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Piva (Serbian Cyrillic: Пива,pronounced[pîʋa]) is a historical region inMontenegro, which existed as aMontenegrin tribe also known asPivljani (Пивљани,pronounced[pîʋʎaːni]). It is situated in the northwestern highlands of Montenegro, borderingBosnia and Herzegovina. ThePiva River flows through the region. The regional center is the town ofPlužine.
Piva was anahiya of theOttoman Empire, mentioned in the 1476–78defter.[1] It was earlier mentioned in theChronicle of the Priest of Duklja (c. 1300–10[2]) as one of ten counties in the province of Podgorje,[3] and in theSt. Stephen Chrysobull of Serbian kingStefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321).[4] It was part ofSanjak of Herzegovina during Ottoman rule.
TheSerbian OrthodoxPiva Monastery has stood in Piva since the 16th century. It has produced four Patriarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Under PrinceNicholas I of Montenegro and theCongress of Berlin recognition, in 1878 the Piva together with the Serb Herzegovinian tribes ofBanjani,Nikšići,Šaranci,Drobnjaci and a large number of theRudinjani formed the Old Herzegovina region of the new Montenegrin state.[5][page needed]
During theSecond World War, people of the region fought in both the Serbian royalistChetnik and communistPartisanresistance movements, which fought against each other.
The tribe has since the arrest ofRadovan Karadžić, the wartimeBosnian Serb president and member of the neighbourly Drobnjak tribe of Petnjica (from which the Serbian language reformerVuk Karadžić also descends), petitioned for Tadić's excommunication from the tribe because of Karadžić's arrest. The arrest is seen as directly bad behavior against the Serbian people and from the Piva against theDrobnjak tribe, who had never before had any problems, and it is because of this Tadić's actions have been condemned.[6]
STOJAN ČUPIĆ (DOBRILOVIĆ) (c. 1765–1815) Born in Piva.