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Dragica Premovic Aleksic

THE HISTORY OF ROAD NETWORK IN THE TERRITORY
BETWEEN THE LIM RIVER AND IBAR RIVER

Abstract: Through the River of Raska, Novi Pazar area was, from the ear-
liest times, tightly connected to the valley of the River Ibar, and since then via
Kosovo to Vardar Valley, and via it to little Asia and Middle East; on the other
side-via Pester Valley and the River Lim with Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Mon-
tenegro and the Adriatic coast. The communication was continued and was a very
intensive one during Roman, late antique and early Byzantine periods. The most
information on the communication comes from the middle age and the Ottoman
period, when in the area between the Rivers Lim and Ibar, the most significant were
Duborvnik Road, but also Bosnian, Zeta, Skadar, Belgrade and Prizren Roads. The
bridges, inns and motels were a consistent part of the road network, and it was
developed a maintenance system and safety of the roads. Thanks to the developed
road network, caravan trade was also developed, and it was the most intensive one
in 16 and 17th centuries. Different diplomats and travellers passed these roads from
the European countries, behind whom different notes remained, and based on them,
we are able to reconstruct the road network of the territory discussed within this
paper. At the end of 19th century, Austria-Hungary and Turkey led negotiations
and overtook certain concrete measures so as to connect the roads into the Valley
of Lim and Ibar, but they did not succeed to accomplish it.