Laktaši

Laktaši Лакташи
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Republika Srpska
Coordinates :	44 ° 54 '  N , 17 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 54 '26 "  N , 17 ° 18' 7"  E
Height :	125  m. i. J.
Area :	387  km²
Residents :	34,862 (2018)
Population density :	90 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	+387 (0) 51
Postal code :	78250
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Ranko Karapetrović ( SNSD )
Website :	www.laktasi.net

Street in the city center

Laktaši ( Serbian - Cyrillic Лакташи ) is a city and the associated municipality in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Administratively, it has belonged to the Republika Srpska since the Bosnian War .

geography

Laktaši is located around 19 kilometers north of Banja Luka on the Vrbas River . Laktaši has about 5,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the municipality of the same name ( Opština Laktaši ) with about 35,000 inhabitants.

Districts

Aleksandrovac, Aleksići, Bakinci, Boškovići, Bukovica, Čardačani, Ćetojevići, Devetina, Dovići, Drugovići, Glamočani, Jablan, Jakupovci, Jaružani, Kadinjani, Kobatovci, Koljubatani, Kosijerovo, Krnetiškovi, Krnetijani , Milosavci, Miloševci, Mrčevci, Papažani, Petoševci, Rajčevci, Riječani, Slatina, Šeškovci, Šušnjari, Trn and Veliko Blaško.

Trn was the largest town in the municipality as early as 1991 and, as the immediate suburb of Banja Luka, was hit by a building boom in the 2000s. Numerous new residential and commercial buildings were built.

Demographics

According to the 1971 census, Laktaši had 25,997 people, including:

• 21,986 Serbs (84.57%)
• 2,731 Croatians (10.50%)
• 341 Bosniaks (1.14%)
• 84 Yugoslavs (0.32%)
• 855 other (3.47%)

According to the 1991 census, Laktaši had 29,910 people, of whom

• 24,438 Serbs (81.70%)
• 2,584 Croatians (8.63%)
• 1,491 Yugoslavs (4.98%)
• 506 Bosniaks (1.69%)
• and 891 (3.00%) were others.

Today almost exclusively Serbs live in the Opština Laktaši (95.7%).

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Laktaši

Sports

The football club FK Laktaši played in the Premijer Liga , the top division in the country , until the 2009/10 season . The basketball club KK Igokea is a multiple champion of the Bosnian league and a regular participant in the regional Adriatic basketball league (ABA league).

traffic

Highway

From 2004, construction began on the highway from Banja Luka towards Gradiška and Croatia . The first section from Banja Luka to the Laktaš district of Mahovljani, in which the Banja Luka airfield is located, was originally supposed to be completed in September 2006, the rest of the section by the end of 2008. The construction of the 45 km long motorway should cost around 71 million KM ( 36 million € ). The construction progress has been delayed again and again, among other things due to the construction of the tunnel in the Klašnice district and the controversial tunnel in the center of Laktaši. Since the completion of the section that bypasses Laktaši, the villages along the Gradiška – Banja Luka route and the town of Laktaši itself have been relieved of through traffic. Another relief is to take place with the opening of the new motorway border crossing to Croatia.

Personalities

• Milorad Dodik , President of the Republika Srpska; born in Laktaši in 1959

Web links

Commons : Laktaši  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality ( Serbo-Croatian / English )
• Tourism site about Laktaši

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://rzs.rs.ba/front/article/3630/ Updated population figures for 2018 from the Institute for Statistics of the Republika Srpska. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
2. ↑ 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. 61
3. ↑ Putevi RS: Autoput Gradiška - Banja Luka ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2010 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.