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The Karst Ponor-mills at Dobromani, Popovo Polje, Eastern Herzegovina, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

updated 28 April 2004.


1.0.    LOCATIONAL DETAILS.


Photo DPM 1. shows a view approaching Dobromani in Popovo Polje from the west along the road Ljubinje to Trebinje, within the Trebinje Administrative Region.
The road signs in the distance indicate both the junction (to the right) with the road to Jasenica Lug and the roadside restaurant at the junction.
Vaguely indicated in the far right of the view is the bridge carrying the side road over the Trebišnjica karst river.
The karst mountain in the background is part of Bjelašnica Mountain.
(Photo :  M. Hardman, 15 Aug 2000.)

Dobromani is a small village situated near the north bank of the Trebišnjica karst river in Popovo Polje, Eastern Herzegovina and is 21km. (13 miles) from Trebinje.

There are three Ponor-mills at Dobromani, all of which are the subject of this project and they are located on opposite sides of the Trebišnjica River in that part of Popovo Polje known as Trebinjska Šuma (Trebinje Forest) - a Karst Corrosional Plain. The three Ponor-mills are the Drapića Mlin (the most westerly of the 3 mills); the Perišića Mlin (the central mill adjacent to the restaurant) and the East Ponor-mill, for which we have no name.

The  Perišića Mlin is situated only 33.5 metres from the nearby Trebinje-Dobromani-Ljubinje Road, which runs almost parallel with the river in this part of Popovo Polje. Exactly 36.5 metres upstream (eastwards) from the Ponor-mill is a road junction where a small bridge takes a minor cross-polje road across the Trebišnjica River and the polje floor towards Jasenica Lug, a small village on the south side of the polje, some 4km. (2.5 miles) distant. By using this bridge to cross the river, access can be gained to the Drapića Mlin, 383 metres downstream (westward) on the opposite riverbank. This bridge will also allow access on the opposite bank, to the East Ponor-mill, situated 840 metres eastwards, upstream.

Dobromani and its Ponor-mills are currently well within the jurisdiction of the self-styled political entity of "Republika Srpska", (Trebinje Administrative Region / Trebinje Municipality) in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Mills are each in private ownership and are neither the property of the State nor of the HET Company in Trebinje.


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