Pelagićevo
Pelagićevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Пелагићево) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Posavina geographical region. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,796 inhabitants, while the municipality has 5,220 inhabitants.
It was originally named Gornji Žabar, and was later renamed after Vaso Pelagić, a representative of utopian socialism in Serbia during the second half of the nineteenth century, born in the town in 1833.
History
The municipality was created after the Dayton Agreement from part of the pre-war municipality of Gradačac (the other part of the pre-war municipality is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Demographics
Population
Population of settlements – Pelagićevo municipality | |||||
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Settlements | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | |
Total | 13,256 | 5,220 | |||
1 | Blaževac | 318 | |||
2 | Donja Tramošnica | 381 | |||
3 | Gornja Tramošnica | 347 | |||
4 | Pelagićevo | 3,398 | 3,214 | 3,069 | 2,529 |
5 | Porebrice | 344 | |||
6 | Turić | 293 |
Ethnic composition
Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo town | |||||||
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2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
Total | 2,529 (100,0%) | 3,069 (100,0%) | 3,214 (100,0%) | 3,398 (100,0%) | |||
Serbs | 2,502 (98,93%) | 2,968 (96,71%) | 3,103 (96,55%) | 3,340 (98,29%) | |||
Croats | 12 (0,474%) | 16 (0,521%) | 22 (0,685%) | 36 (1,059%) | |||
Others | 10 (0,395%) | 34 (1,108%) | 31 (0,965%) | 13 (0,383%) | |||
Bosniaks | 5 (0,198%) | 4 (0,130%) | 5 (0,156%) | 6 (0,177%) | |||
Yugoslavs | 47 (1,531%) | 47 (1,462%) | |||||
Macedonians | 4 (0,124%) | 2 (0,059%) | |||||
Albanians | 2 (0,062%) | ||||||
Montenegrins | 1 (0,029%) |
Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo municipality | |||||||
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2013. | 1991. | ||||||
Total | 5,220 (100,0%) | 13,256 (100,0%) | |||||
Serbs | 3,330 (63,79%) | 4,634 (34,96%) | |||||
Croats | 1,850 (35,44%) | 7,165 (54,05%) | |||||
Others | 27 (0,517%) | 721 (5,439%) | |||||
Bosniaks | 13 (0,249%) | 736 (5,552%) |
See also
References
- ^ Roumen Daskalov, Diana Mishkova (2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans – Volume Two. Brill. p. 233. ISBN 9789004261914.
- ^ "КРАТАК ИСТОРИЈАТ ПЕЛАГИЋЕВА И ПОСАВИНЕ". СРБИ У БИХ (in Serbian). 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
External links
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