Čelinac

Čelinac

Челинац
Čelinac Челинац
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	Coat of arms
	Location of Čelinac within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republic	Republika Srpska
Municipality	Čelinac
Government
• Mayor	Momčilo Zeljković (SNSD) [1]
Area
• Total	36,181 km2 (13,970 sq mi)
Population (2013 census)
• Total	16,874
• Density	466/km2 (1,210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	51
Website	Official Web Site

Čelinac (Serbian Cyrillic: Челинац) is a town and municipality in north-west Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality lies about 15 km (9 mi) to the east of the city of Banja Luka.

Geography

It is located between municipalities of Laktaši and Prnjavor to the north, Teslić to the east, Kotor Varoš, Skender Vakuf / Kneževo to the south, and Banja Luka to the west.

Demographics

1971

17,430 total

Serbs - 15,880 (91.10%)
Bosniaks - 1,209 (6.93%)
Croats - 90 (0.51%)
Yugoslavs - 14 (0.08%)
others - 237 (1.38%)

1991

In 1991, the population of Čelinac municipality was 18,666, including:

16,591 Serbs
1,440 Bosniaks
360 Yugoslavs
79 Croats
196 others

Inhabited places

In the municipality of Čelinac you can also find the villages Štrbe (main village in the municipality of Čelinac), Jošavka, Snjegotina, and Grabovac. Serbs are the overwhelming majority in these villages, as a great number of the natives of these villages have emigrated to Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovenia, because of a high degree of poverty in this municipality.

The Stuplje monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church is located in the municipality.