Amajlije

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Amajlije
Амајлије
Amajlije (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Basic data
State : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity : Republika Srpska
Municipality : Bijeljina
Coordinates : 44 ° 45 '  N , 19 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 44 '36 "  N , 19 ° 16' 12"  E
Height : 93  m. i. J.
Residents : 1,165 (2013)
Telephone code : +387 (0) 055
Structure and administration
Community type: Village
Mayor : Vojislav Jeftic
Others
Patron saint : Holy Trinity

Amajlije ( Serbian Cyrillic : Амајлије) is a village in the Opština (municipality) Bijeljina in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Surname

The name of the village is derived from the Serbian word Amajlije , which means amulets in German . The village used to be called Duboka .

geography

Amajlije lies in the flat plain of the Semberija , 5.2 km southeast of the municipal capital Bijeljina. The village is located around 120 km northeast of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo .

The municipality of Bijeljina is located in the Republika Srpska , one of two entities in the country, with a predominantly Serbian population.

Amajlije is not far from the Drina River , a right tributary of the Save , which here forms the border with the eastern neighboring country of Serbia . Small streams and canals also flow through the village, one of which is called Zelenak .

The village consists of the village parts ( hamlets ): Bair, Bakir, Buk, Bukreš, Kovanluci and Vitaja .

The neighboring villages of Amajlije are: Golo Brdo , Kovanluk and Popovi .

The climate in the village is temperate-continental. All around Amajlije there are wide fields, these are called Sarija by the villagers and are used for agriculture and cattle breeding.

population

Amajlije had 1,165 inhabitants at the 2013 census in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This census was the first after the census in 1991 in what was then Yugoslavia , before the outbreak of the Bosnian War .

The inhabitants of the village are Serbs .

Demographics

year population
1948 947
1953 984
1961 1128
1971 1126
1981 1098
1991 1110
2013 1165

history

The area where today's Amajlije is located was already populated during the time of the Roman Empire . In Amajlije, a 13 cm bronze figure was found from the Roman era.

According to folk tales, before the village was founded, there were large forests on the site of the present-day village. Amajlije was founded in the 16th century , more precisely in 1725, by Serbs from the Trebinje area in eastern Herzegovina .

The first resident of the village is said to have been Milan Crnogorčević, with his four sons: Ćirko, Mirko, Marko and Đurko, from whom many of the families still living in the village are descended. These Serbs had fled their homeland before the Ottoman (Turkish) rule. The old name of the village Amajlije is said to have been Duboka according to the folk tale .

Until the beginning of the 20th century, Amajlije was more of a smaller village, which steadily increased in number with the more intensive use of arable land.

The village was hit by major floods in 2010 and 2014 ( Balkan Depression Yvette ) which caused major property damage in Amajlije. Amajlije is the seat of a local community (Mesna zajednica).

religion

The population is committed to the Serbian Orthodox Church . In Amajlije, built from 1997 to 2002 is Serbian Orthodox Holy Trinity Church , the parish church of the same parish Amajlije in the Dean's Office Bijeljina of the eparchy of Zvornik - Tuzla of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The Slava of the village is the third day of Pentecost . The parish of Amajlije consists of two villages: Amajlije and Novo Selo . Amajlije owns a Serbian Orthodox village cemetery.

Sports

The village of Amajlije has the football club FK Drina Amajlije , the club has its own football field near the church in the center of the village.

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