Facebook ► / bosanskitefericc Teferič is: having fun, having fun, enjoying nature, a trip to nature for the purpose of having fun and entertainment. Teferič also entered our dear sevdalinka - "do you miss Banja Luka, Banja Luka teferič, near Vrbas akšamluk...". The old big teferič was usually held on August 2nd on Aliđun. Famous teferičs that were held in big cities are known throughout our homeland, but also those in villages and hamlets. At teferič, people really 'fattened up', ate, drank and had fun. Oxen, sheep, goats were turned on a spit and the most beautiful songs in the world were sung, sevdalinka were sung. There is a brother and a teferič in his own direction. Working people who always work take advantage of any national holiday or weekend and settle down by a beautiful river, stream and braid themselves on ćevapi, šežnjići and sokići. Someone brings a ball, another chess and a third darts. They have fun, they play egleniše and sevdis. Knežina is a populated place in the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Knežina was once a town, while in the more recent past it existed as a village. The settlement of Knežina is located 12 km northwest of Sokolac, and 26 km southeast of Olovo, on the regional road R-468 (Sokolac - Olovo). The Bioštica River flows through the settlement. There are a number of hillforts in the village of Knežina and its surroundings, and it is assumed that this area has been inhabited since the Illyrians. The presence of a large number of necropolises with stećak tombstones indicates that Knežina and its surroundings were densely populated in the Middle Ages. During the period of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Knežina was a place in the vilayet of Pavle, and in the nahija of Olovo. At the end of the 16th century, it was part of the new Birač (Vlasenica) kadiluk, which also included Knežina and its surroundings. There is a claim that the seat of the Birač kadiluk was first in Knežina. In a document from 1563, Knežina is designated as a kasaba. It was given this status based on a certain internal content of the settlement and on the basis of a formal-legal act issued by the sultan. For this purpose, a mosque and several artisans' čaršijas had to be built, then a mekteb, a market for livestock and agricultural products, and a han, or caravanserai. From the report to the Roman See of the Bosnian bishop Maravić from 1655, it can be seen that the place had about 300 houses and 1,500 inhabitants, four mosques, one or two mektebs, a hamam and a courthouse where the qadi sat, then turbes and an han. The downfall of Knežina There are several possible, but historically unconfirmed, reasons for the downfall of Knežina: After the Vienna War in 1683, according to little-known data, during the campaign of the Austrian army under the leadership of Eugene of Savoy, almost all urban settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina were destroyed by looting and fire, so Knežina probably also died then. There is another version of the destruction of the Principality, which is that the Principality was set on fire by Montenegrin bandits. The third version says that the Princess perished in a fire around 1765. The fourth version says that the population of the Principality was decimated by plague in the middle of the 18th century. Since the beginning or middle of the 18th century, the principality has had the character of a village, and as such it saw the end of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1885, according to the official census during the Austro-Hungarian rule, Knežina had the status of a village with a total of 45 houses and 199 inhabitants. The Sultan Selim Mosque, the most monumental building in the town of Knežine, was demolished in the summer of 1992, and was rebuilt in 2011. It was declared a national cultural monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.