Previle (former municipality)

Location of former municipality of Previle
Previle
Location of the former municipality of Previle on modern map of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Previle (Serbian Cyrillic: Превиле) was a municipality of the former Kotor-Varoš srez in the Banja Luka okrug, in former Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia[1] and FPR Yugoslavia), that existed until 1955. Today, the former municipality constitutes the territory of the villages of Boljanići, Hadrovci, Jakotina, Ravne, Sokoline, Vagani, Varjače, Viševice, Vranić, located in the Kotor Varoš municipality, and Javorani, located in the Kneževo/Skender Vakuf municipality. It had a Serb ethnic majority according to the 1953 census. It was a site of military operations during World War II.[2]

According to the 1953 census, the 4,576 inhabitants identified ethnically as:[3]

Municipality populations of Kotor Varoš County, 1953

Census area Total Serbs Croats Slovenians Macedonians Crnogorci Yugoslavs
undecided		 Czechs Poljaci Resins
– Ukrainians		 Other Slavs Other Non-Slavs
KOTOR VAROŠ COUNTY 37898 25008 6485 4 4 10 6375 2 – 2 – 8
Kotor Varoš 4715 805 2640 2 3 6 1253 1 – 1 – 4
Maslovare 4574 3966 8 – – – 600 – – – – –
Previle 4576 3537 696 – – – 342 – – – – 1
Skender Vakuf 7100 6566 16 – – – 518 – – – – –
Šiprage 7746 6036 24 1 1 – 1682 – – – – 2
Vrbanjci 4919 1678 1728 1 – 4 1505 1 – 1 – 1
Zabrđe 4268 2420 1373 – – – 475 – – – – –

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References

  1. ↑ Tih. J. Arandelovic. Imenik - Registar, Naseljenih Mesta Kraljevine Jugoslavije. p. 34.
  2. ↑ Vojnoistorijski institut (1954). "Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodnooslobodilačkom ratu naroda Jugoslavija". 4 (8). Belgrade: Vojnoistorijski institut: 255.
  3. ↑ "Statistički zavod FNRJ, Izd. (1954): Popis stanovništva i stanova 1953. SZFNRJ" (PDF).
  4. ↑ http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1953/pdf/G19534001.pdf.

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