Banja Luka
Banja Luka (Бања Лука), or Banjaluka is a city in the western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the Vrbas river.[1] It is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and many people say it is one of the country's most beautiful cities. It is the administrative center of the Republika Srpska and the economic and cultural center of this part of Bosnian Krajina.[2][3]
Its elevation is 163 m, and its total area is 1,238.91 km2. According to the 2013 census, the City of Banja Luka has 185,042 inhabitants.
In the first century AD, Romans won the area of Banja Luka, which was then inhabited mainly members of Mezeji, an Illyrian tribe. This area was completely within the Roman province called Illyricum. Today, the city of Banja Luka is located on the road that led from Dalmatia to Pannonia, or from Salona to today's Bosanska Gradiška. Today's citadel Kastel, which is in what was the center of the city at the time, was a Roman military fortress.
Slavs settled Balkans and all of the current Banja Luka are in the sixth and seventh centuries, and they built several fortresses in the valley of the river Vrbas. There are not many written records from that time. The earliest Slavic settlement is also called "Vrbas," and it was first mentioned in 1320. The name of the town Banja Luka first appears in writing in 1494, in a work by Croatian-Hungarian King Vladislav. The name comes from banjaluk that is the Turkish-Bosnian slang for "spaing." This is because of the natural hot water suitable for baths that still exist in today's oldest settlement, Gornji Šeher/Upper Seher. The city came under Ottoman rule in 1537.
Banja Luka Media
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The Ferhat Pasha Mosque, built in 1579, was demolished in 1993 during the Bosnian War. It was rebuilt in 2016.
Banja Luka municipality by population proportional to the settlement with the highest and lowest population
The building of the City Assembly of Banja Luka
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Nektar beer produced in Banjalučka Pivara
Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska
Museum of Republika Srpska
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References
- ↑ "Nezavisna Agencija za Statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine, Službeni grad Banja Luka". nasbih.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ↑ "General information about Banja Luka". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ↑ Mučibabić B., Ed. (1998): Geografski atlas Bosne i Hercegovine. Geodetski zavod BiH, Sarajevo, ISBN 9958-766-00-0.
