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Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 6 October 2024 to elect mayors and assemblies in 138 municipalities.. Due to sustaining major damage and suffering casualties following heavy floods two days prior, elections were postponed and held on 20 October in the municipalities of, Kiseljak, Kreševo, Konjic and Fojnica. [1]
Banja Luka covers some 96.2 km 2 (37.1 sq mi) of land in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on both banks of the Vrbas in the Banja Luka valley, which is characteristically flat within the otherwise hilly region. Banja Luka's centre lies 163 m (534.78 ft) above sea level.
During the World War II Banja Luka fell under the Independent State of Croatia. Building of Mortgage Bank was used as some kind of commanding building. During 2nd Banja Luka Operation building was partially destroyed by new "patent" of Yugoslav Partisans – pouring the gasoline in firefighter pump and in that way shooting on building. Reliefs ...
In 1998 Banski Dvor officially became a public cultural institution and nowadays is the most important cultural center of the city of Banja Luka and the Serb Republic with of thousand of visitors per year. Every year it holds hundreds of events, notable for their high number and variety: concerts, exhibitions of local and foreign artists, book ...
The Ottomans conquered Banja Luka in 1521. The Ottomans established proper settlement here. [4] Around 1580, Ferhat Pasha Sokolović built a bazaar a few kilometers downstream, on the left bank of Vrbas (surroundings of today's Kastel), and in 1583 he transferred the seat of the Bosnian pashaluk there. Since then, Banja Luka had two šehers ...
Due to the Bosnian War, the seat was moved to Pale, where it remained until 1998, when it was moved to Banja Luka, its current location. [3] From 1991 to 1996, the Assembly was composed of Serb representatives elected in 1990 for the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina , most of them members of the Serb Democratic Party ...
City / town Region Area (km2) Municipal population Urban population Banja Luka: Banja Luka: 1,239: 185,042: 150,997: Bijeljina: Doboj-Bijeljina: 734: 107,715: 45,291
The University of Banja Luka was established on 7 November 1975 as the second university established in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [9] 1970's were the years of expansion of higher education in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during which along the one in Banja Luka modern day University of Montenegro, University of Kragujevac, University of Rijeka ...