Неке карактеристике порекла, миграционих и демографских процеса на Сјеничко-пештерској висоравни
Some Characteristics of the Origin, Migration and Demographic Processes at Sjenica-Pešter Plateau

Summary/Abstract: According to this paper it can be concluded that until the War of Candia, and in particular the Battle of Vienna or the Great Turkish War, the Sjenica-Pešter plateau population was mainly Serbian Orthodox with special separate groups such as Vlach shepherds. After the aforementioned wars, the religious denomination and somewhat ethnic structure changed. The existing Serbian population experienced a real exodus during the well-known migrations in 1690 and 1737. The Malisors from Montenegro and highlanders settled in the deserted Pešter and Sjenica valley. That was the beginning of the process of Islamization which was completed in the middle of the 19th century. Intense emigration of Orthodox and Muslim population took place during the 19th and 20th centuries. There were multiple causes of dynamic migrations even after the Great Migrations. The natural tendency of Dinaric highlanders to settle in flatter and tamer areas, agrarian overpopulation, wars, rebellions, uprisings, epidemics and religious and political reason were not negligible. Until the breakup of Yugoslavia, internal migrations were the largest and most dinamic, which along with a very low population growth led to depopulation and migration from villages in which only the elderly population remained.

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