| Native Name Lang: | sr |
| Official Name: | Priboj |
| Settlement Type: | Town and municipality |
| Coordinates: | 43.6°N 51°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Serbia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Šumadija and Western Serbia |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Zlatibor |
| Parts Type: | Settlements |
| Parts Style: | para |
| P1: | 33 |
| Leader Title: | Predsednik |
| Leader Name: | Lazar Rvović |
| Leader Party: | SNS |
| Area Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Area Blank1 Km2: | 6.07 |
| Area Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Area Blank2 Km2: | 553 |
| Elevation M: | 882 |
| Elevation Min M: | 392 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1500 |
| Population As Of: | 2022 census |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Population Blank1: | 13172 |
| Population Density Blank1 Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Population Blank2: | 23514 |
| Population Density Blank2 Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 31330 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | +381(0)33 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | PB |
Priboj (Serbian: Прибој, pronounced as /prǐːbɔj/) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town is 13,172, while the population of the municipality is 23,514.[1]
The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave (Međurječje village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality.
The town of Priboj lies on the river Lim. It is 5 km away from Uvac, a smaller river that is the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Priboj has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb).
The hamlet of Jarmovac south of Priboj is the site of a prehistoric copper mine shaft which is one of the first evidences of human metallurgy, first identified in 1937, now dated to the 4th millennium BCE in the late Vinča culture.[2]
During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valley of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Turkish invasion in the middle of 15th century. Between 1459 and 1463, the town of Priboj was first mentioned in written documents of the Ottoman Empire.[3]
Aside from the town of Priboj, the municipality includes the following settlements:
According to 2022 census, the municipality of Priboj has 23,514 inhabitants.[4]
In 1991, the population of the Priboj municipality numbered 35,951 people, and was composed of Serbs (67.26%), Muslims (30.39%) and others. Most of those who in 1991 census declared themselves as ethnic Muslims, in the next census in 2002 declared themselves as Bosniaks, while the smaller number of them still declare themselves as Muslims by ethnicity.
In 2022, the population of the town was 13,172, and was composed of Serbs (9,155), Bosniaks (2,153), ethnic Muslims (687) and others. As of 2022, most of Priboj's population is of Serbian ethnicity (71.9%), with nearly 21.5% being Bosniaks and Muslims.[5]
The ethnic composition of the municipality:[6]
| Census 1991 | Census 2011 | Census 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic group | Population | % | Population | % | Population | % | |
| Serbs | 23,421 | 65.2 | 20,582 | 75.9 | 16,909 | 71.9 | |
| Bosniaks | 10,927 | 30.4 | 3,811 | 14.1 | 4,144 | 17.6 | |
| Ethnic Muslims | 1,944 | 7.16 | 914 | 3.89 | |||
| Yugoslavs | 534 | 1.49 | 36 | 0.13 | 46 | 0.20 | |
| Hungarians | 16 | 0.04 | 11 | 0.04 | 4 | 0.02 | |
| Macedonians | 33 | 0.09 | 9 | 0.03 | 4 | 0.02 | |
| Others | 1,020 | 2.83 | 740 | 2.73 | 1,493 | 6.35 | |
| Total | 35,951 | 27,133 | 23,514 | ||||
Today, most of Priboj's economy is based on agriculture, services and partly industry. Priboj is home to the FAP Corporation, which pushed Priboj's development during the 1970s and 1980s, when it was one of the biggest producers of trucks and buses in the former Yugoslavia. Since the 1990s, FAP has been working in limited capacity and since the 2010s its only remaining production is military-oriented.
As of September 2017, Priboj has one of 14 free economic zones established in Serbia.[7]
The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[8]
| Activity | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 58 | |
| Mining and quarrying | 1 | |
| Manufacturing | 1,054 | |
| Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 90 | |
| Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 98 | |
| Construction | 183 | |
| Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 556 | |
| Transportation and storage | 271 | |
| Accommodation and food services | 187 | |
| Information and communication | 54 | |
| Financial and insurance activities | 44 | |
| Real estate activities | 21 | |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | 132 | |
| Administrative and support service activities | 51 | |
| Public administration and defense; compulsory social security | 350 | |
| Education | 388 | |
| Human health and social work activities | 454 | |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 91 | |
| Other service activities | 81 | |
| Individual agricultural workers | 6 | |
| Total | 4,171 |
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