Višegrad
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Višegrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Вишеград) is a town in eastern portion of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the river Drina, located on the road from Goražde and Ustiprača towards Užice in Serbia.
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[edit] Population
According to the 1910 census, the relative majority in the Višegrad municipality were Orthodox Christians (48.62%).
In the census of 1991, the municipality of Višegrad had 21,199 residents, including:
- 62.81% Muslims by nationality
- 32.85% Serbs (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 1.48% Yugoslavs
- 0.17% Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2.69% others
The town of Višegrad itself had 11,668 inhabitants, including:
- 64% Muslims by nationality
- 29% Serbs
- 3% Yugoslavs
- 5% others
[edit] History
In 1992, Višegrad was the scene of some of the initial fighting and worst atrocities of the Bosnian War. [citation needed] The Bosniak population of the town was subsequently expelled and an estimated 3,000 of them were murdered during this process of ethnic clensing by men under the command of Serb warlord Milan Lukić, their bodies thrown to Drina from the bridge.[1] Many others were burned to death [2] and a notorious rape camp was estabilished in Vilina Vlas. [citation needed]
An account of the massacre is depicted in the journalistic comic Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco.
[edit] Features
The Bridge on the Drina, a novel by Nobel prize winning author Ivo Andrić about the history of the town is what the town is most widely known by. The nearby Serb Orthodox village of Sokolovići was the birthplace of one of the greatest Ottoman Grand Viziers, a Serb forcibly converted to Islam, by the name of Mehmed Paša Sokolović.
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