Bijelo Polje

Bijelo Polje is a town in the Northern Region of Montenegro, set along the Lim River. Its name means white field in Serbo-Croatian. The town is the administrative, economic, cultural and educational centre of northern Montenegro and the centre of the wider Bijelo Polje Municipality. At the 2011 census the town itself had an urban population of 12,900. Its Church of Saints Peter and Paul is the place where the Gospel of Miroslav, associated with Miroslav, a brother of the Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja, was written. During the Second World War the town was a prominent location for the anti-fascist resistance movement in Yugoslavia, and in Montenegro in particular.