- Tuzla Canton
The Tuzla Canton is a canton of the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , an entity inBosnia and Herzegovina . The cantonal seat is inTuzla .Municipalities
It comprises the municipalities of
Banovići ,Čelić ,Doboj Istok (Doboj East),Gradačac ,Gračanica ,Kladanj ,Kalesija ,Lukavac ,Sapna ,Srebrenik , Teočak andŽivinice , as well as the city ofTuzla .Geography and population
The area of the canton is 2,908 km². At the
1991 census, the area was populated by 949,621 people of which 60% wereBosniaks , 28%Serbs , 9%Croats , and the rest belonged tominority groups (Yugoslavs , Roma,Slovenes ,Ukrainians et al.).In
2002 , the Tuzla Canton had an estimated population of 607,571 residents of which 546,814 wereBosniaks (90%).The second largest ethnic group is the
Croat minority living mostly in Tuzla and in Živinice and Srebrenik. While theSerb minority lives dominantly in Tuzla and the Roma population is mostly present in Tuzla but also in most of the other municipalities in smaller numbers.History and culture
The canton was created by the Bosniak-Croat
Washington Accords in1994 , and its boundaries defined by the Dayton Accords in1995 .Bosnia's best-preserved medieval
fort , dating from1333 , is inSrebrenik .Tuzla is the hip hop center of the Balkans due toEdo Maajka and the first hip hop station in Bosnia, which is located in Tuzla,fmjam .ee also
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Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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