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Radohova
Радохова
Village
Radohova is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radohova
Radohova
Location in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates: 44°28′06″N 17°31′55″E / 44.4683°N 17.5319°E / 44.4683; 17.5319
CountryBosnia and Herzegovina
EntityRepublika Srpska
MunicipalityKotor Varoš
Highest elevation
820 m (2,690 ft)
Lowest elevation
600 m (2,000 ft)
Population
 (1991)
 • Total700
Area code+387 (051)

Radohova (Serbian Cyrillic: Радохова) is a settlement in the Kotor Varoš Municipality, Republika Srpska entity, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The settlement includes the hamlets of Ulice, Letići, Lapići, Traljići, Kerkezi, Gigovići, Demići, and Dunići, located on the slopes of Zastijenje, and extend from the Ulički stream to the source of Demićka (left tributary of the Vrbanja river) and the Djevojačka Ravan ("Girls' plain"). Its length is ca. 6 km.

Geography

Radohova includes a number of hamlets on the Zastijenje slopes at altitudes of 640–850 m and belt about 10 km long.[1][2][page needed] Local roads, all villages have access to regional road R-440: ŠiprageKotor VarošČelinacBanja Luka.[3]

History

Above Dunići remains of stećci (tombstones) have been discovered.[citation needed]

During World War II, the Yugoslav Partisans were active in Radohova.[4] A Partisan divisional hospital was located below Dunići rocks and Demići, in the gorge of Demićka river. It was repeatedly bombed during the Sixth Enemy Offensive.[5][page needed]

During the Bosnian War (1992–95), Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), police and paramilitary forces demolished the surrounding Bosniak villages, especially those upstream along the Vrbanja to Kruševo Brdo, as well as all Bosniak villages downstream to Banja Luka.[6][page needed][7][page needed]

Population

Radohova; Census Year 2013: Total of 267 citizens
Census Year 1991. 1981. 1971.
Bosniaks 644 (92,00%) 625 (90,97%) 680 (85,10%)
Serbs 49 (7,00%) 36 (5,24%) 113 (14,14%)
Croats 0 0 4 (0,50%)
Yugoslavs 4 (0,57%) 26 (3,78%) 1 (0,12%)
Others and unknown 3 (0,42%) 0 1 (0,12%)
Total 700 687 799

References

  1. ^ Vojnogeografski institut, Izd. (1963): Šiprage (List karte 25.000, Izohipse na 10 m). Vojnogeografski institut, Beograd.
  2. ^ Mučibabić B., Ur. (1998): Geografski atlas Bosne i Hercegovine. Geodetski zavod BiH, Sarajevo, ISBN 9958-766-00-0.
  3. ^ http://www.kartabih.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Vojnoistorijski institut (1954). Zbornik Dokumenta. Vol. 4. p. 462.
  5. ^ Samardžija S. (1983): Četrnaesta srednjobosanska NOU brigada. Skupština opštine Prnjavor, Banja Luka.
  6. ^ Gutman R. (1993): A witness to genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the "Ethnic Cleansing" of Bosnia. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York, ISBN 9780020329954.
  7. ^ Beč J. (1997): Pucanje duše. Samizdat B92, Beograd, ISBN 86-7208-010-6.