Ub (Serbian Cyrillic: Уб) is a town and municipality
located in the Kolubara District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town
is 6,164, while population of the municipality is 29,022. The
first communities were established at the municipal territory of Ub, according
to the historical traces and traces of human civilization discovered in the
current settlements of Trlić, Kalinovac, Brgule, originated from the time of
Vinča culture, in the period around 5000 BC. In the settlement of Čučuge today
there are traces of the Bronze Age.The most probable theory of the origin of
the name is from the Latin word "urb", meaning "city".
According to legends, the place was built in the reign of Prince Kocelj, and it
was named after his brother Slavoljub. Over time, the names shortened to just
"Ub".The most important of the cultural and historical monuments of
Ub is certainly the church - monastery in the village Dokmir, dating from the
fifteenth century. Research suggests that the monastery was restored in 1415,
so it is thought that the monastery dates from an earlier period. Also
affiliated with the monastery are the nuns of the monastery Žitomislići in Herzegovina,
who had fled from the horrors of war in Bosnia in early '90s.The Tamnava area
has preserved evidences of earlier styles and ways of life. In the mountain
areas were fortresses, monasteries, churches and towers, and it is often
difficult to reach such areas, but in the plains, monuments and buildings were
often removed, leaving little trace, barely sufficient to preserve some features
of the old life. [1]
The river Ub is smaller than the river Tamnava. Its
stream is located eastwards from the Vlasic’s top of mountain Beleg, on the
same side as Tamnava. Ub’s valley is narrow, surrounded by heavy rocks and
steep banks, spreading itself until the village of Gola Glava, and when it overruns
the river Jautina, its valley begins to spread. In front of the village Radusa, the river Ub passes through the
gorge, where the valley’s widening is
again in progress. Its right bank is made of calcareous rocks, capes, grains of
sand, and steeps, until the confluence with the river Tamnava. [2]
In the municipality of Ub, there are 37 villages of different position, and
mostly agricultural. In the villages in the upper basin of the river, people
grow fruits, and in the lower river basin they grow cattle.
Houses
It is hard to tell how the original houses looked
like, it is assumed that they were made of mud, planks, and ‘‘čatma’’, which is
a Turkish word for wooden house, something like a hut house.The legend
says that the houses were dug up into
the ground, or bolstered by the sides of certain hills. These houses were constructed
of wood and soil, while the existence of plaster and gypsum was unknown to
village people. The roofs of these houses were steep, made of wood, in pyramidal
or conical shape, and without chimneys. Hearthstones were placed on the soil,
nothing else was added.The names for these types of houses have been preserved
as : prizemnice,zemunice, and udzerice,
the Turkish words for these types of houses. [3]
The first theatre in Ub
One of the oldest culture representations is Cultural-Artistic organisation, the theatre ‘’Tamnavac’’. This is, besides others (for example.‘’Jedinstvo’’), the unique institution of our city that serves its purpose. Dilemma existed for a long time, because no exact data could have been found when an Amateur theatre was founded in our city. But, thanks to the persistence of Mr Zdravko Rankovic, the well-known journalist and culture explorer in this town, the precious data confirmed that the Amateur theatre was founded in far 1873.[4] (Revija ‘’Kolubara’’,mart 1997.)
The first lyceum in Ub
On the Board’s plenary session of the city Ub, on 25
August, 1923 an important decision was made concerning the educational progress
of this area. Chairman made a suggestion to the Board on making its decision to
take necessary actions for opening a lyceum of two grades in the local town. The Ministry of Education sent inspector
Jovan Kangrga to inspect the building and furniture, where the lyceum was
located, and he filed the report on September 18 in 1923. ‘’Taken into account that the city Ub is a
centre of a big and rich area, that is cut
from larger towns due to bad communications, where you can
find high schools , and it is also
located very far from them, I think that the two-grade lyceum should be opened
temporally, until the Municipality builds a separate edifice for this school.
On the day 21 October 1923, the opening ceremony of
the lyceum had been performed, and students attended the lyceum the next day.
The lyceum’s official name was: ‘’Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata I Slovenaca PRIVATNA
GIMNAZIJA Varosice Uba’’. [5]
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