Rudo is a town and municipality in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 near the border with Serbia

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. It appears in Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andric

Ivan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...

's story "The Beys

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 of Rudo."

1971

15,982 total

• Serbs – 10.155 (63.54%)
• Muslims – 5.532 (34.61%)
• Croats – 18 (0.11%)
• Yugoslavs – 80 (0.50%)
• Others – 197 (1.24%)

In 1991, the population of the Rudo municipality numbered 11,572 people, including:

• 8,191 Serbs
  Serbs
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   (70.78%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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  )
• 3,142 Bosniaks
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  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...
  
   (27.15%)
• 93 Yugoslavs
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• 5 Croats
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  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...
  
   (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina form one of the three constitutive nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.There is no precise data regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina's population since the last war. Ethnic cleansing within Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s saw the vast majority of Croats move and take...
  
  )
• 141 others

The town of Rudo itself in 1991 had a population of 3,109, including:

• 2,103 Serbs (68%)
• 869 Bosniaks (28%)
• 66 Yugoslavs
• 3 Croats
• 68 others

Sokollu Mehmet Paşa was also born in this town.

See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska
  Municipalities of Republika Srpska
  Under the "Law on Territorial Organization and Local Self-Government" adopted in 1994, Republika Srpska was divided into 80 municipalities. After the conclusion of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the law was amended in 1996 to reflect the changes to the entity's borders and now provides for the...