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14-418: The venue is located in the new part of Podgorica, on the right bank of Morača River , after which it got its name. Construction of the sports complex began in 1978, and various sporting facilities are scattered within it, across a five hectare area. Besides being a sports venue, Morača Sports Centre also hosts various concerts and events. The new venue was inaugurated with a friendly basketball game between

28-616: A Montenegro sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mora%C4%8Da River The Morača ( Serbian Cyrillic : Морача , pronounced [mǒrat͡ʃa] ) is a major river in Montenegro that originates in the northern region in Kolašin Municipality under Mount Rzača. It meanders southwards for 99.5 km (61.8 mi) before emptying into Lake Skadar . Its drainage basin covers 3,257 km (1,258 sq mi). In its upper flow

42-467: A basketball / volleyball / handball hall, with seating capacity of 2,200. The venue will host the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship for the preliminary rounds. The sports complex's main indoor hall serves as the primary multi-purpose indoor arena in Podgorica. It is best known as home arena of SD Budućnost Podgorica 's basketball , volleyball and handball teams. This article about

56-528: A moderate political climate established by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha rebuilding started in 1574 and ended in 1580. Reconstruction itself was led by monks Tomo and Mojsije, and financially supported by the local population, especially knez Vukić Vučetić. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , great reformer of the Serbian language and collector of Serbian epic poems , recorded two poems regarding the Sack of Kolašin , in which in

70-634: Is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the valley of the Morača River in Kolašin , central Montenegro . It was founded in 1252 by Stefan Vukanović , of the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty . It is one of the best known medieval monuments of Montenegro. The founding history is engraved above the western portal. Stefan , a son of the Grand Prince of Zeta Vukan Nemanjić (r. 1190-1207), founded

84-680: Is a big one-nave church built in the Rascian style , which developed from 1170 as first of three major artistic and architectural schools of medieval Serbia (also visible in Studenica , Mileševa , Sopoćani , Arilje and, as regards Montenegro, in Berane and Bijelo Polje). The two main portals are in Romanesque style. The church is devoted to the Assumption of Mary , while a minor chapel

98-432: Is devoted to Saint Nicholas . Besides architecture, frescoes are also of special importance. The oldest are eleven compositions representing the life of prophet Elias and date back to the 13th century. They show conservative traits, with late-Comnenian figure schemes and architectural motifs of heavy and solid blocks, similar in manner to the frescoes of Sopoćani (Serbia). The others are less preserved and date back to

112-456: Is one of the symbols, attractions and main notable physical geographical features of Podgorica, as it is the city's principal river. The Morača is also featured on some country symbols and flags. The Morača monastery , which was founded in 1252 by Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić , is located just north of the river's canyon. Mora%C4%8Da monastery The Morača Monastery ( Serbian : Манастир Морача , romanized :  Manastir Morača )

126-597: The Adriatic Sea at Ada Bojana . Relative to other rivers of its length, the Morača is weak in volume. It is rarely more than 50 m (160 ft) wide and mostly shallow, so it is generally not navigable. Its canyon is a corridor for the main road leading from the Montenegrin Littoral to Podgorica, and then to northern Montenegro until it reaches Serbia . The road is considered impassable on foot. It

140-550: The Yugoslav national team and Wichita State University . The complex's main indoor hall hosted six preliminary-round games of EuroBasket 2005 . The venue underwent a major refurbishment for the tournament in order to meet the arena standards imposed by FIBA . With the immense growth of the popularity of water polo in Montenegro, two brand new open-air swimming pools were added to the facility in 2009, which also hosted

154-472: The 2009 FINA Water Polo World League . In 2018, the arena's main hall underwent renovations and expansion, in order to meet the arena standards of the EuroLeague . Its seating capacity was increased to 6,000, and VIP lounges were also added. The cost of the renovation project was €4.5 million euros . Also, former indoor pool arena (which was in disrepair and unused for over a decade) was repurposed as

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168-541: The Morača is a fast mountain river. Just north of Podgorica it merges with its largest tributary, the Zeta , which it then cuts a rocky canyon before entering the Zeta plain . It flows through the surrounding flatland until it empties into Lake Skadar on the border with Albania . A shorter, much broader, meandering, approximately sea-level river, the Bojana , flows through the northwest corner of Albania until it drains into

182-517: The beginning Novica Cerović and Serdar Milan drink wine together besides the white church in Morača. In July 1944, during World War II , a third session of the Yugoslav land assembly was held at the monastery, in which Montenegrin communists demanded that "the separate mention of the Bay of Kotor be excluded" (resulting in its incorporation into PR Montenegro ). The main sanctuary ( katholikon )

196-592: The monastery in 1252, possibly on his own lands (appanage). The region was under the rule of the Nemanjić dynasty and the founder himself was grandson of Stefan Nemanja , father of the Serbian statehood. The monastery was burned by the Ottomans for the first time in 1505, during a turbulent period of insurgency in Montenegro. The monks took shelter in Vasojevići . It was abandoned for the next seventy years. Thanks to

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