Kotor Varoš

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Kotor Varoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Котор Варош) is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History

The city was first mentioned in the tenth century, when it was called Kotor. Varoš, added later, means "town" in Hungarian. The town has great historic importance to Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks.

During the Bosnian War numerous religious and cultural monuments and landmarks were destroyed by various armed groups, such as the Croatian Roman Catholic Church in the centre of the town. Also notable destruction was found in the southern "Čarsija" region of the town where nearly every single house was destroyed. Serb-dominated parts of the town were mainly unaffected by the conflict. It is also important to note that due to the proximity (38 km) of Kotor Varoš to Banja Luka (Republika Srpska Capital) and that the city's post-war population demographic percentages were strongly impacted by this.

In recent years both the Croatian and Bosniak minorities have increased in size and the town is experiencing a slow but steady economic revival.

Demographics

1910

According to the 1910 census, the absolute majority in the Kotor Varoš municipality were Orthodox Christians (63.44%).

1971

32.832 total
* Serbs - 15.255 (46,46%)
* Croats - 8.863 (26,99%)
* Muslims - 8.366 (25,48%)
* Yugoslavs - 176 (0,53%)
* others - 172 (0,54%)

1991

In 1991, there were 36,670 inhabitants in municipality of Kotor Varoš, including:
*13,986 Serbs (38.14%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
*11,161 Muslims by nationality (30.44%)
*10,640 Croats (29.02%) (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
*707 Yugoslavs (1.93%)
*176 others (0.48%)

The town of Kotor Varoš had 10,828 residents and Croat relative majority. The population included:
*48% Croats (5,191)
*25% Serbs (2,727)
*21% Muslims by nationality (2,255)
*5% Yugoslavs (538)
*1% others (117)

Source: [http://www.hdmagazine.com/bosnia/census/cens-sz.html] .

2006

In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Serbs and 2,000 Bosniaks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Features

The city also features a large monument to the local partisans who died for Yugoslavia during the fighting with the German and Ustaša forces during WW2.

ee also

*Municipalities of Republika Srpska

External links

* [http://www.kotorvaros.net Official municipality website]