Kostajnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

This article is about the town on the Una river. For villages near Doboj and Konjic, see Kostajnica (disambiguation).

Kostajnica / Костајница Bosanska Kostajnica / Босанска Костајница
—  Municipality  —
Hrvatska Kostajnica (left) and Bosanska Kostajnica (right)
Coat of arms
Location of Kostajnica within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Government
• Mayor	Marko Čolić (SNSD)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	52
Website	Official website

Kostajnica, also known as Bosanska Kostajnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Босанска Костајница), is a town and municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town and municipality are situated in the north-western part of the Republika Srpska entity and northern part of the Bosanska Krajina region. The municipality was created from part of the pre-war municipality of Bosanski Novi. It is located across the Una from Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia.

Name

Passport stamp bearing just the name Kostajnica.

During the Bosnian War, it was renamed to Srpska Kostajnica (Српска Костајница). After the war, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina decreed that name is unconstitutional. After that, name of the town was changed to Kostajnica.

Demographics

1991

In the 1991 census, Bosanska Kostajnica was part of the Bosanski Novi municipality, and its population numbered 3,768 people, including:

• 1,715 Serbs (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 1,659 Bosniaks
• 182 Yugoslavs
• 126 Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 86 others

Note: The vast majority of those who declared as Muslims by nationality in 1991 have considered themselves Bosniaks since the Bosnian War.

2006

In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Bosnian Serbs.

See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska

External links

• Official website (Serbian)
• Kostajnica (Serbian)
• Bosanska Kostajnica (Bosnian)