Šekovići

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Šekovići
Шековићи

Šekovići's coat of arms

Šekovići (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Basic data
State : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity : Republika Srpska
Coordinates : 44 ° 18 '  N , 18 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 17 '50 "  N , 18 ° 51' 10"  E
Height : 550  m. i. J.
Area : 202  km²
Residents : 5,942 (2018)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : +387 (0) (+387) 56
Postal code : 75450
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor : Momir Ristić ( SP )
Website :
Others
City Festival : August 28th
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Šekovići ( Serbian - Cyrillic Шековићи ) is a municipality ( opština ) and the place of the same name in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina . It borders the communities of Kalesija and Osmaci in the north, Zvornik in the east, Vlasenica in the south, Kladanj in the west and has belonged to the Republika Srpska since the Bosnian War .

Landscape in the municipality of Šekovići

The sparsely populated municipality is located in the wooded low mountain range of the Birač region in northeast Bosnia and is crossed by the Drinjača and Tišća rivers . There are two Serbian Orthodox monasteries in the municipality, Papraća and Lovnica in the valley of the river of the same name near the Šekovići municipality center.

In the last census before the Bosnian War in 1991 of 9,629 inhabitants, a total of 9,030 (93.8%) described themselves as Serbs and 326 (3.4%) as Bosniaks . Of 34 places in the municipality, the village of Papraća - the location of one of the two Serbian monasteries - was the only one with a Bosniak majority.

During the war the community was right on the front line; many places were badly damaged. At the 2013 census, the population was 6,761. Of these, 6,618 identified themselves as Serbs (97.9%) and 107 as Bosniaks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://rzs.rs.ba/front/article/3630/ Updated population figures for 2018 from the Institute for Statistics of the Republika Srpska. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Agencija za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine: Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u Bosni i Hercegovini, 2013. Rezultati popisa. (pdf, 19.7 MB) Sarajevo, June 2016; P. 65

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