Rogatica
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Rogatica (Serbian Cyrillic: Рогатица) is a municipality and town in eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located 60 kilometres east of Sarajevo; midway on the road from Goražde towards Sokolac. The village of Žepa is located in the Rogatica municipality.
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[edit] Demographics
In the census of 1991, the municipality had 21,812 residents, the ethnic distribution of which were; *13,169 (60.38%) Muslims by nationality
- 3,374 (38.39%) Serbs (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 185 (0.85%) Yugoslavs
- 18 (0.08%) Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 66 (0.30%) others
The town of Rogatica itself had 8,930 inhabitants:
- 5,662 (63%) Muslims by nationality
- 3,062 (34%) Serbs
- 139 (2%) Yugoslavs
- 1% others
Note: Most Muslims by nationality today consider themselves Bosniaks.
No census has been conducted since 1991, but estimates put the population at around 18,000, mostly Serbs.[1]
[edit] History
In 1992, during the first year of the war all of the Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) population was expelled from the Rogatica municipality, with the sole exception of Žepa. In July 1995 the remainder of the Bosniak population was expelled when Žepa fell to the Serbs. An estimated 1,133 Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) were killed between 1992-1995 in Rogatica.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Unofficial Rogatica website(Bosnian)
- Another unofficial Rogatica website(Bosnian)
- List of people from Rogatica killed in the war(Bosnian)
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