Rudo
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Rudo Рудо |
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Location of Rudo within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||
Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
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Government | |||
- Mayor | Milko Čolaković (SNSD) [1] | ||
Area | |||
- Total | 344 km² (132.8 sq mi) | ||
Population (1991) | |||
- Total | 11,572 | ||
- Municipality | ? | ||
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
- Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
Area code(s) | 58 |
Rudo (Cyrillic: Рудо , Ottoman Turkish Sokul or Sokullu) is a town and municipality in eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina near the border with Serbia. It appears in Ivo Andrić's story "The Beys of Rudo."
[edit] Demographics
[edit] 1971
15.982 total
- Serbs - 10.155 (63,54%)
- Muslims - 5.532 (34,61%)
- Croats - 18 (0,11%)
- Yugoslavs - 80 (0,50%)
- others - 197 (1,24%)
In 1991, the population of the Rudo municipality numbered 11,572 people, including:
- 8,191 Serbs (70.78%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 3,142 Bosniaks (27.15%)
- 93 Yugoslavs
- 5 Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 141 others
The town of Rudo itself in 1991 had a population of 3,109, including:
- 2,103 Serbs (68%)
- 869 Bosniaks (28%)
- 66 Yugoslavs
- 3 Croats
- 68 others
[edit] See also