Vukosavlje

Vukosavlje Вукосавље
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Republika Srpska
Coordinates :	44 ° 59 '  N , 18 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 58 '57 "  N , 18 ° 16' 56"  E
Height :	48  m. i. J.
Area :	86.83  km²
Residents :	4,331 (2018)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	+387 (0) (+387) 53
Postal code :	74470
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Elvir Hadžiomerović ( SDA )
Website :	vukosavlje.gov.ba

Vukosavlje ( Serbian - Cyrillic Вукосавље ) is a place and the associated municipality (opština) in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina . It is located on the left bank of the Bosna at the transition from the Posavina to the Bosnian Central Mountains and consists of former parts of the neighboring municipality of Modriča and parts of Odžak that were separated during the Bosnian War by the entity border . Vukosavlje is part of the Republika Srpska .

geography

Vukosavlje is located northwest of Modriča and southwest of Odžak. The highest point in the municipality is at 368  m , while the banks of the Bosna are only 48  m .

The municipality includes the municipality parts Gnionica, Jakeš, Jezero, Jošavica, Kaluđer, Modrički Lug, Novo Selo and Pećnik as well as smaller parts of Srnava, Ada, Potočani and Vrbovac.

history

The districts of today's municipality Vukosavlje belonged to the union municipalities Modriča (Jakeš, Pećnik, Modrički Lug) and Odžak (Gnionica, Jošavica, Jezero) until the Bosnian War . The Vukosavlje settlement itself is a new establishment. The community was formally founded on September 8, 1996 as Srpski Odžak , but had to discard this name after a decision by the Bosnian Constitutional Court that banned ethnic references in place names.

population

At the 2013 census, the community had 4,667 inhabitants. Of these, 46.7% described themselves as Bosniaks , 32.5% as Serbs and 16.6% as Croatians . This made Vukosavlje the municipality in the Republika Srpska with the lowest Serbian population. Before the war, only Gnionica and Jošavica had a Serb majority. In contrast, Jakeš and Modrički Lug were mostly inhabited by Bosniaks and Novo Selo and Pećnik almost exclusively by Croats.

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. 63
3. ↑ Results of the 1991 census by municipalities and localities ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 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. 

Web links

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