Srebrenik

Srebrenik is a town and municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Tuzla Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town of Srebrenik is located northwest of Tuzla.

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In the 1991 census, the municipality of Srebrenik had 40,882 inhabitants: 30,595 Bosniaks (74.8%), 5,326 Serbs (13.0%), 2,761 Croats (6.8%), and 2,200 others (5,4%).

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Nowadays, the population of Srebrenik is not clear since no official census has been conducted after 1991.

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However, it is certain that during the 1990s and particulary during the Bosnian war, the municipality of Srebrenik received approximately 13,000 Bosniak war refugees from primarily the municipalities of Doboj, to the west, and Br?ko, to the north of Srebrenik.

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On the other hand, some of the Serb residents left the area since Srebrenik became chiefly populated by Bosniaks. In early 1996, when the Bosnian war ended, most of the remaining Serb residents of Srebrenik left because Srebrenik became administratively part of the Tuzla Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Due to these factors the March 1998 unofficial census recorded the following demographic composition. The municipality of Srebrenik had 47,938 inhabitants: 44,734 Bosniaks (93.4%), 2,508 Croats (5.2%), 348 Serbs (0.7%), and 348

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others (0.7%).

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Therefore, today it is safe to assume that the municipality of Srebrenik has a population of approximately 49,000 (est.) residents with an evident majority of Bosniaks along with a small minority of primarily Croats.

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Otherwise, Bosnia's perhaps most-preserved medieval fort dating from 1333 is located in the outskirts of Srebrenik. The fort was occupied by the Ban of Bosnia Stjepan Kotromani? until his death in 1353.

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The football club of Srebrenik is called NK Gradina.

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