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Brod БродBosanski Brod
Town and municipality
Brod
Coat of arms
Location of Brod within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates: 45°08′N 17°59′E / 45.133°N 17.983°E / 45.133; 17.983
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Geographical region	Posavina
Government
• Municipal mayor	Milan Zečević (SNSD)
• Municipality	229.3 km (88.5 sq mi)
Population
• Town	8,563
• Municipality	16,619
• Municipality density	72/km (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	53
Website	www.opstina-brod.net

Brod (Serbian Cyrillic: Брод, pronounced [brôːd]), formerly Bosanski Brod (Serbian Cyrillic: Босански Брод) and Srpski Brod (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски Брод), is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the south bank of the river Sava, in the western part of the Posavina region. As of 2013, the town has a population of 7,637 inhabitants, while the municipality has a population of 16,619 inhabitants.

Name

The city's name refers to a place where river can be crossed, a ford.

Prior to the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the town was known as Bosanski Brod. During the war the prefix "Bosanski" was replaced with "Srpski" due to the town being under Serb control. In May 2009, the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska removed any prefix from the name resulting in the name Brod. Today its official name is just Brod, without either prefix Bosanski or Srpski. The Croatian town of Slavonski Brod is situated on the opposite (northern) bank of the Sava, forming a built-up area of more than 110,000 inhabitants.

The bridge over the Sava River at Brod was destroyed in the early hours of October 1992; it was rebuilt several years later after the hostilities ended.

History

The area of Brod was inhabited since ancient times, which is testified by numerous artifacts from the Stone and Iron Age, as well as the Roman period.

Brod was first mentioned in 1691, during the Ottoman era as Turski Brod.

In 1878 Brod became a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and got the official name of Bosanski Brod with the beginning of building of the railroad to Sarajevo. The first train departed towards Derventa in 1879, while the service was expanded to Doboj later in the same year.

Poet and writer Duško Trifunović was born in village Sijekovac near Brod in 1933. Brod's main river promenade, along the bank of the Sava, is named after him.

Settlements

Aside from the town of Brod, the following settlements comprise the municipality:

• Brusnica Mala
• Brusnica Velika
• Donja Barica
• Donja Močila
• Donja Vrela
• Donje Kolibe
• Donji Klakar
• Gornja Barica
• Gornja Močila
• Gornja Vrela
• Gornje Kolibe
• Gornji Klakar
• Grk
• Koraće
• Kričanovo
• Kruščik
• Liješće
• Novo Selo
• Sijekovac
• Unka
• Vinska
• Zborište

Demographics

Population

Ethnic composition

Administrative areas

The Municipality of Brod according to population census from 1991, had twenty-three inhabited settlements, divided into twelve local communities:

City local communities

• MZ Brodsko Polje 1
• MZ Brodsko Polje 2
• MZ Brod - downtown
• MZ Karađorđevo
• MZ Rit
• MZ Tulek

Rural communities

• MZ Gornji Klakar
• MZ Donji Klakar
• MZ Gornje Kolibe
• MZ Donje Kolibe
• MZ Koraće
• MZ Liješće
• MZ Novo Selo
• MZ Sijekovac
• MZ Vinska
• MZ Unka
• MZ Gornja Vrela
• MZ Grk
• MZ Barica

Notable residents

• Duško Trifunović, children's writer and poet
• Sead Mašić, football player
• Edin Mujčin, football player
• Ljupko Petrović, football coach
• Velibor Vidić, boxer, bronze medal winner for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
• Zdravko Zovko, handball coach

See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska
• Sijekovac killings

References

1. The official web site of the municipality Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Brod/Брод.
2. The official name of region Archived 2015-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Brod | Tourist organization Republic of Srpska" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-10-10.
4. ^ "Туризам - Општина Брод". opstina-brod.net. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
5. "Historija". Željeznice (in Bosnian). 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
6. "Preminuo pjesnik Duško Trifunović". www.klix.ba (in Croatian). Retrieved 2024-10-10.
7. "Turisticka organizacija opstine Brod". Retrieved 2024-10-10.
8. "Мјесне заједнице | Opština Brod". Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-08-21.

Sources

• Mangold, Max (2005), Das Aussprachewörterbuch, Duden, ISBN 9783411040667

External links

• Official website

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