Bosanski Petrovac

Bosanski Petrovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Босански Петровац) is

a town and municipality located in the Una-Sana Canton of Bosanski Petrovac
the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia Босански Петровац
and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, the municipality has a
Town and municipality
population of 7,328 inhabitants, while the town has a
population of 3,427 inhabitants.

History
The settlement has existed since Roman times. It was
conquered by the Ottoman Empire somewhere between 1520
and 1530. From 1929 to 1941, Bosanski Petrovac was part of
the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the
Second World War, it was a Partisan stronghold which was
conveniently located close to Marshal Josip Broz Tito's
headquarters in Drvar. On 6 December 1942 the Women's
Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia was established in the town.[2]
Bosanski Petrovac
During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the town's Serb majority
remained in the city while the Bosniaks and Croats were
forced to leave their homes. Then in 1995, as the war was
nearing its end, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina seized Bosanski Petrovac and it remained in
Bosnian hands until the end of the war.[3] In the following
years, the Serbs' right to return would be hindered. However,
the town would eventually return to its pre-war ethnic
composition.

Settlements
Bara Location of Bosanski Petrovac within
Bjelaj Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bjelajski Vaganac Coordinates: 44°33′N 16°22′E
Bosanski Petrovac Country Bosnia and
Bravski Vaganac Herzegovina
Brestovac Entity Federation of
Bosnia and
Bukovača Herzegovina
Bunara Canton Una-Sana
Busije Geographical Bosanska Krajina
Cimeše region
Dobro Selo Government
Drinić • Mayor Mahmut Jukić
 Janjila (SDA)[1]
Jasenovac Area
Kapljuh • Town and 717 km2
Klenovac municipality (277 sq mi)
Kolunić Elevation 664 m (2,178 ft)
Krnja Jela Population (2013 census)
Krnjeuša • Town and 7,328
Lastve municipality
Medeno Polje • Density 11/km2 (30/sq mi)
Oraško Brdo • Urban 3,427
Oštrelj Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
Podsrnetica • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Prkosi Area code +387 37
Rašinovac
Website www
Revenik .bosanskipetrovac
Risovac .gov.ba (https://ww
Skakavac w.bosanskipetrova
c.gov.ba)
Smoljana
Suvaja
Vedro Polje
Vođenica
Vranovina
Vrtoče

Demographics
Landscape from one of the villages
Population

Population of settlements – Bosanski Petrovac municipality

Settlement 1971. 1981. 1991. 2013.

Total 18,597 16,374 15,621 7,328

1 Bosanski Petrovac 4,016 4,547 5,381 3,427

2 Dobro Selo 901 655

3 Kolonić 521 232

4 Krnjeuša 958 495

5 Rašinovac 627 398

Ethnic composition

Ethnic composition – Bosanski Petrovac town

Serbian Orthodox Church
2013. 1991. 1981. 1971.

Total 3,427 5,381 4,547 4,016

 (100,0%) (100,0%) (100,0%) (100,0%)

2,608 2,678 2,248 2,551

Bosniaks
(75,11%) (49,77%) (49,44%) (63,52%)
778 2,345 1,428 1,257
Serbs
(22,67%) (43,58%) (31,41%) (31,30%)

17
Unaffiliated
(0,496%)

28 36 39
Croats 9 (0,263%)
(0,520%) (0,792%) (0,971%)
77 21 34
Others 7 (0,204%)
(1,431%) (0,462%) (0,847%)

Unknown 3 (0,088%) Mosque

253 794 124
Yugoslavs 1 (0,029%)
(4,702%) (17,46%) (3,088%)
11
Montenegrins 1 (0,029%) 6 (0,149%)
(0,242%)

Macedonians 1 (0,029%) 7 (0,154%) 1 (0,025%)

Albanians 1 (0,029%) 2 (0,050%)

Turks 1 (0,029%)

Slovenes 2 (0,044%) 2 (0,050%)

Monument representing notable

people from Bosanski Petrovac
 Ethnic composition – Bosanski Petrovac municipality

2013. 1991. 1981. 1971.

Total 7,328 (100,0%) 15,621 (100,0%) 16,374 (100,0%) 18,597 (100,0%)

Serbs 4,003 (54,53%) 11,694 (74,86%) 11,129 (67,97%) 14,941 (80,34%)

Bosniaks 3,236 (43,38%) 3,288 (21,05%) 2,893 (17,67%) 3,315 (17,83%)

Unaffiliated 30 (0,409%)
Croats 26 (0,355%) 48 (0,307%) 49 (0,299%) 76 (0,409%)

Unknown 12 (0,164%)

Others 11 (0,150%) 225 (1,440%) 89 (0,544%) 92 (0,495%)

Roma 3 (0,041%)

Yugoslavs 2 (0,027%) 366 (2,343%) 2 187 (13,36%) 154 (0,828%)

Montenegrins 1 (0,014%) 13 (0,079%) 13 (0,070%)

Macedonians 1 (0,014%) 8 (0,049%) 1 (0,005%)

Slovenes 1 (0,014%) 6 (0,037%) 3 (0,016%)

Albanians 1 (0,014%) 2 (0,011%)

Turks 1 (0,014%)

Notable people
Mersad Berber, painter
Jovan Bijelić, painter
Ahmet Hromadžić, writer[4]
Tomislav Krizmanić, boxer, bronze medal winner at the 1953 European amateur boxing
championships[5]
Skender Kulenović, writer
Marinko Rokvić, Serbian folk singer

References
1. "Načelnik" (https://www.bosanskipetrovac.gov.ba/index.php/nacelnik). Official website of
Bosanski Petrovac (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved September 21, 2022.
2. Ognjenović, Gorana; Jozelić, Jasna (2016). Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic
Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito's Yugoslavia, Stories Untold (https://books.google.c
om/books?id=u3-QDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87). Springer. p. 87.
3. Magas, Branka; Zanic, Ivo (2013). The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina 1991-1995
(https://books.google.com/books?id=vZO0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA256). Routledge. p. 256.
ISBN 9781136340925.
4. na-danasnji-dan-11-10-1923-godine-roden-je-bosanskohercegovacki-knjizevnik-ahmet-
hromadzic/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20131214032438/http://www.sigma.ba/cuvari-blaga/
na-danasnji-dan-11-10-1923-godine-roden-je-bosanskohercegovacki-knjizevnik-ahmet-hro
madzic/), archived from the original (http://www.sigma.ba/cuvari-blaga/na-danasnji-dan-11-1
0-1923-godine-roden-je-bosanskohercegovacki-knjizevnik-ahmet-hromadzic/) on 2013-12-
14
 5. "European Championships 1953" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123133/http://amat
eur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanChampionships1953.html). amateur-
boxing.strefa.pl. 2007-09-29. Archived from the original (http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Cham
pionships/EuropeanChampionships1953.html) on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2022-02-04.

External links
Official site (http://www.bosanskipetrovac.gov.ba/) (in Bosnian)

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