Zvornik
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| State : | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Entity : | Republika Srpska | ||
| Municipality : | Zvornik | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 23 ' N , 19 ° 6' E | ||
| Height : | 146 m. i. J. | ||
| Residents : | 12,674 (2013) | ||
| Telephone code : | +387 (0) 56 | ||
| Postal code : | 75 404 | ||
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Zvornik ( Cyrillic Зворник ) is a city in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative seat of Opština Zvornik . The city lies on the territory of the Republika Srpska on the left bank of the Drina , which forms the border with Serbia here, south of Bijeljina . South of the city is the dammed Zvorniksee .
The place itself had about 13,000 inhabitants in 2013.
history
Zvornik was first mentioned in a document around 1410. In 1433 Zvornik Castle came into the possession of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković , who had a donjon built in the upper part of the fortress . Around 1460, the Ottomans conquered the place and built the lower part of the fortress, which had strong walls and 3 towers on the Drina. The lower fortress was badly damaged in later battles between Austrians, Hungarians and Ottomans. The Ottoman influences can still be clearly seen in some of the buildings from that time.
In 1538 the Franciscan monastery in Zvornik was destroyed and the church was converted into a mosque. They had to leave this monastery in 1541 and settled Gradovrh (near today's Tuzla ) together with the Franciscans from Gornja Tuzla .
Until 1918 Zvornik belonged to Austria-Hungary and then came to Yugoslavia as part of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
At the beginning of the Bosnian War , the mayor was forced by representatives of the Serbian Democratic Party of Radovan Karadžić to disarm his police. Soon afterwards, Serbian irregulars and elite Red Berets units from Serbia began attacking the city. The city was also hit by artillery stationed on the Serbian bank of the Drina.
Zvornik Castle
Austro-Hungarian military map
Serbian Orthodox Church
Old iron bridge
population
Today most of the residents call themselves Serbs. During the Bosnian War , the Bosniaks were driven from both the city and the community. Mass graves from this period are repeatedly found in and around Zvornik . In return, Serbian refugees were resettled - also to consolidate the “new conditions” . Nevertheless, a relatively large number of the Bosniaks have now returned to Zvornik.
Sports
The football club FK Drina Zvornik is known and successful nationwide .
sons and daughters of the town
- Nada Obrić (* 1948), singer
- Samir Muratović (* 1976), football player
- Seka Aleksić (* 1981), singer
- Rade Đokić (* 1983), football player
- Sejad Salihović (* 1984 in the Gornji Šepak district), football player
- Mersudin Jukić (* 1984), football player
- Veroljub Salatić (* 1985), football player
- Denis Omerbegović (* 1986), football player
- Said Husejinović (* 1988), football player
- Miroslav Stevanović (* 1990), football player
- Ermin Bičakčić (* 1990), football player
- Edin Hasanović (* 1992), actor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lazar Trifunović: Art Monuments in Yugoslavia. Volume 2. Edition Leipzig 1981.
- ↑ Bosna Srebrena: Tuzla - samostan i župa sv. Petra apostola. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 22, 2017 (hr-HR). 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.
- ↑ According to information from Jose Maria Mendiluce, UNHCR; In: Fratricidal War in Yugoslavia , TV documentary
- ↑ a b c d Wendy Larner and William Walters (eds.): Global governmentality: governing international spaces . London: Routledge, 2004, p. 151 ff.
