Bosansko Grahovo
Босанско Грахово | |
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Town and municipality | |
 Bosansko Grahovo | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of the Municipality of Bosansko Grahovo within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
  Bosansko Grahovo Location of Bosansko Grahovo within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Coordinates: 44°10′46″N 16°21′52″E / 44.17944°N 16.36444°E | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Canton | Canton 10 |
| Geographical region | Bosanska Krajina |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal Council |
| • Municipal president | Uroš Đuran (SNSD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 780 km2 (300 sq mi) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 2,449 |
| • Density | 3.1/km2 (8.1/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Grahovian |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Area code | +387 34 |
| Website | www |
Bosansko Grahovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Босанско Грахово) or simply Grahovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Грахово) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in western Bosnia and Herzegovina along the border with Croatia.
History
Gavrilo Princip, the main perpetrator of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, was born in the village of Obljaj located just east of Bosansko Grahovo.
From 1929 to 1941, Bosansko Grahovo was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
World War II
During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, Bosansko Grahovo was a part of the Axis puppet state Independent State of Croatia (NDH). Administratively, it belonged to the Grand Parish of Krbava and Psat, established on 16 June 1941. The seat of the Parish was in Bihać. The Kotar of Bosansko Grahovo included the town of Bosansko Grahovo, Crni Lug, Drvar and Trubar. On 1 January 1942, the Kotar of Bosansko Grahovo was transferred to the Grand Prish of Bribir and Sidraga.
In the Drvar uprising Grahovo was captured by the Serb rebels commanded by Branko Bogunović.[1] Bogunović joined Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland and in September 1941 he was appointed as commander of the Chetnik Regiment "Gavrilo Princip" from Grahovo. One hundred Croat civilians were murdered by the Chetniks during the Bosansko Grahovo massacre.
Bosnian War
During the Bosnian War, the town was held by Bosnian Serb forces. The Croatian Army captured the city in July 1995, during Operation Summer '95.[2] The offensive displaced a large number of Serb refugees. After the war, the Serb civilians returned, and today they constitute the majority of the population in the municipality.[3] However, nowadays the population is much smaller, having declined from 9,000 to about 2,500.
Settlements
- Bastasi
- Bosansko Grahovo
- Crnac
- Crni Lug
- Donje Peulje
- Donji Kazanci
- Donji Tiškovac
- Duler
- Gornje Peulje
- Gornji Kazanci
- Grkovci
- Isjek
- Jaruga
- Kesići
- Korita
- Luka
- Maleševci
- Malo Tičevo
- Marinkovci
- Mračaj
- Nuglašica
- Obljaj
- Pečenci
- Peći
- Preodac
- Pržine
- Radlovići
- Resanovci
- Stožišta
- Ugarci
- Uništa
- Veliko Tičevo
- Vidovići
- Zaseok
- Zebe
Demographics
Population
| Population of settlements – Bosansko Grahovo municipality | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | 1961. | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | |
| Total | 10,196 | 10,555 | 9,032 | 8,311 | 3,091 | |
| 1 | Bosansko Grahovo | 696 | 1,229 | 1,602 | 2,096 | 651 |
| 2 | Peći | 256 | 203 | |||
Ethnic composition
| Ethnic composition – Bosansko Grahovo town | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1991 | 1981 | 1971 | 1961 | |||
| Total | 651 (100.0%) | 2,096 (100.0%) | 1,602 (100.0%) | 1,229 (100.0%) | 696 (100.0%) | ||
| Serbs | 600 (92.17%) | 1,999 (95.37%) | 1,358 (84.77%) | 1,167 (94.96%) | 670 (96.26%) | ||
| Croats | 45 (6.912%) | 14 (0.668%) | 26 (1.623%) | 25 (2.034%) | 14 (2.011%) | ||
| Others | 6 (0.922%) | 16 (0.763%) | 3 (0.187%) | 8 (0.651%) | 3 (0.431%) | ||
| Yugoslavs | 61 (2.910%) | 193 (12.050%) | 18 (1.465%) | 4 (0.575%) | |||
| Muslims/Bosniaks | 6 (0.286%) | 4 (0.250%) | 11 (0.895%) | ||||
| Montenegrins | 12 (0.749%) | 5 (0.718%) | |||||
| Albanians | 6 (0.375%) | ||||||
| Ethnic composition – Bosansko Grahovo municipality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1991 | 1981 | 1971 | 1961 | |||
| Total | 2,449 (100.0%) | 8,311 (100.0%) | 9,032 (100.0%) | 10,555 (100.0%) | 10,196 (100.0%) | ||
| Serbs | 2,028 (82.81%) | 7,888 (94.91%) | 7,739 (85.68%) | 10,100 (95.69%) | 9,787 (95.99%) | ||
| Croats | 393 (16.050%) | 226 (2.719%) | 264 (2.923%) | 364 (3.449%) | 368 (3.609%) | ||
| Others | 22 (0.898%) | 50 (0.602%) | 25 (0.277%) | 40 (0.379%) | 6 (0.059%) | ||
| Muslims/Bosniaks | 6 (0.245%) | 12 (0.144%) | 5 (0.055%) | 14 (0.133%) | 2 (0.020%) | ||
| Yugoslavs | 135 (1.624%) | 978 (10.830%) | 37 (0.351%) | 22 (0.216%) | |||
| Montenegrins | 15 (0.166%) | 11 (0.108%) | |||||
| Albanians | 6 (0.066%) | ||||||
Politics
The executive branch is the municipal president, while the legislative branch is the municipal council. The current municipal president is Uroš Đuran from the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD). The municipal council consists of 13 members.
| Political parties | Councilors | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| SNS FBiH | 4 / 13 | |
| SNSD | 4 / 13 | |
| SNS | 1 / 13 | |
| SP | 1 / 13 | |
| SDS | 1 / 13 | |
| DNS | 1 / 13 | |
| HDZ BiH | 1 / 13 | |
Notable people
- Dragan Raca, basketball coach
- Đuro Pucar, politician
- Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
- Milan Galić, footballer
References
- ↑ (Plećaš & Dimitrijević 2004, p. 267):"Устаници у западној Босни, под вођством Мане Роквића, заузели су Дрвар, а Брана Богуновић је са својима заузео Босанско Грахово"
- ↑ Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Russian and European Analysis (2002). Balkan Battlegrounds: A Military History of the Yugoslav Conflict, 1990–1995. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency. p. 366. ISBN 9780160664724. OCLC 50396958.
- ↑ "Srbi u Grahovu ni pisma ne nose".
Sources
- Plećaš, Neđeljko; Dimitrijević, Bojan (2004). Ratne godine. Institut za savremenu istoriju. ISBN 9788674030912.
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