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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
645 km²

Area code
  
57

Entity
  
Republika Srpska

Website
  
City of Rogatica

Local time
  
Tuesday 11:52 AM

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Weather
  
19°C, Wind SE at 6 km/h, 36% Humidity

Rogatica (Serbian Cyrillic: Рогатица) is a municipality and town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina located 60 kilometres northeast of Sarajevo; midway on the road from Goražde towards Sokolac. Rogatica and the town of Žepa are located in the Rogatica municipality in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Contents

Map of Rogatica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1971

25.501 total

  • Bosniaks - 15,096 (59.19%)
  • Serbs - 10.208 (40.02%)
  • Croats - 45 (0.17%)
  • Yugoslavs - 62 (0.24%)
  • Others - 90 (0.38%)

    • 1991

    In the census of 1991, the municipality had 21,812 residents, the ethnic distribution of which were;

  • 15,374 Bosniaks (60.38%)
  • 10,169 Serbs (30.48%)
  • 185 Yugoslavs (0.85%)
  • 18 Croats (0.08%)
  • 66 others (0.30%)

    • The town of Rogatica itself had 8,930 inhabitants:

  • 5,662 Bosniaks (63%)
  • 3,062 Serbs (34%)
  • 139 Yugoslavs (2%)
  • others (1%)

    • From 1991, no census was conducted until 2013, but the results of that census will not be known until sometime in 2014.[1]

    Notable people

  • Kemal Mešić, athlete
  • Mehmed Sokolović, Ottoman statesman
  • Mersad Selimbegović, football player
  • Muhamed Mustafić, handball player
  • Nezir Škaljić, 3rd mayor of Sarajevo (from 1899 to 1905)
  • Safet Zec, painter
  • Ibrahim Šehić, football goalkeeper

    • References

    Rogatica Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA