| Kostajnica / Костајница Bosanska Kostajnica / Босанска Костајница |
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| Hrvatska Kostajnica (left) and Bosanska Kostajnica (right) | |||
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| Location of Kostajnica within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Entity | Republika Srpska | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Marko Čolić (SNSD[1]) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Area code(s) | 52 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
Kostajnica, also known as Bosanska Kostajnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Босанска Костајница), is a town and municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town and municipality are situated in the north-western part of the Republika Srpska entity and northern part of the Bosanska Krajina region. The municipality was created from part of the pre-war municipality of Bosanski Novi. It is located across the Una from Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia.
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During the Bosnian War, it was renamed to Srpska Kostajnica (Српска Костајница). After the war, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina decreed that name is unconstitutional. After that, name of the town was changed to Kostajnica.[2]
In the 1991 census, Bosanska Kostajnica was part of the Bosanski Novi municipality, and its population numbered 3,768 people, including:[3]
Note: The vast majority of those who declared as Muslims by nationality in 1991 have considered themselves Bosniaks since the Bosnian War.
In 2006, the majority of inhabitants of municipality were ethnic Bosnian Serbs.