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Country
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Region
  
Doboj Region

Area
  
838 km²

Area code
  
53

Entity
  
Republika Srpska

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Wednesday 10:28 PM

Team
  
FK Proleter Teslić

Teslić

Weather
  
12°C, Wind SW at 3 km/h, 53% Humidity

Teslić (Serbian Cyrillic: Теслић) is a town and municipality in north-central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the central part of the Republika Srpska entity. Teslić is located on the Usora River.

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History

The town was settled in the 19th century with the first industrialization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Main industries are wood products and the chemical industry. Long before Tesliċ began to rise a nearby village called Čečava existed as one of the oldest places people inhabited, there is archaeological evidence that Čečava existed as early as the 10th century.

From 1929 to 1941, Teslić was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Teslić was until the late 1950s among the largest industrial centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today Tesliċ industry is mostly based on the production of wood, milk, clothing, telecommunications, electro industry, metallic industry and building construction.

Tesliċ is also known as a tourist destination, mainly because of the Banja Vrućica, а health spa for healing cardio-vascular diseases. With a complex of five hotels and a capacity of over 1000 beds, Banja Vrućica has the biggest tourist capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also worth mentioning nearby mountain Borje, an attractive tourist destination, with two hotels and sports facilities.

1971

In the 1971 census, the municipality of Teslić had 52,713 residents, including:

  • 32,756 (62.14%) Serbs
  • 10,000 (18.97%) Bosniaks
  • 9,467 (17.95%) Croats
  • 108 (0.20%) Yugoslavs
  • 382 (0.72%) others and unknown
  • 1981

    In the 1981 census, the municipality of Teslić had 60,434 residents, including:

  • 35,024 (57.95%) Serbs
  • 11,148 (18.44%) Bosniaks
  • 10,744 (17.77%) Croats
  • 3,008 (4.97%) Yugoslavs
  • 510 (0.84%) others and unknown
  • 1991

    In the 1991 census, the municipality of Teslić had 59,854 residents, including:

  • 32,962 (55.07%) Serbs
  • 12,802 (21.38%) Bosniaks
  • 9,525 (15.91%) Croats
  • 3,465 (5.78%) Yugoslavs
  • 1,100 (1.83%) others
  • 2013

    In the 2013 census, the municipality of Teslić had 38,536 residents, including:

  • 29,041 (75.36%) Serbs
  • 7,184 (18.64%) Bosniaks
  • 1,442 (3.74%) Croats
  • 869 (2.25%) others
  • Settlements

    Settlements (over 1,500 residents), according to the 1991 census:

    Teslić

    total: 8,655

  • 3,571 (41.25%) Serbs
  • 1,889 (21.82%) Bosniaks
  • 766 (8.85%) Croats
  • 1,987 (22.95%) Yugoslavs
  • 442 (5.10%) others and unknown
  • Blatnica

    total: 2,890

  • 2,768 (95.77%) Serbs
  • 40 (1.38%) Croats
  • 7 (0.24%) Bosniaks
  • 60 (2.07%) Yugoslavs
  • 15 (0.51%) others and unknown
  • Banja Vrućica

    total: 2,637

  • 1,381 (52.37%) Serbs
  • 828 (31.39%) Croats
  • 37 (1.40%) Bosniaks
  • 334 (12.66%) Yugoslavs
  • 57 (2.16%) others and unknown
  • Čečava

    total: 2,616

  • 2,503 (95.68%) Serbs
  • 36 (1.37%) Croats
  • 1 (0.03%) Bosniaks
  • 54 (2.06%) Yugoslavs
  • 22 (0.84%) others and unknown
  • Buletić

    total: 2,419

  • 2,292 (94.74%) Serbs
  • 12 (0.49%) Bosniaks
  • 6 (0.24%) Croats
  • 76 (3.14%) Yugoslavs
  • 33 (1.36%) others and unknown
  • Mladikovine

    total: 2,406

  • 2,366 (98.33%) Serbs
  • 3 (0.12%) Croats
  • 24 (0.99%) Yugoslavs
  • 13 (0.54%) others and unknown
  • Donji Ružević

    total: 2,060

  • 1,804 (87.57%) Bosniaks
  • 118 (5.72%) Serbs
  • 12 (0.58%) Croats
  • 83 (4.02%) Yugoslavs
  • 43 (2.08%) others and unknown
  • Pribinić

    total: 1,996

  • 1,662 - 83.26% Serbs
  • 275 - 13.77% Bosniaks
  • 7 - 0.35% Croats
  • 37 - 1.85% Yugoslavs
  • 15 - 0.75% others and unknown
  • Stenjak

    total: 1,740

  • 1,451 - 83.39% Bosniaks
  • 155 - 8.90% Serbs
  • 18 - 1.03% Croats
  • 109 - 6.26% Yugoslavs
  • 7 - 0.40% others and unknown
  • Kamenica

    total: 1,667

  • 1,322 - 79.30% Bosniaks
  • 246 - 14.75% Croats
  • 39 - 2.33% Serbs
  • 47 - 2.81% Yugoslavs
  • 13 - 0.77% others and unknown
  • Gornja Vrućica

    total: 1,590

  • 1,238 - 77.86% Croats
  • 292 - 18.36% Serbs
  • 49 - 3.08% Yugoslavs
  • 11 - 0.69% others and unknown
  • Đulići

    total: 1,512

  • 710 - 46.95% Serbs
  • 673 - 44.51% Bosniaks
  • 12 - 0.79% Croats
  • 37 - 2.44% Yugoslavs
  • 80 - 5.29% others and unknown
  • Historical sites

  • About 5 km to the South-East from the city center there is a location of medieval tombstones of Duke Momčilo.
  • Solila on the Borja Mountain
  • Notable people

  • Borki Predojević, professional chess player
  • Dragan Blatnjak, football player
  • Drago Đurić, former businessman
  • Vladimir Petrović, football player
  • Željka Cvijanović, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska
  • References

    Teslić Wikipedia