Brčko (city)
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Brčko (Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian: Brčko (Latin) and Брчко (Cyrillic)) is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies on the country's border along the Sava river across from Gunja, Croatia
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[edit] Geography
Brčko is the seat of the Brčko District, an independent unit of local self-government created on the territory of Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina following an arbitration process; the process is viewed as violation of the Dayton Peace Accords because it created the district while it could only arbitrate the disputed portion of the Inter-Entity Boundary Line, also known as the Zone of Separation (ZOS). The local administration is aided by an international supervisory regime headed by Susan R. Johnson of the United States of America.
[edit] History
Brčko was a geographic point of contention in 1996 when the U.S.-led Implementation Forces (IFOR) built McGovern Base on the outskirts of the city. Camp McGovern as it is known was built in the ZOS for the purpose of establishing peacekeeping operations, specifically between Muslims in Gornji Rahić and Serbs in Brčko. Tensions were mainly over disputed properties within the ZOS which both sides claimed were theirs. In some cases Muslims rebuilt their reclaimed properties during the day, and then would find their newly-repaired homes destroyed overnight after the Muslims left the ZOS to return to Gornji Rahić. The explosions were typically in threes, which was a symbolic gesture from the Serbs known as Trojka.
[edit] Features
Brčko has the largest port in Bosnia, on the Sava river. It is also home to an economics faculty and to a rather important theater festival.
[edit] Famous residents
The city's most famous citizens are Lepa Brena (real name Fahreta Jahić Živojinović), a popular folk music singer in the Balkans singer, and Edo Maajka (Edin Osmić), famous Bosnian rapper.
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- Mapping from Multimap or GlobalGuide or Google Maps
- Aerial image from TerraServer
- Satellite image from WikiMapia
