Opština

Opština ( Cyrillic Општина, plural: Opštine / Општине ) is the Serbian , Macedonian and Montenegrin name for the local administrative unit in the countries of Serbia , Montenegro , Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia . The Croatian and Bosnian variant of the term is Općina (plural: općine). The term Opština can best be translated into German with the term municipality or large municipality . The opštine are usually much larger than large German communities. The municipalities of Serbia often have an area of ​​more than 500, sometimes more than 1000 square kilometers, and are therefore in some cases comparable with German districts . According to the Law on the Territorial Organization of the Republic of Serbia , published in 2007, Opštine should generally have at least 10,000 inhabitants.

The opštine usually consist of a large number of localities. In Serbia, the average number is around 40, with the city of Leskovac for example having a total of 144 settlements. Only the city of Sremski Karlovci consists of only one single settlement. Usually the municipality bears the name of the largest town or town in terms of inhabitants.

The organs of an opština are the municipal assembly (Serbian: Скупштина општине / Skupština opštine ) and the mayor (Serbian председник општине / predsednik opštine = president of the municipality ).

See also : List of Municipalities in Serbia , List of Municipalities in Montenegro and List of Municipalities in Kosovo

In North Macedonia , too , the municipalities are called Opština (plural: Општини / Opštini ). The Albanian-speaking equivalent in Kosovo is Komuna (undefined / certain Komunë / Komuna ; plural Komunat ). The Turkish-speaking Belediye (a place name followed by the possessive suffix Belediyesi ).

See also : List of Opštini in North Macedonia

history

In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , after the number had been reduced by the amalgamation of small communities by 1965, there were a total of 471 communities (as of 1989), which were referred to as Opština or Općina (Croatia) or Občina ( Slovenia ). While some successor states have retained the previous municipality division, z. B. Macedonia in a larger number of small communities newly created and introduced as a master device regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina of were in the range Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina , the large municipalities Canton assigned.

See also

• Municipality (Yugoslavia and successor states)
• “Local level” in the article Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Заkон о територијалној организацији Републике Србије on the website of the Serbian Parliament, accessed on November 30, 2010 ( Memento of May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )