Kladanj

Kladanj Кладањ
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Federation of BiH
Canton :	Tuzla
Coordinates :	44 ° 14 '  N , 18 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 '31 "  N , 18 ° 41' 37"  E
Height :	570  m. i. J.
Area :	325  km²
Residents :	16,070 (1991)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	+387 (0) 35
Postal code :	75280
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Jusuf Čavkunović (SDA / SBB)
Website :	www.kladanj.ba

Kladanj ( Serbian - Cyrillic Кладањ ) is a small town and the associated municipality in the canton of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

geography

The municipality of Kladanj is located in a valley basin in the Central Uplands of Eastern Bosnia on the upper reaches of the Drinjača River . The municipality is surrounded by the mountains Javor ( 1400  m ) in the east, Smolin ( 1275  m ) in the south, Konjuh ( 1326  m ) in the west and Javornik ( 1060  m ) in the north. The Drinjača rises on Konjuh Mountain to the west of Kladanj. The city is dominated by the local mountain Bratilo ( 1196  m ).

The municipality is bounded by the association municipalities Živinice , Šekovići , Olovo and Banovići . The border with the municipality of Šekovići is also the inner-Bosnian entity border .

Community structure

The municipality includes 42 settlements, which are assigned to the 5 local communities Kladanj (center / south), Starić (east), Stupari (north), Tarevo (north) and Tuholj (west). Through the Treaty of Dayton and the establishment of the entity boundary, the settlement of Majdan and parts of the settlements of Dole and Pelemiši of the Republika Srpska were assigned .

population

At the 1991 census, the community had 16,070 inhabitants. 11,621 of these identified themselves as Bosniaks (72.31%) and 3952 as Serbs (24.59%). 497 residents (3.09%) stated other affiliations.

At that time, 6,644 people lived in the town of Kladanj itself. Here, too, the Bosniaks made up the absolute majority with 4855 residents (73.07%). 1403 residents called themselves Serbs (21.12%).

history

Kuršumlija, the most famous mosque in Kladanj, got its name from the Turkish word for the lead (kurşun) with which it is covered.

Around 400 medieval stećci (tombstones) were found in 53 places around Kladanj . Even at that time, the important trade route from Sarajevo to the north ran via Kladanj. The Kuršumlija Mosque in the center of the village was built at the beginning of the 16th century.

The main cultural monument that remained from the Ottoman era is the Kuršumlija Mosque. It was built by Hadži Bali-beg Malkočević (known as Malkoçoğlu Bali bey in Turkey ) in 1545. As the only mosque in the area with a domed roof, it is very significant despite its small size. In 2004 it was declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the 18th century, gangs of robbers rioted in the area, against which the Ottoman authorities cracked down on with the utmost severity. Under Austrian rule, Kladanj was the administrative seat of a Bosnian district.

During the Bosnian War , Kladanj was under the control of the ARBiH and was repeatedly a transit point for streams of Bosniak refugees from the eastern communities. In various cases, the VRS bussed refugees to the front on the eastern municipal border. From here people had to walk through the no man's land between the lines to the city. This is the fate of the women and children of Srebrenica , who had been brought out of the city before the massacre .

Only the districts of Starić and Stupari suffered severe war damage; the city of Kladanj itself was hardly damaged. After the war, the population of Kladanj was almost exclusively Bosniak. There were around 23,000 people in the community, 8,000 of them refugees from communities to the east.

economy

The area around Kladanj is heavily forested. One of the largest companies is the wood processing company Sokolina . There are hard coal deposits in Konjuh, some of which are also exploited.

traffic

Kladanj is connected to Olovo (20 km), Sarajevo (74 km), Živinice (34 km) and Tuzla (49 km) via the important M18 trunk road . In the city, the M 19.2 branches off in an easterly direction to Vlasenica and Zvornik . There is no railway connection.

Personalities

• Senahid Halilović , professor of the Bosnian language at the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo and editor of several grammars and spelling dictionaries
• Avdaga Hasić (1893–1982), leader of the local militia "Avdaga's Legion"
• Sulejman Kupusović (1951–2014), theater and film director
• Mirko Pejanović (* 1946), political scientist and politician, was born in Kladanj.
• Akif Šeremet (1889–1939), co-founder and secretary of the BKJ

swell

• Kladanj on the side of the Federal Commissioner for Bosnia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bhtourism.ba/ger/kladanj.wbsp
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Markus Koller: Bosnia on the threshold to modern times , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2004, page 137.
4. ↑ Kladanj - muška voda on YouTube
5. ^ Graovac, Dušan: "Crveni profesor Akif Šeremet", Samobor, 1982