Teslić

Teslić
Teslić; Теслић
	Location of Teslić within Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Coordinates: 44°36′24″N 17°51′36″E / 44.60667°N 17.86°E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Region	Banja Luka Region
Settlements	42 (1991.)
	Government
- Municipality president	Savo Kasapović (SNSD)
	Area
- Total	845 km2 (326.3 sq mi)
	Population (1991)
- Total	59,854
- Municipality	55,000
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	53

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Coordinates: 44°36′24″N 17°51′36″E / 44.60667°N 17.86°E / 44.60667; 17.86

Teslić (Cyrillic: Теслић) is a town and municipality in north-central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the central part of the Republika Srpska entity. Teslić is located on the Usora River.

[edit] History

The town was settled in the 19th century with the first industrialization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Main industries are wood products and the chemical industry. Long before Tesliċ began to rise a nearby village called Čečava existed as one of the oldest places people inhabited, there is archaeological evidence that Čečava existed as early as the 10th century. Teslić was until the late 1950s among the largest industrial centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today Tesliċ industry is mostly based on the production of wood, milk, clothing, telecommunications, electro industry, metallic industry and building construction.

Tesliċ is also known as a tourist destination, mainly because of the Banja Vrućica, а health spa for healing cardio-vascular diseases. With a complex of five hotels and a capacity of over 1000 beds, Banja Vrućica has the biggest tourist capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also worth mentioning nearby mountain Borje, an attractive tourist destination, with two hotels and sports facilities.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] 1971

In the 1971 census, the municipality of Teslić had 52,713 residents, including:

32,756 (62.14%) Serbs
10,000 (18.97%) Muslims by nationality
9,467 (17.95%) Croats
108 (0.20%) Yugoslavs
382 (0.72%) others and unknown

[edit] 1981

In the 1981 census, the municipality of Teslić had 60,434 residents, including:

35,024 (57,95%) Serbs
11,148 (18,44%) Muslims by nationality
10,744 (17,77%) Croats
3,008 (4,97%) Yugoslavs
510 (0,84%) others and unknown

[edit] 1991

In the 1991 census, the municipality of Teslić had 59,854 residents, including:

32,962 (55,07%) Serbs
12,802 (21,38%) Muslims by nationality
9,525 (15,91%) Croats
3,465 (5,78%) Yugoslavs
1,100 (1,83%) others

_{Note: The overwhelming majority of those who considered themselves Muslims by nationality in 1991 today consider themselves Bosniaks.}

[edit] 2006

In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Serbs. A lot of Bosniaks (around 4,000) have returned to their homes after the civil war.^{[citation needed]}