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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Highest elevation
  
680 m (2,230 ft)

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:57 PM

Municipality
  
Kotor Varoš

Entity
  
Republika Srpska

Lowest elevation
  
660 m (2,170 ft)

Population
  
346 (1991)

Stopan

Weather
  
14°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 33% Humidity

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Stopan (Serbian Cyrillic: Стопан) is a village in the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kotor Varoš Municipality, Šiprage local community. At the census in 1991, Stopan had a population of 346 inhabitants. According to preliminary results of the census 2013 there were 119 citizens.

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Map of Stopan, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Geography

Stopan is located on the pass - hill (altitude about 680 m) sandwiched between Crkvenica and Stopanski river – right tributaries of Vrbanja river. From this village to Šiprage there is (mostly gravel) local road, length of about 8 km.

Stopan used to be a relatively big village of opportunities Šiprage's area, rich of drinking water and widely known orchards, domestic fruit products and hospitality.

History

During World War II, this village took part in the defense forces and was significant partisan jump refuge. Among others, January 1944 has received a large number of wounded partisans, who were evacuated from the Divisional Hospital in gorge of Demićka (nearby of Šiprage), during Sixth enemy offensive. Because of the distance of the main local communications, Stopan is, and when other hostile penetration, was a safer refuge for the civil inhabitants of surrounding localities.

During the War in Bosnia (1992-1995), Army, police and paramilitary forces of the Republika Srpska destroyed the surrounding Bosniak villages, especially those upstream of Vrbanja to Kruševo Brdo as well as those downstream to Banja Luka. Local inhabitants were being killed, and the majority was expelled. After 1996, most Bosniak villages in Šiprage community were partly restored, thanks to the BELUGA battalion of the EUFOR-SFOR Mission. Only mosque in wide area is renewed.

References

Stopan Wikipedia