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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Saturday 3:42 AM

Entity
  
Republika Srpska

Area
  
234 km²

Area code
  
53

Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Weather
  
3°C, Wind S at 5 km/h, 89% Humidity

Brod (Serbian Cyrillic: Брод; [brôːd]) is a town and municipality located on the south bank of the river Sava in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northwestern part of the Republika Srpska entity and the western part of the Posavina region.

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Map of Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Name

Prior to the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the town was known as Bosanski Brod. During the war the prefix "Bosanski" was replaced with "Srpski" due to the town being under Serb control. In May 2009, the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska removed any prefix from the name resulting in the name Brod. Today its official name is just Brod, without the prefix Bosanski or Srpski. The Croatian town of Slavonski Brod is situated on the opposite (northern) bank of the Sava forming a built-up area of more than 110,000 inhabitants.

The bridge over the Sava River at Brod was destroyed in the early hours of October 1992; it was rebuilt several years later after the hostilities ended.

Settlements

• Brod • Brusnica Mala • Brusnica Velika • Donja Barica • Donja Močila • Donja Vrela • Donje Kolibe • Donji Klakar • Gornja Barica • Gornja Močila • Gornja Vrela • Gornje Kolibe • Gornji Klakar • Grk • Koraće • Kričanovo • Kruščik • Liješće • Novo Selo • Sijekovac • Unka • Vinska i Zborište.

1971

30,115 total

  • Croats - 14,489 (48.11%)
  • Serbs - 11,273 (37.43%)
  • Bosniaks - 3,706 (12.30%)
  • Yugoslavs - 436 (1.44%)
  • others - 211 (0.72%)
  • 1991

    In 1991, the population of Bosanski Brod municipality was 34,148, including:

  • Croats (41%)
  • Serbs (33.8%)
  • Bosniaks (12.2%)
  • Yugoslavs (10.6%)
  • others (2.4%)
  • The urban part of the municipality had in 1991 a population of 14,045, including:

  • Serbs (31.39%)
  • Croats (29.17%)
  • Yugoslavs (19.3%)
  • Bosniaks (16.26%)
  • Urban settlements population:

    Source: [2].

    Serbs were majority in Brodsko Polje, Croats in Centar, Rit and Tulek, and Muslims by nationality in Mahala Skele.

    Administrative areas, 1991

    The Municipality of Brod according to population census from 1991, had twenty-three inhabited settlements, divided in twelve local communities:

    City local communities

  • MZ Brodsko Polje 1
  • MZ Brodsko Polje 2
  • MZ Brod - downtown
  • MZ Karađorđevo
  • MZ Rit
  • MZ Tulek
  • Rural communities

  • MZ Gornji Klakar
  • MZ Donji Klakar
  • MZ Gornje Kolibe
  • MZ Donje Kolibe
  • MZ Koraće
  • MZ Liješće
  • MZ Novo Selo
  • MZ Sijekovac
  • MZ Vinska
  • MZ Unka
  • MZ Gornja Vrela
  • MZ Grk
  • MZ Barica
  • Notable residents

  • Duško Trifunović, children's writer and poet
  • Sead Mašić, football player
  • Edin Mujčin, football player
  • Ljupko Petrović, football coach
  • Zdravko Zovko, handball coach
  • Ljiljana Molnar-Talajić, opera diva
  • Žarko Vidović, World War II partisan hero
  • Ivo Križanović, profesor Hrvatskog jezika
  • References

    Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina Wikipedia