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Vareš
Вареш

Municipality coat of arms

Municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina

General Information

Entity

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Land area

Population (2001 census)

13,293

Population density

Coordinates

44°10′N 18°20′E

Area code

+387 32

Mayor

Hamdo Fatić (SDP)

Website

http://www.vares.info

Vareš is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, famous for the local mining activities and production of iron. It is the seat of the municipality of Vareš, and part of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the 1991 census, the municipality of Vareš had 22,114 residents: 8,982 Croats (40.6%), 6,721 Bosniaks (30.4%), 3,630 Serbs (16.4%), and 2,781 others (12.6%).

Due to War, the population of the area had been reduced to 13,293 residents in the 2001 census. Ethnically, the municipality of Vareš had 9,700 Bosniaks (73.0%), 3,500 Croats (26.3%), 56 Serbs (0.4%), and 37 others (0.3%).

[edit] History

The town of Vareš has a rich history. There are remainings of metallurgical activities dating back to Bronze age. Also during Roman era the town was famous for its miners and smiths.

During middle ages the Bosnian kings had their center in close proximity of the modern city of Vareš. Bosnia's greatest king, Tvrtko, considered the Vareš' village Duboštica for the center of his kingdome, since it was the mining center of his country.

The remainings of the medieval royal city and castel Bobovac were recently proclaimed as national monuments, as was the Catholic church of St. Michael in the town of Vareš. Some of the oldest preserved Catholic churches in Bosnia can be found in the town.

The town was earlier dominated by Catholic (i.e. Croat or Bosnian-Croat) population. The church books are among the oldest preserved in Bosnia and date back to 1643.

During the Austrian rule of Bosnia-Herzegovina the ironworks of Vareš were an important exporter of various iron products to the rest of the Habsburg empire.

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Municipalities of the Zenica-Doboj Canton
Breza \| Doboj Jug \| Kakanj \| Maglaj \| Olovo \| Tešanj \| Usora \| Vareš \| Visoko \| Zavidovići \| Zenica \| Žepče \|

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