Rudo

Rudo Рудо
Location of Rudo within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
• Mayor	Milko Čolaković (SNSD) [1]
Area
• Total	344 km2 (132.8 sq mi)
Population (1991)
• Total	11,572
• Municipality	?
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	58

Rudo (Serbian Cyrillic: Рудо, Turkish: Sokullu) is a town and municipality in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina near the border with Serbia. It appears in Ivo Andrić's story "The Beys of Rudo."

Demographics

1971

15,982 total

• Serbs – 10.155 (63.54%)
• Muslims – 5.532 (34.61%)
• Croats – 18 (0.11%)
• Yugoslavs – 80 (0.50%)
• Others – 197 (1.24%)

In 1991, the population of the Rudo municipality numbered 11,572 people, including:

• 8,191 Serbs (70.78%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 3,142 Bosniaks (27.15%)
• 93 Yugoslavs
• 5 Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 141 others

The town of Rudo itself in 1991 had a population of 3,109, including:

• 2,103 Serbs (68%)
• 869 Bosniaks (28%)
• 66 Yugoslavs
• 3 Croats
• 68 others

Sokollu Mehmet Paşa was also born in this town.

See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska