Derventa (Cyrillic: Дервента) is a town and municipality in the northern part of entity Republika Srpska which is part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located just northwest of Doboj, in the Posavina region.
Geography
The Derventa municipality borders with Bosanski Brod, Modriča, Doboj, Prnjavor and Srbac, as well as Croatia across the Sava river. Derventa has a suburb part of town caled Derventski Lug originally but refugees from Krajina (Bosanski Petrovac, Sanski Most,Drvar...), who have come to local authority positions named Derventski Lug just Lug. The original name is Derventski Lug, this part of town becoming urban and in a few years Derventski Lug will become city zone. It has an area of 517 km2 (200 sq mi) and includes 57 villages in addition to the actual town of Derventa.
Demographics
1971
56.141 total
- Croats - 25.228 (44,93%)
- Serbs - 23.124 (41,18%)
- Muslims - 6.548 (11,66%)
- Yugoslavs - 575 (1,02%)
- Others - 666 (1,21%)
1991
Prior to the war in Bosnia (1992-1995), the municipality of Derventa had a population of around 57,000.
The 1991 census recorded 56,328 residents in the municipality, including:
The town of Derventa itself had 17,451 residents, including:
- 32% Muslims by nationality
- 25% Croats
- 25% Serbs
- 15% Yugoslavs
- 3% others
Settlements:
- Settlement: Mus Srbs Croats Yugos Others Sum M% S% C% Y% O%
- Derventa-1 3284 2689 2613 1644 417 10647 31% 25% 25% 15% 4%
- Derventa-3 421 582 432 308 45 1788 24% 33% 24% 17% 3%
- Potocani 534 244 170 130 68 1146 47% 21% 15% 11% 6%
- Ukrina 1258 1002 1000 489 121 3870 33% 26% 26% 13% 3%
Source[3].
Current population
In 2006, the majority of inhabitants from the municipality were ethnic Serbs.
The post-war total population of the city is estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000, of which:
People from Derventa
- Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian football player
- Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
- Mile Kitić, Serbian folk singer
- Miroslav Pejić, Croatian football player
- Mario Tokić, Croatian football player
- Ivica Vrdoljak, Croatian football player (Parents from Derventa-village Kuljenovci)
- Toni Tomas, Bosnian-Serbocroat Informatic computer operator
- Izet Đuzel, Sculptor
- Sulejman Medenčević, Photografer
- Abaz Arslanagić, Legendary handball player/coach
- Narcis Kantardžić, Painter
- Tiho Lesić, Journalist
- Alojz Benac, PhD. Archeology
- Alaga Gagić, Singer
- Krunoslav Šarić, Actor
- Ilija Begić, Folk singer
- Marko Begić, Folk singer
- Azemina Grbić, Folk singer
- Goran Čačija, Sport psychologist, BJJ-phenom, son of Ljerka & Anto Čačija
- Sasa Bogdan, artist
See also
External links
References
- ^ United Nations Development Programme: [1]
Coordinates: 44°59′N, 17°54′E
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