Petrovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Petrovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Петрово) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,322 inhabitants, while the municipality has 16,474 inhabitants.
The municipality was formed from parts of the pre-war municipalities of Gračanica and Lukavac (the other parts of the pre-war municipalities are now in the other Bosnian entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Geography
The municipality is close to Doboj, halfway between Doboj and Tuzla. It is located on the mountain of Ozren.
History
The municipality was formed by Bosnian Serb authorities during the war. The Bosnian government never recognised this decision and officially municipality was created after the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Bosnian Serb authorities also changed the name of the municipality to Petrovo from Bosansko Petrovo Selo. The municipality existed before, however, it was dismantled in the 1960s. It belonged to Gračanica and Lukavac as well.
Demographics
Population
| Population of settlements – Petrovo municipality | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | |
| Total | 9,150 | 6,474 | |||
| 1 | Kakmuž | 2,398 | 1,691 | ||
| 2 | Karanovac | 1,178 | 1,088 | ||
| 3 | Petrovo | 2,333 | 2,606 | 2,919 | 2,322 |
| 4 | Porječina | 819 | 491 | ||
| 5 | Sočkovac | 1,121 | 768 | ||
Ethnic composition
| Ethnic composition – Petrovo town | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
| Total | 2,322 (100,0%) | 2,919 (100,0%) | 2,856 (100,0%) | 2,514 (100,0%) | |||
| Serbs | 2,695 (92,33%) | 2,606 (91,25%) | 2,333 (92,80%) | ||||
| Others | 82 (2,809%) | 28 (0,980%) | 12 (0,477%) | ||||
| Yugoslavs | 70 (2,398%) | 138 (4,832%) | 27 (1,074%) | ||||
| Bosniaks | 54 (1,850%) | 59 (2,066%) | 91 (3,620%) | ||||
| Croats | 18 (0,617%) | 12 (0,420%) | 33 (1,313%) | ||||
| Montenegrins | 6 (0,210%) | 7 (0,278%) | |||||
| Macedonians | 4 (0,140%) | 1 (0,040%) | |||||
| Slovenes | 1 (0,035%) | 4 (0,159%) | |||||
| Albanians | 1 (0,035%) | 1 (0,040%) | |||||
| Hungarians | 1 (0,035%) | 5 (0,199%) | |||||
| Ethnic composition – Petrovo municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | |||||||
| Total | 6,474 (100,0%) | 9,150 (100,0%) | ||||||
| Serbs | 6,371 (98,41%) | |||||||
| Others | 60 (0,927%) | |||||||
| Croats | 36 (0,556%) | |||||||
| Bosniaks | 7 (0,108%) | |||||||
Settlements
The following villages are constituents of Petrovo municipality:
Culture
The "Saint Nikola Monastery" of the Serbian Orthodox Church is located in the Petrovo municipality.
Twin municipalities – Sister municipalities
See also
References
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