Kupres

Kupres Купрес
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Federation of BiH
Canton :	10
Coordinates :	43 ° 59 '  N , 17 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 59 '26 "  N , 17 ° 16' 46"  E
Height :	1135  m. i. J.
Area :	569.8  km²
Residents :	5,893 (2013)
Population density :	10 inhabitants per km²
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Zdravko Mioč ( HDZ BiH )
Website :	www.opcinakupres.ba

Kupres ( Cyrillic  Купрес ) is a large municipality ( Općina ) with almost 6,000 inhabitants in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The predominantly Croatian community is located in north-western Herzegovina and belongs to Canton 10 of the Federation . The main town of the municipality is the city ​​of Kupres .

Due to the Bosnian War (1992-1995), the municipality Kupres (RS ) was formed from three districts of the former unitary municipality on the territory of the Republika Srpska.

location

The city is located in the valley Kupreško polje at an altitude of 1135 m above sea level. The valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides. The highest peak in the area is the Malovan at 1828 m; the lowest of the Mosor with 1371 m. There are more than 20 lakes within the community of Kupres. The Kukavičko jezero is the largest of them with an area of ​​3.75 km². Other lakes are the Turjača with 2.5 km² and the Rastičevo with 1.9 km².

Center of Kupres

Kupreško polje is a large, karst valley and extends from Livanjsko and Glamočko polje in the south to Duvanjsko polje in the north. The valley is about 24 km long and about 10 km wide; its longitudinal direction runs from northwest to southeast. Overall, it extends over an area of ​​93 km².

Militarily, the city is in a strategically important place. The Kupreška vrata tunnel is considered the gateway to western Herzegovina. The pass allows penetration into the plain and control of the surrounding area.

Local communities

The following local communities belong to the community: Barjamovci , Begovo Selo , Bili Potok , Blagaj , Botun , Brda , Bucovaca , Donje Ravno , Donje Vukovsko , Donji Malovan , Goravci , Gornje Ravno , Gornje Vukovsko , Gornji Malovan , Gusići , Kudilji , Kukavice , Kute , Mlakva , Mrdjebare , Musić , Novo Selo , Odzak , Olovo , Osmanlije , Otinovci , Rastičevo , Rilic , Strazbenica , Suhova , Šemenovci , Vile , Vrila , Zanaglina , Zlosela and Zvirnjača .

Main square of Kupres

history

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The first traces of settlement date from the 3rd millennium BC. Chr.

9 v. The Romans conquered the area around Kupres. An important Roman traffic route that connects Dalmatia with Pannonia led over the 1,200 m high plain . Numerous Roman monuments and tombstones bear witness to the Roman presence in Kupres. In the village of Otinovci there are the ruins of an early Christian basilica .

From the 7th century until 1326 Kupres contributed as part of the Kingdom of Croatia-Dalmatia the name Vrhovine . 1326 joined the Bosnian Ban Stjepan II. Kotromanić Kupres to Bosnia and named the region Završje .

In 1476 the city fell to the Ottoman Empire for three centuries . The invasion of the Austro-Hungarian troops in 1878 put an end to Ottoman rule.

With the outbreak of World War II and the conquest of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Kupres fell under Italian occupation. During the war, the city was fought over several times and was badly destroyed.

After the Second World War, Kupres was rebuilt, with winter tourism in particular becoming an important industry.

From 1992 to 1995 the Bosnian War raged in Kupres as well . The city was badly destroyed.

On July 30, 2017, the city of Kupres broke a world record by gathering 2,325 people with the name "Ivan" at the city stadium and thus entered the Guinness Book of World Records .

Roman Catholic Holy Family Church under construction in Kupres (2009)

population

The majority of the population in Kupres was formed by the Serbs before the war . Croats were the second largest group of the population, whereas the Bosniaks were only a small minority in Kupres. Today Kupres is almost exclusively inhabited by Croatians.

Sports

• The ski area in Kupres extends at an altitude of 1200 to 1550 m above sea level and has four ski slopes with a total length of 13 km. There are two ski lifts and one chair lift each (a double chair lift and a detachable quad chair lift) and a baby lift with a capacity of 5000 people per hour. During the Bosnian War, the ski area (especially the hotel) was damaged, but then reopened with the purchase of used equipment.
• The detachable quad chairlift comes from Flumserberg / Switzerland and was built there in 1986 by the French company Poma , it was the first, modern, detachable quad chairlift in Switzerland. It was replaced there in 2006 by an eight-seater chairlift, it was again the first in Switzerland, and was set up again here in Kupres.
• The double chairlift is also a used facility. This lift, made by Doppelmayr , originally comes from Bichlbach / Austria and has been in operation there since 1977. The lift had to make way for a new system and was dismantled in August 2007 and re-erected in Kupres.
• Aero Club Kupres

Personalities

• Stanko Svitlica (* 1976), Serbian football player
• Slobodan Milišić (* 1966), Serbian football player

Web links

• opcinakupres.ba
• Information about the municipality of Kupres (Croatian)
• Last census before the Bosnian War in 1991 ( Memento from September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• The lift under construction at lift-world.info

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [VIDEO] Ivan's Break Guinness World Record in Kupres. Retrieved December 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 2325 Ivana na Kupresu ušlo u povijest. Retrieved December 7, 2018 (Croatian). 
3. ↑ http://www.seilbahntechnik.net/de/lifts/11013/datas.htm
4. ↑ http://www.seilbahntechnik.net/de/lifts/13063/datas.htm