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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area code
  
53

Municipality
  
Petrovo

Local time
  
Wednesday 4:20 PM

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Petrovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Петрово) is a town and relatively young municipality located in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of the Republika Srpska entity. The municipality was formed from parts of the pre-war municipalities of Gračanica and Lukavac (the other parts of the pre-war municipalities are now in the other Bosnian entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Contents

Map of Petrovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Geography

The municipality is close to Doboj just a halfway between Doboj and Tuzla. It is located on the mountain Ozren.

History

The municipality was formed by Bosnian Serb authorities during the war. Bosnian government never recognised this decision and officially municipality was created after the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Bosnian serb authorities also changed the name of the municipality to Petrovo from Bosansko Petrovo Selo. The municipality existed before, however, was dismantled in the 1960s. It belonged to Gračanica and Lukavac as well.

Town of Bosansko Petrovo Selo (Petrovo) itself

total: 2,919

  • Serbs - 2,695 (92.32%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 70 (2.39%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 54 (1.84%)
  • Croats - 18 (0.61%)
  • others and unknown - 82 (2.80%)

    • Other villages

    Kakmuž

    total: 2,398

  • Serbs - 2,252 (93.91%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 42 (1.75%)
  • Croats - 8 (0.33%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 4 (0.17%)
  • others and unknown - 92 (3.84%)
    • Karanovac

    total: 1,178

  • Serbs - 1,112 (94.40%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 28 (2.38%)
  • Croats - 12 (1.02%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 6 (0.51%)
  • others and unknown - 20 (1.70%)
    • Krtova

    total: 1,121

  • Serbs - 1,097 (97.86%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 18 (1.61%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 2 (0.18%)
  • Croats - 1 (0.09%)
  • others and unknown - 3 (0.27%)
    • Porječina

    total: 819

  • Serbs - 795 (97.07%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 14 (1.71%)
  • Croats - 1 (0.12%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 1 (0.12%)
  • others and unknown - 8 (0.98%)
    • Sočkovac

    total: 1,112

  • Serbs - 1,052 (95%)
  • "Yugoslavs" - 21 (2%)
  • Muslims by nationality - 15 (1%)
  • Croats - 7 (1%)
  • others and unknown - 17 (2%)

    • 2006

    In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Serbs.

    References

  • Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.

    • Governance

    Mayor
  • 2008: Zoran Blagojević (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats) [2]

    • Municipality

    The following villages are constituents of Petrovo municipality:

  • 1. Petrovo
  • 2. Kakmuž
  • 3. Sočkovac
  • 4. Karanovac
  • 5. Krtova
  • 6. Porječina

    • Culture

    The Saint Nikola monastery of the Serb Orthodox Church is in the Petrovo municipality.

    Twin municipalities – Sister municipalities

  • Borovo, Croatia

    • References

    Petrovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Wikipedia
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