Štrpci
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Štrpci Штрпци |
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| State : | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Entity : | Republika Srpska | ||
| Municipality : | Rudo | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 38 ' N , 19 ° 29' E | ||
| Height : | 430 m. i. J. | ||
| Residents : | 284 (2013) | ||
| Telephone code : | +387 (0) 58 | ||
Štrpci ( Serbian - Cyrillic Штрпци ) is a place in the municipality of Rudo in the far east of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
geography
The place is located at the foot of the mountain Kom (1003 m) about 12 kilometers east of Rudo above the river Uvac , which forms the border between Bosnia and Serbia here. Štrpci itself is located in the side valley of the Bukovica tributary.
traffic
A few hundred meters above the village is the Štrpci stop on the Belgrade – Bar railway line , which crosses Bosnian territory for a short section. The station is connected to the village by an unpaved serpentine route. Border controls usually do not take place.
Regional road 449, which connects the Lim valley with the Rzav valley near Dobrun , and thus represents the shortest connection between Priboj and Višegrad , runs through the village itself . The municipal capital Rudo can be reached via the regional road 193 through the Lim valley, whereby at Sjeverin Serbian territory must be crossed. However, border controls do not take place.
population
At the 2013 census, Štrpci had 284 inhabitants. In the last census in 1991, 285 of the 308 inhabitants identified themselves as Serbs, 13 as Yugoslavs and 10 as members of other groups.
history
During the Bosnian War on February 27, 1993, 19 passengers on a train on the Belgrade – Bar line were kidnapped by paramilitaries in Štrpci station and later murdered in a camp near Višegrad under the command of Milan Lukić .
On April 3, 1999, the route keeper Vidoje Tomić was shot near the Štrpci station by SFOR units who mined the route in order to cut off the supply route for the Yugoslav troops.
Others
Štrpci has a Serbian Orthodox church from 1908, the “Boško Buha” elementary school, a small shop on the main street and an outdoor pool on the Uvac.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical information on nasbih.com
- ↑ Omerovic, Elvedina. 2003. "Terrorism, Violence and Organized Crime in Sandzak", pp. 44-49 in Crushing Crime in South East Europe: A Struggle of Domestic, Regional and European Dimensions ed. by Predrag Jureković & Frédéric Labarre. Vienna: Federal Army, p. 44.
- ↑ SFOR i incident and Strpcima - Strah I NADA , April 6, 1999. Retrieved on June 15, 2016
