Tomaševo

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Tomaševo (Montenegrin and Serbian Cyrillic: Томашево), previously known as Šahovići, is a village in the municipality of Bijelo Polje, Montenegro.

History

During the early 20th century, Šahovići was the administrative centre of the kaza of Kolašin. Demographic data compiled by Bulgarian foreign ministry in 1901-02 reported that Šahovići was populated by 25 Albanian households.{{harvnb|Bartl|1968|p=63}}

Šahovići was the site of the 1924 Šahovići massacre, in which around 600-900 local Muslims were massacred by Montenegrin peasants under the pretext that local outlaws murdered the chief of Kolašin county, Boško Bošković. These accusations later turned out to be untrue,{{cite book|last=Vulliamy|first=Ed|title=Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BI9pAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Simon & Schuster, Limited|isbn=978-0-671-71345-4|page=35|quote=A wave of violence was unleashed against Muslims in the early 1920s. Three thousand extrajudicial murders were chronicled in 1924 in eastern Herzegovina alone, 600 of them during the massacre of two villages, Sahovici and Pavino Polje.}} as after the events of the massacre, it emerged that the murderers of Bošković were clan members from Rovca, a rival tribe to his own.{{cite book |last1=Morrison |first1=Kenneth |title=Nationalism, Identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro |date=2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1474235198 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Js8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 |ref=Morrison}}

Demographics

According to the 2003 census, the village had a population of 282 people.Република Црна Гора, Завод за статистику: Попис становништва, домаћинстава и станова у 2003; (Подгорица, септембар 2005). The village was formerly known as Šahovići (Шаховићи), until 1952.

According to the 2011 census, its population was 243.{{cite web|title=Tabela N1. Stanovništvo prema nacinalnoj odnosno etničkoj pripadnosti po naseljima, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u Crnoj Gori 2011. godine|url=http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=536&pageid=322|publisher=Statistical Office of Montenegro|access-date=January 27, 2012|language=cnr}}

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| Montenegrins || 113 || 46.5%

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| Serbs || 112 || 46.1%

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| other/undeclared || 18 || 7.4%

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| Total || 243|| 100%

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References

Literature

{{cite book |last1=Bartl |first1=Peter |title=Die albanischen Muslime zur Zeit der nationalen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung (1878-1912) |date=1968 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOdrAAAAIAAJ}}

Category:Populated places in Bijelo Polje Municipality

Category:Serb communities in Montenegro