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17-467: Bilino Polje , is historic areal and polje , located near town of Zenica , in Bosnia and Hezegovina . Today, Bilino Polje represents an urban area of the town, and it is one of its main local communal self-governing units or Bosnian : Mjesna zajednica . Among other Bosnian župas , Bored župa or Brod župa , which includes "Bilina poila" , is mentioned in the charters. The place refers to one part of

34-479: A closed polje ) or ponors . Usually, the ponors cannot transmit entire flood flows, so many poljes become wet-season lakes. The structure of some poljes is related to the geological structure, but others are purely the result of lateral dissolution and planation . The development of poljes is fostered by any blockage in the karst drainage. A polje covers the flatbottomed lands of closed basins which may extend over large areas, up to 1,000 km . The flat floor of

51-623: A karst polje in Inner Carniola , a region in southwestern Slovenia . The lake, oriented in the Dinaric direction from north-west to south-east, is present for the most part of the year. When full, it is the largest lake in the country. The plain is surrounded by the Javornik Hills (1,268 metres or 4,160 feet) to the south and Slivnica (1,022 m or 3,353 ft) to the north, both belonging to Dinaric Alps. The area of

68-665: A local toponym , perhaps of Illyrian origin. It is Romanized as Lugeum . In November 1687 the Carniolan polymath Johann Weikhard von Valvasor described the lake in his letter to the Royal Society , an excerpt of which was published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions in December that year. He proposed a model of filling and emptying the lake, based on Cartesian mechanics. The first to accurately describe

85-658: A polje may consist of bare limestone, of a nonsoluble formation (as with rolling topography), or of soil. A polje typically shows complex hydrogeological characteristics such as exsurgences , estavelles , swallow holes, and lost rivers . In colloquial use, the term "polje" designates flat-bottomed lands which are overgrown or are under cultivation. The Dinaric Karst has many poljes. They are mostly distributed in subtropical and tropical latitudes but some also appear in temperate or, rarely, boreal regions. Usually covered with thick sediments , called "terra rossa", they are used extensively for agricultural purposes. Some poljes of

102-476: Is polye (поле). As a borrowing, apart from English it can be found in a number of languages including: French , German , Greek , Italian , Spanish and Turkish (which uses polye ). Cerknica Polje Lake Cerknica ( pronounced [ˈtseːɾknitsa] ; Slovene : Cerkniško jezero , German : Zirknitzer See ) is an intermittent lake in the southern part of the Cerknica Polje ,

119-435: Is an important wildlife resource, especially as a nesting place for many bird species. It has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International . The lake, which under ordinary conditions has an area of about 26 km (10 sq mi) and a mean depth of 6.1 m (20 ft), communicates through a number of openings with a series of subterranean reservoirs or caverns, some of which are above

136-530: Is synonymous with interior valley . The word polje ( Cyrillic : поље ) itself is of Slavic origin (best known as the root for the country Poland , Polska , from the Polish word pole 'field'). English borrowed polje from Slovene or Serbo-Croatian ( Cyrillic : поље , pronounced [pôʎe] ). The equivalent in neighbouring Macedonian and Bulgarian is pole (поле), and in Russian it

153-1009: The Dinaric Alps are inundated during the rainy winters and spring seasons as masses of water called izvor or vrelo appears at the margins. The water disappears through shafts called ponor . Prominent karst poljes are Livanjsko polje (about 60 km long and 7 km wide), Glamočko Polje , Grahovsko Polje , Drvarsko Polje , Duvanjsko Polje , Kupreška Visoravan (Kupres Highlands) , Popovo Polje , Dabarsko Polje, Nevesinjsko Polje and Gatačko Polje in Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Logatec , Planina , and Cerknica Polje in Slovenia ; Grahovsko Polje and Nikšićko Polje in Montenegro ; Ličko Polje and Krbava in Lika , Croatia ; Begovo Pole in North Macedonia and Odorovsko polje

170-502: The Bosnia and Herzegovina national rugby union team as well. Polje A polje, in geological terminology, is a large, flat-floored depression within karst limestone, whose long axis develops in parallel with major structural trends and can become several miles (tens of kilometers) long. Superficial deposits tend to accumulate along the floor. Drainage may be either by surface watercourses (as an open polje ) or by swallow holes (as

187-542: The Zenica area and its status as a seat of the Bosnian Church is supported by written documents, but also by engravings which illuminate the church's hierarchy. Bilino Polje Stadium is the home football stadium of Bosnian Premier League football club NK Čelik from the city of Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of two stadiums of the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also sometimes used for

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204-483: The area is continental , with a mean temperature of 9.2 °C (48.6 °F) and the annual precipitation about 1,700 millimetres (67 in). Botanically, the lake is distinguished by amphibious plants. It is therefore a part of two Natura 2000 areas of protection and the focus of the Inner Carniola Regional Park , which covers additional Natura 2000 areas in the broader region. The lake

221-453: The lake level in the surrounding hills. In the summer, when the rainfall is slight, the lake is completely drained into the reservoirs lying below its level, and its bed is speedily covered with rich vegetation. With the returning heavy rains in autumn, the surrounding higher reservoirs are filled and discharge suddenly through the subterranean passages into the lake, so that the latter very rapidly regains its ordinary volume and may even inundate

238-400: The lake mainly reaches 28 square kilometres (11 sq mi), but can reach up to 38 km (15 sq mi) and the surface level varies from 546 m (1,791 ft) to 551 m (1,808 ft) above sea level. The largest settlement at the border of the lake is Cerknica , located north of the lake. Various watersports, including rowing, are popular on the lake. The climate in

255-507: The only karst polje in Serbia . In Portugal, the town of Minde is located in a landscape of intensive karst. In the summer the polje is fertile fields, in winter, in case of heavy rain, a temporary lake. The former Lake Copais in Boeotia , Greece, fed subterranean channels (some artificial) until a 1957 land reclamation project drained it completely. In its original languages, the word

272-442: The surrounding country. The changes in level are, however, very irregular. Sometimes the lake does not disappear for several years, and it can remain dry for over a year, as it did in 1834–35. It is rich in fish, which disappear and return with the water. Strabo in his Geography mentions a "marsh called Lugeon" ( helos Lougeon kaloumenon ) which has been identified with Lake Cerknica, Lougeon being Strabo's Greek rendition of

289-671: The town of Zenica, today known as Bilino Polje. The “Confessio” (abjuration) was signed at Bilino Polje by seven priors of the Bosnian Church in this field, on 8 April 1203. The same document was brought to Buda , in 30 April by Giovanni da Casamari and Kulin and two abbots, where it was examined by Emeric, King of Hungary , and the high clergy. Confessio records that a group of Bogomil leaders renounced patareni 's teachings before Innocent III 's court chaplain John of Casamaris ( Giovanni da Casamari ). Bosnian krstjani 's presence in

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