Breza

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For the village in Slovakia, see Breza, Slovakia.

Location of Breza in BiH

Breza is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, famous for the local mining activities and production of coal. It covers an area of 73 km² .It is the seat of the municipality of Breza, and part of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the 1991 census, the municipality of Breza had 17,317 residents: 13,079 Bosniaks, 851 Croats, 2,122 Serbs, and 1,265 others.

Breza was spared major destruction during the War. However, the population of the area had been reduced to 13,848 residents in the 2001 census. Ethnically, the municipality of Breza is owerwhelmingly Bosniaks.

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