Šarani cemetery

Šarani The village of Šarani is located in the southern part of the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, on the banks of the Dičina River. It borders the villages of Brđani, Semedraž, Takovo, Ločevci, and Drenova, and on the southwest side with Milićevci in the municipality of Čačak. Šarani has eight hamlets: Dolove, Šarenac, Ozrića Brdo, Baščinu, Sađevine, Pod, Ječmina, Luka, and Savinac, a small town that was formed when Prince Miloš built the Church of St. Sava in 1819 near the healing spring by the Dičina River. This area is also connected to the section of the "Miloš Veliki" Highway. It is believed that Šarani was a mining settlement in the Middle Ages. It is mentioned in Turkish defteras as the village of Andratnica or Andretnica. In addition to the indigenous population, new settlements began in the late 18th and 19th centuries with people from Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the surrounding area of Užice. Village Cemetery A small number of old tombstones have been preserved. Chronologically, the oldest ones are massive crosses and low monuments with geometric carvings of various sizes and shapes. The most common monuments are pillar-shaped and vertical slabs that end with a decoratively crafted cross.