Bor (Serbian Cyrillic: Бор) is a copper mining town located in Serbia and Montenegro, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... Car number plates in the former Yugoslavia showed the place where the car carrying them was registered, in the form of a two letter code. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to some dispute as to Europes actual borders. ... Bor District is a district (okrug) of Serbia with seat in Bor. ...

Geography

Bor is a very nicely built city in an area called the Timočka Krajina (The Timok Frontier). It is surrounded by many beautiful places such as Banjsko Polje, spa Brestovačka Banja, lake Borsko Jezero, and mountain Stol, and it is very close to the mountain Crni Vrh. Just outside of Bor lies another beautiful village by the name of Brestovac. Map of the Timočka Krajina within Central Serbia Timočka Krajina (Serbian: Timočka Krajina or Тимочка Крајина, Vlach/Romanian: Valea Timocului or Timoc) is a geographical region located in Serbia and Montenegro. ... Črni Vrh Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Slovenia There are also various other places in the other countries formerly in Yugoslavia that are known as Crni Vrh (no accent on the C). The meaning is black peak. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...

Municipality

Bor municipality includes the town of Bor and the following villages:

• Brestovac
• Bučje
• Gornjane
• Donja Bela Reka
• Zlot
• Krivelj
• Luka
• Metovnica
• Oštrelj
• Slatina
• Tanda
• Topla
• Šarbanovac

Population

In the 1991 census, Bor municipality had 59,900 residents, the absolute majority declaring themselves as Serbs. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the 2002 census, the population of the Bor municipality numbered 55,817 residents, and was composed of: For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

• Serbs = 39,989 (71.64%)
• Vlachs = 10,064 (18.03%)
• Roma = 1,259 (2.26%)
• others.

The number of residents has dropped since air pollution has caused many people to leave the city. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Vlach folk dance from Timočka Krajina Vlachs (Vlach/Romanian: Vlahi, Serbian: Власи or Vlasi) are an ethnic group of Serbia, culturally and lingustically cognate to Romanians. ... The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), often referred to as Gypsies, are a heterogeneous ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Latin America, southern states of North America and the Middle East. ... This power plant in New Mexico releases sulfur dioxide and particulate matter into the air. ...

According to the 2002 census, the settlements in the Bor municipality with Serb ethnic majority are: Bor, Brestovac, Donja Bela Reka, and Oštrelj. The settlements with Vlach ethnic majority are: Bučje, Gornjane, Krivelj, Luka, Metovnica, Tanda, Topla, and Šarbanovac. Ethnically mixed settlements are: Zlot (with relative Serb majority) and Slatina (with relative Vlach majority).

Economy

Since the mid-1990s and during the time of sanctions on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, production in this mine dropped significantly from the very prosperous 1970s and 1980s. This has been due to both diminishing reserves and the inability to obtain new equipment that would most efficiently gather the remaining ore no longer of high grade. Copper mining is the key basis of Bor's economy and the effects of decreased production can be seen all over the town. The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Official language Serbian written in Cyrillic alphabet1 Capital Belgrade2 President3 Svetozar Marović Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 105th 102,350 km² 0. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

External links

• Bor 030 - Web Site of the Bor city
• Timočka Krajina