Pelagićevo

Coordinates: 44°54′N 18°37′E / 44.90°N 18.61°E / 44.90; 18.61
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Pelagićevo
Пелагићево
UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code54

Pelagićevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Пелагићево) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Posavina geographical region. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,796 inhabitants, while the municipality has 5,220 inhabitants.

It was originally named Gornji Žabar, and was later renamed after

Vaso Pelagić, a representative of utopian socialism
in Serbia during the second half of the nineteenth century, born in the town in 1833.

History

The municipality was created after the Dayton Agreement from part of the pre-war municipality of Gradačac (the other part of the pre-war municipality is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).[1]

Demographics

Vaso Pelagić

Population

Population of settlements – Pelagićevo municipality
Settlements 1971. 1981. 1991. 2013.
Total 13,256 5,220
1 Blaževac 318
2 Donja Tramošnica 381
3 Gornja Tramošnica 347
4 Pelagićevo 3,398 3,214 3,069 2,529
5 Porebrice 344
6 Turić 293

Ethnic composition

Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo town
2013. 1991. 1981. 1971.
Total 2,529 (100,0%) 3,069 (100,0%) 3,214 (100,0%) 3,398 (100,0%)
Serbs 2,502 (98,93%) 2,968 (96,71%) 3,103 (96,55%) 3,340 (98,29%)
Croats 12 (0,474%) 16 (0,521%) 22 (0,685%) 36 (1,059%)
Others 10 (0,395%) 34 (1,108%) 31 (0,965%) 13 (0,383%)
Bosniaks 5 (0,198%) 4 (0,130%) 5 (0,156%) 6 (0,177%)
Yugoslavs 47 (1,531%) 47 (1,462%)
Macedonians 4 (0,124%) 2 (0,059%)
Albanians 2 (0,062%)
Montenegrins 1 (0,029%)
Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo municipality
2013. 1991.
Total 5,220 (100,0%) 13,256 (100,0%)
Serbs 3,330 (63,79%) 4,634 (34,96%)
Croats 1,850 (35,44%) 7,165 (54,05%)
Others 27 (0,517%) 721 (5,439%)
Bosniaks 13 (0,249%) 736 (5,552%)

See also

  • Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

  1. ^ "КРАТАК ИСТОРИЈАТ ПЕЛАГИЋЕВА И ПОСАВИНЕ". СРБИ У БИХ (in Serbian). 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2021-01-18.

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