Prijepolje (Serbian Cyrillic: Пријепоље, pronounced [prijěːpoʎe]) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia.

When those caravans were passing through the area which would become Prijepolje, they would arrive at the settlement "before the fields", where the present day neighborhoods of Ivanje and Velika Župa are located.

[4] [full citation needed] Prijepolje is located at the confluence of the fast-flowing Lim and Mileševka rivers.

Prijepolje is surrounded by hills, such as Pušina, Srijeteži, Gradina and Sokolica, which, prior to the construction of the "Potpeć" hydro plant near Nova Varoš, created a unique climate around the municipality.

Since the hydro plant's construction, Prijepolje's climate has been changed into one that is typical for this cold part of Serbia.

First settled by Illyrians, who migrated to the area after being forced out of the northern plains, they retreated to the more defensible and less accessible mountainous regions.

The most interesting archaeological site in the territory is the Roman necropolis near the modern settlement of Kolovrat where pieces of ancient glass, silver, ceramics, and gold have been unearthed.

By 1477, part of the Albanian Mataruge tribe lived in the kaza of Prijepolje, where they formed their own distinct community (nahiye) with 10 villages (katund).

During World War II, Prijepolje officially became part of the Kingdom of Montenegro, a pro-Axis puppet state.

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[15] Prijepolje has many historical monuments from both the periods of Christianity and Islam.

A famous monument from the Turkish period, the Sahat-Kula, is in town, as well as several mosques, one of which is in Hisardžik, interesting because of a four-hundred-year-old wooden Quran which was recently unearthed.

It serves as a gathering place for artists from diverse locations to visit Prijepolje, and corroborate on large projects to improve the town's culture.

During the Ottoman occupation, the villagers were unable to construct a church, and this ancient pine served as a substitute, becoming a spiritual gathering point.

Its cultural importance and remarkable beauty, attributed to its great age, continue to attract visitors from all over the country.

Traditionally every year during MOSI (an annual regional sporting event), both the male and female volleyball teams representing Prijepolje see great success.

Besides basketball player Vlade Divac and numerous volleyball man and woman players, other notable sportspeople from Prijepolje are footballers Spaso Perić, Muhamed Preljević, Latif Čičić, Mirsad Kahrović, Ljubomir Brašnjević, Husein Mekić, Mihajlo Pjanović, Ivica Dragutinović, while Dragoslav Divac, Siniša Nestorović, Stevo Ljujić and Vule Maksimović archived notability in athletics.

Prijepolje has the first civic television program in Serbia run by a women's organization, the Woman Forum.