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www.banjaluka.rs.ba. Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бања Лука, pronounced [bǎɲa lǔːka] ⓘ) or Banjaluka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бањалука, pronounced [baɲalǔːka]) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ 2 ] Banja Luka is the traditional centre of the densely-forested Bosanska Krajina region of northwestern Bosnia.
In September and October, 6,500 Bosniak and Croat civilians living in the area of Banja Luka or Prijedor were expelled from their homes by Bosnian Serb forces. Changes of control of territory also allowed access to two mass graves near Sanski Most, believed to contain the bodies of 300 civilians killed by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992.
Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska, which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War with the Srebrenica genocide and Markale massacres, precipitating the intervention.
The objectives of the operation was to capture of the town of Mrkonjić Grad and positions on the Manjača Mountain which would allow the HV and the HVO to directly threaten Banja Luka, the largest city controlled by Bosnian Serbs. [1] It would also assist the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Republika Srpska south of ...
Autoput Banja Luka - Novi Grad 23.5 km (14.6 mi) Prijedor - Novi Grad: The preparation of the general project for the selection of the route is underway [24] Autoput Banja Luka - Mliništa 95.0 km (59.0 mi) Banja Luka - Mlinište: There are no detailed plans, just an announcement Autoput Vukosavlje - Rača Brčko RS 17.0 km (10.6 mi)
The Banja Luka incident, on 28 February 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force.
Since 2003, the president of the association has been Zoran Kostic, who moved its headquarters from Serbian Sarajevo to Banja Luka. The president of the Sarajevo-Romanija-Drina branch is Nedeljko Zelenović. The founding assembly of the Association of Historians of the Republic of Srpska "Milorad Ekmečić" was held in Banja Luka in December ...
The success of Operation Storm also represented a strategic victory in the Bosnian War as it lifted the siege of Bihać, [172] and allowed the Croatian and Bosnian leadership to plan a full-scale military intervention in the VRS-held Banja Luka area—one aimed at creating a new balance of power in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a buffer zone along ...