Djerdap I
and II), agricultural production and rich forest complexes,
beautiful tourist localities and archeological discoveries.
The
municipality Bor is located in the middle part of east Serbia.
Although is surrounded by high mountains (Stol 1156 m, Veliki Krš
1148 m i Crni Vrh 1043 m) this town has relatively small high (378
m). Coordinates are: 44° 25' north latitude and 22° 06' east
longitude, with continental clime. The average year temperature is
10, 2 °C.The municipality Bor spreads on 856 square kilometers, with
60 000 inhabitants. In this town structure there is 12 villages (Brestovac,
Zlot, Slatina, Krivelj, Donja Bela Reka, Metovnica, Šarbanovac,
Oštrelj, Gornjane, Bučje, Luka and Tanda).On this territory there is
over 400 kilometers of roads, from which is 300 kilometers with
asphalt. Bor is connected with main railway.
