Podrinje
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Podrinje (
History
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Between 1918 and 1922, Podrinje District, with its seat in
In 1941 Yugoslav Partisans liberated the large western part of the German occupied territory. In this territory they proclaimed the Republic of Užice (Uzička Republika) with Užice city as the centre of the Republic. This large free territory was an island of freedom in Nazi occupied Europe. The Republic of Užice was short-lived. German troops occupied the territory again, while the majority of Partisan forces escaped towards Bosnia.[citation needed] During the WWII Genocide of Serbs by the Croatian fascist Ustaše regime, many Serbs were executed along the Drina Valley for months, especially near Višegrad.[1] Jure Francetić's Black Legion killed thousands of defenceless Bosnian Serb civilians and threw their bodies into the Drina river.[2]
When the Bosnian War broke out in 1992, the Drina Valley became the focus of a bitter campaign of ethnic cleansing by Army of Republika Srpska forces[3] which eventually culminated in the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995.
According to the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Centre (RDC/IDC) Bosnian Atlas of the Dead Project, the Podrinje was the area of Bosnia which suffered the highest number of casualties. In 2007, Mirsad Tokaca, the RDC/IDC's director, reported that 28,666 deaths of a total of 97,207 recorded by June 2007, had occurred in the Podrinje.[4]
Today, one of the cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina is known as
Towns in Podrinje
Cities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska and Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde):
Cities and towns in Serbia (Mačva District and Zlatibor District):
See also
- Bosnian-Podrinje Canton
- Geographical regions in Serbia
- Drina Banovina
- Drina
- Posavina
References
- S2CID 162231741.
- ISBN 978-1-84511-697-2.
- ^ Bećir Bogilović's evidence at Orić trial, 21 March 2005, ICTY, p. 6367 [1], icty.org; retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ Nidzara Ahmetasević. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network "JUSTICE REPORT: Bosnia's Book of the Dead", 21 June 2007; retrieved 31 July 2010.