Zarožje (Serbian Cyrillic: Зарожје) is a village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, in western Serbia.

Located on the slopes of the Povlen mountain, Zarožje has abundance of forests and meadows, and developed agriculture and husbandry.

The village, and one of its features, the watermill, are best known as the inspiration for Milovan Glišić's 1880 short story After ninety years.

It is located on the southern slopes of the Povlen, 30 km (19 mi) northeast from its municipal seat, Bajina Bašta.

Another story claims the origin of the name came from the word zarozan, meaning disheveled, after townspeople from Užice were teasing peasants from Zarožje because of the way they dressed.

The oldest settlers were the Kosić and Vasić families, who migrated from the Crmnica and Piva regions in Montenegro.

[1] Due to the lots of meadows on the Povlen's descent, the village used to be almost completely engaged in livestock breeding.

There is an agricultural products collection center in the village, and a small, privately owned dairy which produced organic yoghurt.

[1] As tourism developed in Perućac and Tara, the road through the village, across Debelo Brdo pass, gained importance.

[6] The village has an old chapel in which, according to the legend, Serbian army received Holy Communion before the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

[1] The hamlet of Golići is interesting to the mountaineers, while the nearby stony hills are naturally shaped like horns, resembling Đavolja Varoš in south Serbia,[7] which gave the name to the village.

[1] According to the legend, there is a watermill in the village, which was often visited by Sava Savanović, the most famous vampire in Serbian folklore.

This inspired Milovan Glišić to write a short story about Savanović and his watermill in 1880, titled After ninety years.

[1][3] The watermill is located 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Bajina Bašta-Valjevo road, in the deep valley of the Rogačica river.

[12] By the early 2010s, the ownership problems were resolved and the local administration to reconstruct the watermill made of wood and stone, and to adapt it into the proper tourist attraction.

Plans also included that the watermill will be operational again, producing the flour named after Sava Savanović while the local farmers would sell honey and rakia.

[8] The municipal authorities issued a tongue-in-cheek public health warning, advising people that Savanović was now free to look for a new home.

Works are scheduled to continue in the spring of 2019 when the mill wheel, grinding stone and artificial widening of the stream will be finished.