Rogatica

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Рогатица
Rogatica
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Location in Republika Srpska

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General Information
Entity Republika Srpska
Municipality area 664 km²
Population
- (est.)
17,000
- (1991 census) 21,812
Coordinates 43°81′N 19°00′E
Area code +387 57
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
CEST (UTC+2)
Politics
Mayor Tomislav Batinić (SDS) [1]

Rogatica (Cyrillic: Рогатица) is a municipality and town in eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located 60 kilometres east of Sarajevo; midway on the road from Goražde towards Sokolac. The village of Žepa is located in the Rogatica municipality.

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In the census of 1991, the municipality had 21,812 residents, the ethnic distribution of which were;

The town of Rogatica itself had 8,930 inhabitants:

  • 5,662 (63%) Muslims by nationality
  • 3,062 (34%) Serbs
  • 139 (2%) Yugoslavs
  • 1% others

Note: Most Muslims by nationality today consider themselves Bosniaks.

No census has been conducted since 1991, but estimates put the population at around 18,000, mostly Serbs.[2]

In 1992, during the first year of the war all of the Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) population was expelled from the Rogatica municipality, with the sole exception of Žepa. In July 1995 the remainder of the Bosniak population was expelled when Žepa fell to the Serbs. An estimated 1,133 Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) were killed between 1992-1995 in Rogatica.

Coordinates: 43°48′N 19°00′E


 
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