Semberija

The Semberija (Cyrillic Семберија ) is a geographical region around the town of Bijeljina in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is bounded by the rivers Sava and Drina and the Majevica Mountains and is characterized by intensively farmed plains.

Name

Semberija is a landscape name for the area, which never made an administrative unit under this name and therefore rarely appears in written sources. About the origin of the name, there are several theories, but it should be the earliest in the 16th century, when many Vlachs settled in the region, and has Sebar to their social and economic situation as a whole or the location of a narrower group of serfs (or Sember ) among them.

Geography

The Semberija is a plain in the extreme north- eastern Bosnia, situated between the rivers Sava and Drina in the north to the east and to the west by the Majevica Mountains. It is part of the Pannonian Plain. The southern boundary is less clearly defined and is equated generally with the municipal boundary between Bijeljina and Zvornik. The region is now wholly to the Republika Srpska and is predominantly inhabited by Serbs.

Swell

• Postanak i znacenje Imena Semberija ( origin and meaning of the name Semberija ) Milenko S. Filipovic, 1967