The Bosniak Party and the Mejlis of the Islamic Community in Pljevlje withdrew the request, submitted in November last year, which requested that a street or the main square in Pljevlje be named after Husein Pasha Boljanić.
They decided to take this step after the Council for Naming Streets and Squares recently accepted the proposal of the Board of the Islamic Community in Pljevlja and the Bosniak Party and suggested that part of Vuk Knežević Street in the city center be renamed Husein-paša Boljanić Street, which, according to the proponents, it is not in accordance with their request.
"Regarding your proposal to name the part of Vuk Knežević Street from the Clock Tower to the intersection with Glasinačka Street after Husein Pasha Boljanić, we are of the opinion that the said proposal is not in accordance with our request and does not justify expectations and does not adequately bear the weight of life and work of this great man from Pljevlja, and we demand that the proposal in question be withdrawn until, in agreement with the representatives of the Majlis of the Islamic Community in Pljevlja, we determine another appropriate solution, that is, until we submit to you a proposal for other streets, which would justifiably bear the name of Husein Pasha Boljanić. Therefore, with respect for your conscientious neighborly relationship and advocacy for the correction of the injustice against the great Husein Pasha Boljanić, we ask that the established proposal be withdrawn until another adequate solution is found", states the response of the OO Bosniak Party, Council for Granting Settlements, Streets and Squares .
The council, whose president is the councilor of Nova Bozidar Jelovac, accepted the request in mid-April and suggested that a part of Vuk Knežević Street, in front of the entrance to the mosque of the same name, be named after Husein pasha Boljanić.
Husein Paša Boljanić was born in the village of Boljanići in Pljevlja. In the second half of the 16th century, he held important state and military positions in the Ottoman Empire. Among other things, he was the sandjakbeg of the Bosnian and Herzegovina sandjak, and he received the title of pasha as the governor of Egypt (Misir). Thanks to this, he acquired great wealth over time. Like many other prominent figures of the Ottoman Empire, Husein Pasha also bequeathed part of his material and financial resources (endowment) for general useful purposes in his native region. With his money in Pljevlje, a mosque was built in the center of Pljevlje, and in addition to it, a caravanserai, a madrasa, an inn, and a public kitchen were built. He bequeathed all the buildings and put them to be used by the inhabitants of what was then Tasliža, and today's Pljevlje.
Explaining the reasons why they accepted the proposal, Jelovac previously told "Vijesta" that in these stormy times we need to look for good examples from the past, and build the present and the future on that.
"There is a specific part of the population in Pljevlja, namely the Muslim and Bosniak community members who perceive Husein Pasha as their representative, and since we have such a situation and we live together, we believe that these people should respect each other and we have nothing against one street it bears the name of Husein Pasha Boljanić, a man who joined the Truro army in the 16th century by force or grace and became a representative of that same army that came to these areas by force. The Islamic people of Pljevlja respect Husein Pasha Boljanić also because he left an important endowment to Husein Pasha's mosque. On the other hand, there is an assertion that during the Turkish slavery, the monastery of the Holy Trinity was also preserved thanks to the name of Husein Pasha Boljanić. After the great migration of Serbs under the leadership of the patriarch Arsenij Čarnojević when the Turkish authorities attacked the Orthodox Serbs, from Sarajevo to Kosovo, all the monasteries were destroyed by the Turkish army (Mileševa Banja near Priboj, Dbrun, Davidovica, Kumanica and many others), and the only one that remained preserved was the monastery of the Holy Trinity. The Orthodox Serbs paid it back in 1912, when the army of the Kingdom of Serbia entered and liberated Pljevlja on October 27, 1912. "Hussein Pasha's mosque and all other mosques in Pljevlje have been preserved," Jelovac said.
He pointed out that the current parliamentary majority in Pljevlja has no intention of denying anyone their rights.
He reminded that this proposal arrived in the Assembly in 201.6 and that the then majority of the Assembly never considered it.
They don't see the need for Tito Street
At the same session when the request of the BS and Majlis of the Islamic Community was accepted, the Council rejected the proposal of the NOR Fighters Organization to name a street in Pljevlja after Marshal Tito.
"We refused because the main street in Pljevlja used to have that name. In the meantime, it has been abolished and we see no need to name a street in Pljevlja again after Marshal Tito," Jelovac said.
In 2016, the municipal committee of the Social Democratic Party of Pljevlja launched an initiative to return the former name of Marshal Tito to the main street in Pljevlja, instead of the current name of King Peter I. This party also organized an action to collect signatures of a petition to restore the former name of the main street, but the initiative was never implemented. was not on the agenda of the local parliament.
Marshal Tito Street in Pljevlja was renamed to Kralja Petra I Street in the early nineties of the last century, at a time when Pljevlja had a single DPS in power.
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