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On 26 and 27 October 1969, two devastating earthquakes (6.0 and 6.4 on the Richter scale) damaged many buildings in Banja Luka. Around 20 to 23 people were killed, and over a thousand injured. [ 21 ] A large building called Titanik in the centre of the town was razed to the ground, and the area was later turned into a central public square.
Rukometni klub Borac Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Рукометни клуб Бopaц Бања Лука) is a handball club from Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Monument to fallen Krajina soldiers on top of Banj brdo. Banj brdo (Serbian Cyrillic: Бањ брдо, which can be translated as Banj hill), before known as Šehitluci (Serbian Cyrillic: Шехитлуци) is a 431 meter hill as well as tourist and recreation place in Banja Luka, part of the Bjeljavina mountain.
[4] During the 1990s, the local (mostly Bosniaks ) population has suffered the fate of all Bosniak villages in the Vrbanja valley, from Kruševo Brdo (Krusevo Hill) to Banja Luka. The inhabitants were killed and expelled, the estates occupied local and newcoming Serbs .
The football club Borac Banja Luka was founded on 4 July 1926. Originally it was named Radnički sportski klub Borac , which means Labour Sports Club Borac, Borac meaning "Fighter", and its roots come from the relation the club had with local labour movements during the first half of the 20th century.
[4] [14] Featuring the popular Chinese mythological character Nezha, the plot is loosely based on the 16th-century novel Investiture of the Gods by Xu Zhonglin. [2] [15] In the film, A young boy, Ne Zha, is born from a heavenly pearl by the Primeval Lord of Heaven, Yuanshi Tianzun. Born with unique powers, he finds himself as an outcast who is ...
Dara of Jasenovac (Serbian: Дара из Јасеновца, romanized: Dara iz Jasenovca) is a 2021 Serbian historical drama film directed by Predrag Antonijević.Based on the testimonies of survivors, it deals with war crimes and atrocities that took place at Jasenovac concentration camp, [5] [6] which was a part of the Holocaust and the wider genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of ...
Pajčin won a 1989 competition for amateur singers in Livno and released his first album in 1991. His career began just as Yugoslavia began to break up.Throughout the 1990s, he was known for his strong Serbian nationalism and Serbian nationalist songs during the Yugoslav wars; during the Croatian War of Independence he was dubbed Baja Mali-Knindža (literally meaning "Baja little Kninja" in ...