Tržac

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Tržac
Тржац
Tržac (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Basic data
State : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity : Federation of BiH
Canton : Una-sana
Municipality : Cazin
Coordinates : 45 ° 0 ′  N , 15 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 59 ′ 51 ″  N , 15 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 266  m. i. J.
Residents : 5,000
Telephone code : +387 (0) 37
Postal code : 77220
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Tržac ( German  (outdated) Tehre , Terszacz , Terschaz ) is a place in the municipality of Cazin ( Canton Una-Sana ), in the far west of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

geography

Tržac is located directly on the border with Croatia , around 20 km north of Bihać , the capital of the canton of Una-Sana . The terrain is hilly and partly wooded. Below the village flows the Korana , a river that originates on the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, and its right arm Mutnica . The climate is temperate continental with cold winters and warm summers.

history

Tržac is mentioned for the first time in the 11th century as a settlement in the central part of the medieval Kingdom of Croatia . Since the 13th century, the place and the surrounding area (including the Tržac Castle ) were owned by members of the prominent Croatian aristocratic Frankopan family . A branch of this family even bore the name Tržački ("from Tržac"), as Bartol IX. Frankopan, one of the eight sons of the late Croatian Ban Nikola IV. Frankopan , received, among other things, the important Tržac rule in 1449 when his father's great fortune was divided. The Ottomans conquered the whole area at the end of the 16th century and pushed the Croats to the northwest.

population

Today the place has around 5,000 inhabitants (most of them are Muslim Bosniaks ), these represent a significant proportion of the total population of around 80,000 (latest estimates) in the densely populated municipality of Cazin .

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