Usora (municipality)

Usora
Усора

Basic data

State :

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Entity :

Federation of BiH

Canton :

Zenica-Doboj

Coordinates :

44 ° 41 ′ N , 18 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 44 ° 41 ′ 20 ″ N , 18 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E

Height :

Residents :

7,568 (2013)

Telephone code :

+387 (0) 32

Postal code :

74230

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Mayor :

Zvonimir Anđelić ( HDZ BiH )

Postal address :

Sivša bb
74230 Usora

Website :

www.usora.com

Usora ( Cyrillic Усора ) is a large municipality ( Općina ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded in 1998 with about 7,500 inhabitants. It is located in central Bosnia in the Zenica-Doboj canton of the Federation and is mostly populated by Croats . Usora is located on the river of the same name , which flows into the Bosna river just before the town of Doboj .

history

The area of today's Usora municipality was already inhabited in the Paleolithic . Đuro Basler and Zdravko Marić discovered the evidence in the village of Makljenovac .

The Usora and Soli area was entirely in the ancient Roman province of Pannonia . After that these areas belonged to the state of Braslav and Ljudevit Posavski.

The banovina usora and solos around 1412

The historical Banschaft Usora und Soli encompassed almost all of northeastern Bosnia. It came to Bosnia (or the Old Bosnian Kingdom ) during the time of the first Bosnian Ban Borić , even before 1163. It is believed that Ban Borić Usora and Soli as a gift from the Hungarian - Croatian king for his loyalty in the war against the Byzantine emperor Manuel I. received. In the period that followed, Usora and Soli switched several times between Bosnian and Hungarian-Croatian rule.

Usora has remained a Roman Catholic from Christianization until today . Even when the majority of the Bosnian nobility gave up the Catholic faith in 1236, Usoras Knez Sebislav stayed , according to a letter from Pope Gregory IX. from August 8, 1236 probably a grandson of Kulin Ban, "like a lily amidst thorns" Catholic.

The Usora area was united in the extended Usora and Soli area from 1272 under Ban Henrik Gesinovac (Banovina). From 1326 the Banovina had risen to the voivodeship under the Bilosevic family and from 1399 under the Zlatonosovic family . The last voivode was Tvrtko Stancic. After that Usora fell under Turkish rule around 1520 . Islamization took place in parts of the area ; these are no longer part of Usora today.

Before the Bosnian War , the area of today's municipality, which is still inhabited by Croats, was administratively divided into two neighboring municipalities: The municipality of Doboj , which became part of the Republika Srpska with the Bosnian War , and the mostly Bosniak-populated municipality of Tešanj . During the Bosnian War the area was successfully defended against Serbian attacks by the 110th Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council . As a Croatian enclave in the midst of Serbian and Bosniak settlement areas, Usora was raised to an independent municipality as a result of the reorganization of Bosnia after the war.

Localities

The municipality of Usora includes the localities of Alibegovci , Bejici , Omanjska , Sivsa , Srednja Omanjska , Ularice and parts of the localities Makljenovac , Novi Miljanovci (Filipovici i Kovcici), Žabljak and Tesanjka (Section 2, Article 10 of the Constitutional Act from 1998).

The seat of the municipality Usora is the place Sivša , where a Croatian consulate for this region is set up.

Web links

Usora Municipality (Croatian)
further information about Usora (Croatian)
Law for the Constitution of New Communities 1998 (Bosnian)
Map with delimitation of the municipal area