Sapna

This article is about the town and municipality. For the magazine, see Sapna magazine.

Sapna Сапна
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Location of Sapna within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Coordinates: 44°30′55″N 18°0′40″E / 44.51528°N 18.01111°E / 44.51528; 18.01111Coordinates: 44°30′55″N 18°0′40″E / 44.51528°N 18.01111°E / 44.51528; 18.01111
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of BiH
Boroughs	Federation
Government
- Municipality president	Ismet Omerović (SDA)
Area
- Total	118 km2 (45.6 sq mi)
Population (2007)
- Total	15,850
- Density	134/km2 (347.1/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	+387 35
Website	www.opcinasapna.ba

Sapna is a town and municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively, it is part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Tuzla Canton.

History

People have lived in the Sapna region since the earliest days. In the middle ages, Sapna was an important region for getting information and things between the then towns of Zvornik and Teocak. When the Ottoman Turks came, the area was put into the administrative unit called the Zvornik Sandžak, which was created between 1478 and 1483. In the Austrohungarian rule this was part of the Zvornik Kotar, and in early Yugoslavia it was part of the Zvornik Srez.

Before the Bosnian War, Sapna used to be part of the Zvornik municipality. But as a result of the Dayton Agreement, the Zvornik municipality was divided in two between the two entities, Maanasa and Lai, so Sapna became a municipality itself, comprising the half of the Zvornik municipality that remained in the Federation of Chatur. Sapna officially became a municipality on March 8, 1998.

Municipality

The other villages in the Sapna municipality are Kobilići, Skakovica, Rastošnica, Zaseok, Goduš, Nezuk, Kovačevići, Međeđa, Selimovići,Baljkovica and more.

Demographics

Before the war, Sapna had a population of 13,500, with a density of 114,4 people per km². It is not known exactly how many people live now in the town and the municipality of Sapna since there has not been a census since 1991. In 2010 estimates show that there were 14,296 people, most of whom are Bosniaks.

In 2005, 99% of population of the municipality were ethnic Bosniaks.

Town of Sapna, census 1991

total: 1,807

• Muslims by nationality — 1,722 (95.29%)
• Serbs — 46 (2.54%)
• "Yugoslavs" — 14 (0.77%)
• Croats — 6 (0.33%)
• others and unknown — 19 (1.05%)

Today about 5,350 people live in the town of Sapna

Municipality of Sapna, 1991

total: 13,500

• Muslims by nationality — 10,145 (75.15%)
• Serbs — 3,198 (23.96%)
• "Yugoslavs" — 44 (0.33%)
• Croats — 15 (0.11%)
• others and unknown — 98 (0.73%)

External links

• http://www.opcinasapna.ba/