Pelagicevo
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Pelagićevo is a village and a municipality in Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

, one of two entities comprising 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...

. Pelagićevo is located in Bosanska Posavina
Posavina
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. Pelagicevo is got a name under the prominent revolutionary and publicists from Bosnia and Herzegovina Vaso Pelagić
Vaso Pelagić
Vaso Pelagić was a representative of the utopian socialism of the Serbs in the second half of the nineteenth century, a professor and a physician....

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History

Municipality was created after the Dayton Agreement
Dayton Agreement
The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on...

 from part of the pre-war municipality of Gradačac
Gradacac
Gradačac is a town and municipality in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located roughly south of the Sava river. Administratively, Gradačac is part of the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

 (the other part of the pre-war municipality is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1991

In 1991, the population of the Pelagićevo village numbered 537 people, of whom 532 (99%) were 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...

. (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are people of Serb ethnicity inhabiting the Balkan regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or, since the establishment of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state in the 1990s, the Serbs who have its citizenship. The Serbs are one of the three constitutive nations of this...

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Current population

In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of the municipality were ethnic Serbs. The municipality has a population of about 7,865.

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