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Hajla, Zljeb, Mokra gora, Krsatc and Turjak are the mountains that
surround Rozaje, located in the valley divided by the river Ibar.
This is the most wooded part of the Balkans in far northeast part of
Montenegro. “The sea of woods”, was noted by an excited author
surprised by the vast areas of the Rozaje’s conifers. The little
town, situated at approximately 1000 meters heighth above sea level,
was erected on the place where roads leading from the Lim to Ibar
valley intersected and from there these roads were led towards
Kosovo on the east and towards Serbia on the north, towards the Zeta
and the Scadar valley and towards the warm Adriatic sea on the
south. That is why Rozaje has always been the place for rest for
numerous trade caravans and different historical migrations.
Rozaje today, according to the Turkish historian Hamer, was
established by Duce-pasa in 1683. Around his fortress a town
developed inhabited by well-off agas, shopkeepers, craftsmen and
hired coachmen. The largest treasure was acquired by cattle breeding
and trade, and later by the increasingly developing lumber
processing industry.
Guests can stay in one of two hotels, in the very center of town “Rozaje”
with about a hundred beds, and the hotel “Turjak”
with 230 beds, camp, hunting lodge and the system of cable railways
on the ski-paths. It was built in the ambient of the mountain with
the same name Turjak, with a highway leading across it.
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