Čelinac
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Čelinac (Cyrillic: Челинац) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies c. 15 km to the east of Banja Luka. The Stuplje monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church is located in the municipality.
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[edit] Geography
It is located between municipalities of Laktaši and Prnjavor in the north, Teslić in the east, Kotor Varoš and Kneževo in the south, and Banja Luka in the west.
[edit] Demographics
[edit] 1991
In 1991, the population of Čelinac municipality was 18,666, including:
- 16,591 Serbs (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 1,440 Muslims by nationality
- 360 Yugoslavs
- 79 Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 196 others
[edit] 2006
In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Serbs. [2]
[edit] Inhabited places
In the municipality of Čelinac you can also find the villages Josavka, Snjegotina, and Grabovac. Serbs are the overwhelming majority in these villages (99.9%) and most of the natives of these villages have emigrated to Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovenia, because of a high degree of poverty in this municipality.
[edit] See also
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