Trnovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Trnovo
Трново
Location of Trnovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
 - Mayor Čedo Mandić (SDS) [1]
Population (1991)
 - Total ?
 - Municipality ?
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s) 58

Trnovo (Cyrillic: Трново) is a town and municipality in the city of East Sarajevo (Serbian:Istočno Sarajevo), Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It consists of part of the pre-war municipality of Trnovo. Two thirds of the pre-war municipality of Trnovo are in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the municipality seat in the village of Dejčići.

Trnovo is town south of Sarajevo on the road M-18 Sarajevo-Trnovo-Foča-Trebinje.[1]It is surrounded by the mountains Jahorina, Bjelašnica and Treskavica thet were the locations of Olympic competitions during the 1984 Winter Olympics. Those mountains are today very popular destinations for a variety of winter sports and activities.[2]

The Željeznica river is one of the town's chief geographic features. It flows through the town and municipality from south through the center of Trnovo, Kijevo and East Sarajevo to west part of Sarajevo City eventually meets up with the Bosna river.


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[edit] Population/Demographics

No census has been made since the war, so current data is not available.

[edit] 1971

9.555 total

[edit] 1991

6.991.

  • Bosniaks - 4.790 (68,81%)
  • Serbs - 2.059 (29,45%)
  • Croats - 16 (0,22%)
  • Yugoslavs - 72 (1,02%)
  • Others - 54 (0,80%)


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Coordinates: 43°40′N 18°27′E / 43.667°N 18.45°E / 43.667; 18.45