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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Municipality
  
Bratunac

Population
  
357 (1991)

Entity
  
Republika Srpska

Local time
  
Saturday 6:36 AM

Kravica

Weather
  
3°C, Wind S at 5 km/h, 73% Humidity

Bosnia herzegovina waterfalls kravica


Kravica (Serbian Cyrillic: Кравица) is a village in the Bratunac municipality near Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, close to the border with Serbia. It is inhabited predominantly by ethnic Serbs.

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Map of Kravica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and in 1995 was the place of major killings during the Srebrenica massacre.

History

In 1971 there was a shootout between men from Kravica and men from Muslim-inhabited Konjević Polje.

In 1991, it was reported that neighbouring Serb-inhabited Kravica and Muslim-inhabited Glogova "had bad blood".

Bosnian War

The village was attacked on 7 January (Serbian Christmas) 1993 by ARBiH forces under Naser Orić from the Srebrenica enclave under the control of the ARBiH. Eleven civilians were killed and most of the houses were damaged.

Men from Kravica participated in the Srebrenica massacre.

Demographics

In 1991, it had a population of 357, of whom 353 were declared as Serbs, with no declared Bosniaks, Croats or Yugoslavs.

References

Kravica Wikipedia