Sokolac

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Sokolac
Соколац

Sokolac coat of arms

Sokolac (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Basic data
State : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity : Republika Srpska
Coordinates : 43 ° 56 '  N , 18 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 56 '14 "  N , 18 ° 47' 54"  E
Height : 870  m. i. J.
Area : 729  km²
Residents : 11,150 (2018)
Population density : 15 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : +387 (0) 57
Postal code : 71350
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type: Town
Mayor : Milovan Bjelica ( SDS )
Website :
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Center of Sokolac

Sokolac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Соколац ) is a small town and the associated community in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina . It belongs to the Republika Srpska , one of two entities of the Southeast European state. The sparsely populated municipality of Sokolac belongs to the urban area of Istočno Sarajevo .

geography

The municipality of Sokolac is located on the Glasinac plateau between 700 and 1450 m altitude about 30 km east of Sarajevo . In the west, the municipality extends as far as the ridge of the Romanija Mountains, in the east the Devetak borders the municipality. Bioštica , the left source river of the Krivaja, rises 6 km north of the town of Sokolac near the settlement Turkovići .

The municipality is bounded by the municipalities of Han Pijesak in the northeast, Rogatica in the southeast, Pale and Istočni Stari Grad in the south and Ilijaš and Olovo (both federation ) in the west. Since the Bosnian War , the entity border to the federation has formed the western border of the municipality.

Community structure

88 settlements belong to the municipality, which are assigned to the 10 local communities Bjelosavljevići, Čavarine, Kaljina, Knežina, Košutica, Podromanija, Sokolac, Sokolovići, Šahbegovići and Žljebovi.

population

At the 1991 census, the community had 14,883 inhabitants. Of these, 10,195 (68.5%) described themselves as Serbs , 4493 (30.18%) as Bosniaks and 195 (1.31%) as members of other ethnic groups.

At that time, 6092 people lived in the town of Sokolac itself. Of these, 5712 (93.76%) were Serbs. Village communities with a Muslim majority were Kaljina (65.57%), Knežina (72.96%), Šahbegovići (63.5%) and Žljebovi (60.14%). During the Bosnian War, almost all Bosniak residents were expelled from the community.

history

During the Second World War , the Yugoslav partisans maintained a strategically important airfield near Sokolac. In 1941 the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Prophet Elias , built from 1876 to 1882, was seriously destroyed by the German armed forces .

During the Bosnian War , Sokolac was the location of a VRS command bunker and an operations center of the East Bosnian Corps (also Sarajevo-Romanija Corps ). The main SA-6 anti-aircraft position of the Bosnian Serbs was also in Sokolac. It was on 30 August 1995 by a NATO - bombing destroyed. Sokolac itself suffered hardly any war damage, as it was under the control of the VRS for the whole time. However, ethnic cleansing has affected several Muslim settlements in the community . Organized rapes of Muslim women are said to have occurred in the village from May to September 1992.

During and shortly after the war, Sokolac was the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Metropolitan Dabrobosnia, before he returned to the Cathedral of the Nativity in Sarajevo .

Italian EUFOR soldiers are stationed in Sokolac .

Sports

The local football club FK Glasinac Sokolac played in the Bosnian first division from 1993 to 2004 . The club currently plays in the third division of Bosnia .

economy

The largest economic sectors are forestry and the wood processing industry.

traffic

On the main road 19 Sokolac with Sarajevo (42 km) and Vlasenica (50 km) or Zvornik connected (102 km). In the municipality of Podromanija (4 km west of Sokolac) the M19.3 branches off , which leads via Rogatica to Višegrad .

There is no railway connection.

Personalities

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  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. ↑ James Gow : The Serbian project and its adversaries , C. Hurst & Co., 2003, p. 195.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Stiglmayer: Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina , University of Nebraska Press 1994, p. 131.

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