Goražde

Goražde Горажде
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Federation of BiH
Canton :	Bosnian Podrinje
Coordinates :	43 ° 40 ′  N , 18 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 2 "  N , 18 ° 58 ′ 26"  E
Height :	345  m. i. J.
Area :	252  km²
Residents :	22,080 (2013)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	+387 (0) 38
Postal code :	73000
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Muhamed Ramović (independent)
Website :	www.gorazde.ba
Others
City Festival :	Festival Prijateljstva

Goražde ( Cyrillic  Горажде , German outdated Goraschde , Strupnitsch ) is a city in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina . It belongs to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , one of two administrative units in the south-eastern European country, and is located about 50 km southeast of Sarajevo (as the crow flies) on the Drina . The city has 22,000 inhabitants and is 90% inhabited by Bosniaks . The metal and chemical industries are economically important.

Goražde is the largest of three municipalities in the small canton of Bosnian Podrinje and its administrative center.

View over Goražde

The Drina in the center of Goražde

geography

The city is located at about 345 meters above sea level on the upper reaches of the Drina, which here - coming from Foča - deviates from its north course for a short distance and flows to the northeast. Goražde is surrounded by wooded mountains, the peaks of which rise up to 960 meters (Sjenokos) in the city. The mountain Ostro in the foothills of the Jahorina , a little further away to the west, reaches 1016 meters.

history

Goražde was first mentioned in the period from 1379 to 1404. At that time it was located on a trade route that ran from Ragusa through the Drina valley towards the silver mines of Srebrenica and beyond. From 1423 to 1878 it was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire , then from 1878 to 1918 under the rule of Austria-Hungary . During the Second World War there were expulsions and massacres in East Bosnia, which was fiercely contested between partisans and Chetniks - also in the area around Goražde.

The Alija-Izetbegović Bridge during the Bosnian War with an additional pedestrian suspension bridge to protect against snipers

In the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, the city was fiercely contested between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniaks and besieged almost from the start. In the late summer of 1992 the Serbs were expelled from the area around the village and the ring of siege was loosened. In 1993 it was declared a UN protection zone , but that did not change the situation. A Serbian attack on Goražde in March 1994 was observed by the UN, but not prevented. In April, when the situation worsened again and Serb artillery attacked the city center, Serbian positions around Goražde were fired upon by NATO aircraft as part of Operation Deny Flight . Goražde remained the only one of the predominantly Bosniak-inhabited cities on the Drina that was able to defend itself in the armed conflicts. In the Dayton Agreement , most of the city area was assigned to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; only a few places in the north and north-east came to the Republika Srpska and today form the municipality of Ustiprača (also Novo Goražde ). Goražde is only connected to the rest of the Federation by a narrow strip of land, through which an unpaved road link has been running since the war.

The comic book Safe Area Goražde (2000) by Joe Sacco is an illustrated report on everyday life in the protection zone between 1992 and 1995.

population

According to the last Yugoslav census of 1991, the large municipality of Goražde had 37,753 inhabitants, which were distributed over 187 settlements. Of these, 26,296 identified themselves as Slavic Muslims (69.98%), 9,843 as Serbs (26.19%) and 789 as Yugoslavs (2.09%). The city itself had 16,273 inhabitants at that time. The proportion of Bosniaks was slightly lower (58.79%), that of Serbs higher (34.31%).

According to the 2013 census, the first after the war, the Opština Goražde - now without Ustiprača or Novo Goražde - had a total of 20,897 inhabitants. Of these, 19,692 identified themselves as Bosniaks (94.2%) and 707 as Serbs (3.4%). 497 stated that they did not belong or that they did not belong (2.4%).

Sports

The football club FK Goražde plays in the second division of Bosnia.

sons and daughters of the town

• Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1405–1466), Greater Vojvode of Bosnia, born near Goražde
• Isak Samokovlija (1889–1955), writer
• Alija Šiljak (1947–2015), general and politician
• Senjanin Maglajlija (* 1968), handball player and coach
• Elvir Laković Laka (* 1969), singer
• Miroslav Radović (* 1984), football player
• Džejla Ramović (* 2002), singer

Town twinning

Sister cities of Goražde are

Kayseri , Turkey , since 1996 Gaziemir , Turkey, since 1998 Mettmann , Germany , since 1998 Gävle , Sweden , since 1999 Gera , Germany, since 2002 Adapazarı , Turkey, since 2005 Sarajevo-Stari Grad , Bosnia and Herzegovina , since 2005 Sesto San Giovanni , Italy , since 2006

Maragha , Iran , since 2009 Saint-Brieuc , France , since 2010 Güngören , Turkey, since 2010 Keçiören , Turkey, since 2010 Lamballe , France, since 2011 Trogir , Croatia , since 2011 Ptuj , Slovenia , since 2011 Şahinbey , Turkey, since 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Noel Malcolm: A Short History of Bosnia ; Pan Books 2002; P. 25
2. ^ Noel Malcolm: A Short History of Bosnia ; Pan Books 2002; P. 256 f.
3. ↑ 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. 59
4. ↑ Bratski gradovi i Opčine. Goražde municipality, accessed on November 26, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Goražde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality (Bosnian)
• Information about Goražde (Bosnian, English)