Višegrad

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Вишеград
Višegrad

Coat of arms Image:Coat of arms Location in Republika Srpska Shown in bright red (click to enlarge) The light red indicates the Republika Srpska entity General Information Entity Republika Srpska Municipality area  ? km² Population - (est.) ? - (1991 census) 21,199 Area code +387 58 Time zone CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) Politics Mayor Miladin Miličević (SDS) [1]

Višegrad (Cyrillic: Вишеград) is a town and municipality in the eastern part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is on the river Drina, located on the road from Goražde and Ustiprača towards Užice in Serbia.

Contents 1 Population 2 History 3 Features 4 Gallery 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Population

According to the 1910 census, the plurality 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% Bosniaks
• 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% Bosniaks
• 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 Bosnian Muslim population of the town was subsequently expelled and an estimated 3,000 of them were murdered during this process of ethnic cleansing by men under the command of Serb warlord Milan Lukić, their bodies thrown into the Drina from the bridge. [2] Many others were burned to death [3] 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.^{[citation needed]}

[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. His statue was torn down in 1992 by Murat Šabanović, a member of the Bosnian army, with a sledgehammer. 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.

[edit] Gallery

The bridge in 2006	Department store in the city center	Cultural House with steam locomotive in the front garden	Stone plate (Kapija) on the center pillar
Hydro power station at Drina reservoir	View on the city with the newly built mosque	The bridge and uniquely green river, as only Drina can be!

[edit] See also

• Podrinje

[edit] External links

• Višegrad

Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Coordinates: 43°47′N 19°17′E