Novi Travnik is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

, located south of Travnik

Travnik

Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality. Travnik today has some 27,000 residents, with a metro population that is probably close to 70,000 people...

 on the road to Bugojno

Bugojno

Bugojno is a town and municipality of the same name in central Bosnia and Herzegovina on the river Vrbas. It is located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity. The town is to the northwest from Sarajevo, with an estimated population of 50,000 .To the west...

. It is under the administration of the Central Bosnia Canton

Central Bosnia Canton

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 and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...

.

Name

The municipality was called Novi Travnik (meaning: The New Travnik

Travnik

Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality. Travnik today has some 27,000 residents, with a metro population that is probably close to 70,000 people...

) until 1980, when it was styled Pucarevo after Đuro Pucar

Đuro Pucar

Đurađ "Đuro" Pucar "Stari" was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb politician. During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans and was later decorated with the Order of the People's Hero and twice with the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour...

. In 1992 the former, original name was restored.

1971

22,847 total

• Muslims - 9,852 (43,12%)
• Croats - 8,200 (35,89%)
• Serbs - 4,129 (18,07%)
• Yugoslavs - 301 (1,31%)
• others - 365 (1,61%)

1991

In the census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 of 1991, the municipality of Novi Travnik had 30,624 residents, of which 39.60% were Croats

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

, 38.04% Bosniaks

Bosniaks

The Bosniaks or Bosniacs are a South Slavic ethnic group, living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a smaller minority also present in other lands of the Balkan Peninsula especially in Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia...

, 13.35% Serbs

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

, 6.91% Yugoslavs

Yugoslavs

Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...

, and 2.11% others. The town itself had 11,520 inhabitants.

• Settlement: Bos Srbs Croats Yugos Others Sum B% S% C% Y% O%
• Boris Kidric 1452 1013 1180 716 264 4625 31% 22% 26% 15% 6%
• Marsala Tita 1734 2168 1586 1154 253 6895 25% 31% 23% 17% 4%

Sourcehttp://www.hdmagazine.com/bosnia/census/cens-c.html.

Economy

The Yugoslav Wars

Yugoslav wars

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...

 and their consequences altered the way and quality of living in Novi Travnik. Economy of Novi Travnik was greatly dependent to the BNT "Bratstvo" which was almost completely disabled during the war. (See Banja Luka incident

Banja Luka incident

The Banja Luka incident on February 28, 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by United States Air Force F-16s southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia....

) MK "Bratstvo used to employ more than 7000 people and was the cornerstone of Novi Travnik.

External links

• http://www.novitravnik.info
• Official website of Novi Travnik
• http://www.novitravnik.org/ by Siba's Friends and Relatives Worldwide
• http://novitravnik.ca/
• Court of Novi Travnik
• Siba's Novi Travnik Homepage
• http://www.eko-fis.com.ba