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Prebilovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Пребиловци), a village in Herzegovina, near the city of Čapljina (Чапљина). Prebilovci was first mentioned in the 15th century. The village has a population of roughly around 50 inhabitants.
Prebilovci is located in the Čapljina municipality, which makes up one of the nine municipalities in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. The village is also located near the Nature Park and Bird Reserve of Hutovo Blato (5km from Čapljina). Since 1995, Hutovo Blato has been protected as a nature park by the Public Enterprise Hutovo Blato.
History
The name of the village, Prebilovci, first emerged sometime around the 15th century, and is believed to have come from the old family of Pribilović. In the Serb Orthodox cemetery and in some other locations too, there are many beautifully carbed out stone graves, probably of bogomils from the Middle Ages. There is also an old grave which is believed to have belonged to a certain Stjepan Pribilović. Today the name Pribilovci is also more frequenty used for the village.
Before the outbreak of the Second World War In Yugoslavia, the village was made up of Serbs and a few Muslim families as well, who had converted to Islam two or three centuries earlier, and life changed for the best under the Turkish occupants. The present population is primary made up of Serbs, ever since the war drew to a close, when the Muslims left their homes or were expelled because of the ethnic tensions. The people acted in revenges for atrocities committed against their women and children. Few villages in Herzegovina have vitnessed these kinds of horrors during the world war two persecution and genocide of Serbs.
WWII
During the Second World War the inhabitants of Prebilovci fell victim to the Ustaša's presecutions of non-Croats. On the 6th of august, 1941, some 650 women and children were taken away from their homes, after which they were moved to a place called Surmanci, where they were later thrown into natural pits around that area (the most infamous being Golubinka), together with 1.300 other Serbs living in the Čapljina and Mostar municipalities . The men were in the mountains, hiding, in belief that the Croats would not harm their women and children. Althrough, a group of 170 villagers, which primarily consisted of men, survived the massacre. 300 children and infants were massacred that day alone. Few Ustašas who took part in this were ever brought to trial after the War In Yugoslavia had ended .
Present Day
Picture gallery
See also
External links
References
43°05′40″N 17°45′12″E / 43.09444°N 17.75333°E / 43.09444; 17.75333
- Gelcich, Mon. Rag., Libri Ref. IV, 172