Gornji Bučumet


Gornji Bučumet is a settlement in the municipality of Medveđa, in southern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village had a population of 139 people.

Name

The name bučumet is derived from Turkish bućumiš, which means thick, impassable forest.
According to B. Simeonov, the toponym is of Thraco-Roman origin.

Geography

The village of Bučumet is composed out of three mahala : Upper, Lower and Middle Bučumet, which are all settlements registered separately in the census. The three settlements lie in the South Morava basin, above the Jablanica river, and as such are located in the Upper Jablanica region. The highest mountain in Upper Bučumet is Paramid, with the mountain of Sv. Petar being located in Middle Bučumet. The three neighbourhoods of Bučumet are 470 to 853 metres above sea level.

History

There is a medieval church built on the ruins of an older church.
During the Toplica-Jablanica Operation in 1944, the Serbian Volunteer Corps and a German regimental group Dizner were mobilized in the Statovac - Bučumet line, together with other Axis forces, surrounded the Yugoslav Partisans which were situated in the Vidojevica mountain and Rgač mountain. This was the third phase of the Operation, codenamed Halali. The Partisans managed to extract the surrounded forces.

Infrastructure

The rural settlement of Gornji Bučumet is of the "broken type", with scattered residential structure. The village has 42,9% inhabitants dependent on agriculture.
There is a nearby gold mine, in Lece, located some kilometres west, where many inhabitants have worked in the past.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, the village had a population of 139 people, all of whom were ethnic Serbs. There were 119 adults, and the average life span was 47,3 years. There were 52 households, with average number of family members at 2,67.
Ethnic group1948195319611971198119912002
Serbs139
Total436451430342267203139