Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Šamac
Шамац | |
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UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Area code | 54 |
Website | www |
Šamac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шамац, pronounced [ʃâmat͡s]),[1] formerly Bosanski Šamac (Serbian Cyrillic: Босански Шамац) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are also small, uninhabited, parts located in the municipalities of Odžak[2] and Domaljevac-Šamac, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3]
As of 2013, the town has a population of 5,390 inhabitants, while the municipality has 17,273 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of the
History
The modern town was founded by Muslim Bosnian refugees expelled from the
In the early stages of the
The town lies on an important strategic position in
Settlements
Aside from the town of Šamac, the municipality includes the following settlements:
Demographics
Population
Population of settlements – Šamac municipality | ||||||||
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1948. | 1953. | 1961. | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | ||
Total | 37,512 | 44,269 | 31,374 | 32,320 | 32,960 | 17,273 | ||
1 | Batkuša | 924 | 625 | |||||
2 | Brvnik | 609 | 253 | |||||
3 | Crkvina | 1,704 | 1,223 | |||||
4 | Donja Slatina | 623 | 471 | |||||
5 | Donji Hasić | 1,029 | 207 | |||||
6 | Gajevi | 626 | 438 | |||||
7 | Gornja Slatina | 1,361 | 903 | |||||
8 | Gornji Hasić | 1,048 | 427 | |||||
9 | Grebnice | 443 | ||||||
10 | Kornica | 830 | 302 | |||||
11 | Kruškovo Polje | 706 | 588 | |||||
12 | Lugovi | 422 | ||||||
13 | Novo Selo | 1,095 | 419 | |||||
14 | Obudovac | 3,199 | 2,421 | |||||
15 | Pisari | 608 | 436 | |||||
16 | Šamac | 4,877 | 5,605 | 6,239 | 5,390 | |||
17 | Škarić | 298 | 273 | |||||
18 | Srednja Slatina | 1,277 | 519 | |||||
19 | Tišina | 2,032 | 890 | |||||
20 | Zasavica | 558 | 339 |
Ethnic composition
Ethnic composition – Šamac town | |||||||
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2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
Total | 5,390 (100%) | 6,239 (100%) | 5,605 (100%) | 4,877 (100%) | |||
Serbs | 3,449 (67.19%) | 1,755 (28.13%) | 1,342 (23.94%) | 1,500 (30.76%) | |||
Bosniaks | 1,253 (24.41%) | 2,178 (34.91%) | 1,697 (30.28%) | 2,163 (44.35%) | |||
Croats | 227 (4.42%) | 827 (13.26%) | 687 (12.26%) | 726 (14.89%) | |||
Others | 204 (3.97%) | 284 (4.55%) | 61 (1.08%) | 38 (0.77%) | |||
Yugoslavs | 1 195 (19.15%) | 1 774 (31.65%) | 429 (8.79%) | ||||
Albanians | 22 (0.393%) | 3 (0.062%) | |||||
Montenegrins | 13 (0.232%) | 8 (0.164%) | |||||
Slovenes | 5 (0.089%) | 3 (0.062%) | |||||
Hungarians | 4 (0.071%) | 4 (0.082%) | |||||
Macedonians | 3 (0.062%) |
Ethnic composition – Šamac municipality | |||||||
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2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
Total | 17,273 (100%) | 32,960 (100%) | 32,320 (100%) | 31,374 (100%) | |||
Serbs | 13,256 (76,74%) | 13,628 (41,35%) | 13,328 (41,24%) | 14,230 (45,36%) | |||
Croats | 2,426 (14.05%) | 14,731 (44.69%) | 14,327 (44.33%) | 14,336 (45.69%) | |||
Bosniaks | 1,265 (7.324%) | 2,233 (6.775%) | 1,725 (5.337%) | 2,192 (6.987%) | |||
Others | 326 (1.887%) | 613 (1.860%) | 262 (0.811%) | 88 (0.28%) | |||
Yugoslavs | 1,755 (5.32%) | 2 601 (8.05%) | 481 (1.53%) | ||||
Montenegrins | 33 (0.10%) | 25 (0.08%) | |||||
Montenegrins | 27 (0.08%) | 8 (0.02%) | |||||
Hungarians | 7 (0.022%) | 4 (0.013%) | |||||
Slovenes | 6 (0.019%) | 6 (0.019%) | |||||
Macedonians | 4 (0.012%) | 4 (0.013%) |
Economy
The following table gives a preview of total number of registered employed people per their core activity (as of 2016):[9]
Activity | Total |
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Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 84 |
Mining and quarrying | 40 |
Manufacturing | 426 |
Distribution of power, gas, steam and air-conditioning | 31 |
Distribution of water and water waste management | 19 |
Construction | 5 |
Wholesale and retail, repair | 417 |
Transportation and storage | 182 |
Hotels and restaurants | 117 |
Information and communication | 6 |
Finance and insurance | 20 |
Real estate activities | - |
Professional, scientific and technical activities | 57 |
Administrative and support services | 7 |
Public administration and defence | 176 |
Education | 248 |
Healthcare and social work | 122 |
Art, entertainment and recreation | 8 |
Other service activities | 7 |
Total | 1,972 |
Sport
The local football club, FK Borac Šamac, plays in the third tier-Second League of the Republika Srpska.
Notable people
- Milica Babić-Jovanović (1909–1968), costume designer at the Serbian National Theatre
- Ljubo Miloš (1919–1948), Croatian World War II official and concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
- Alija Izetbegović (1925–2003), first President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Zoran Đinđić (1952–2003), former prime minister of Serbia
- Srebrenko Repčić (b. 1954), former football player
- Predrag Nikolić (b. 1960), chess Grand Master
- Stevo Nikolić (b. 1984), footballer
- Mario Mandžukić (b. 1986), footballer
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Mangold (2005:212)
- ^ "Naseljena Mjesta 1991/2013" (in Bosnian). Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
- ^ "Naseljena Mjesta 1991/2013" (in Bosnian). Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
- ^ Krpic, Amir. The 1862 Kanlica Conference and Demographic Changes in Northeast Bosnia in the 1860s (PDF).
- ^ https://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/bosnia/ War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina: Bosanski Samac — Six War Criminals Named by Victims of “Ethnic Cleansing”, Human Rights Watch, April 1994
- Time magazine, May 13, 1996
- ^ http://www.asil.org/ilib/ilib0622.htm#j3 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (Trial Chamber II): Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic, Mirolsav Tadic and Simo Zadic (October 17, 2003) Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "RS bez "bosanskih" gradova". www.slobodnaevropa.org.
- ^ "Cities and Municipalities of Republika Srpska 2017" (PDF). rzs.rs.ba (in Serbian). December 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
References
- Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
- Mangold, Max (2005), Das Aussprachewörterbuch, Duden, ISBN 9783411040667