Official Name: | Kriva Reka (Brus) |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Serbia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Serbia |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Rasina District |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Brus |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 43.3667°N 72°W |
Kriva Reka (Serbian: Крива Река) is a village in the municipality of Brus, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 519 people.[1]
The village contains a built in 1618. In 1942, during the German occupation of Serbia, the German occupiers, in a punitive expedition, imprisoned a hundreds of local men, women and children in the church, after which they blew it up with the people still inside. Since 1979 it is under the protection of the Republic of Serbia, as a cultural monument of great importance.