Goražde

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Goražde

Municipality coat of arms

Municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina

General Information

Entity

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Canton

Bosnian Podrinje Canton

Land area

252 km²

Population 1999

36496

Population density

144,8/km²

Coordinates

43°40′N 18°59′E

Area code

+387 38

Mayor

Mustafa Kurtović (SDA)

Website

http://www.gorazde.ba

Goražde is a city and municipality in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river. It is located between Foča, Sokolac and Višegrad, and is administratively part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the center of the Bosnian Podrinje Canton.

In 1991, the municipality of Goražde was inhabited by 37,505 people: 26,316 Bosniaks (70.2%), 9,844 Serbs (26.2%), 776 Yugoslavs (2.1%), 83 Croats (0.2%), and 486 others (1.3%). The town of Goražde itself had 18,755 residents: 11,743 Bosniaks, 5,888 Serbs, 65 Croats, 672 Yugoslavs and 384 others.

From 1992 to 1995 during the Bosnian war, Goražde was one of three Bosniak enclaves, along with Srebrenica and Žepa, surrounded and besieged by the Bosnian Serbs. In April 1993 it was made into a 'safe area' in which the UN was supposed to protect the civilian population from attack. Between March 30, and April 23, 1994 the Serbs launched a major offensive against the town. Virtually all of the UN peacekeepers fled and 694 people were killed and another 1,917 were wounded before the offensive was stopped. The majority of the casualties were civilians. The city held out until the end of the war and in the end it was to become the only town in eastern Bosnia not to be ethnically cleansed by the Serbs. After the Dayton accords were negotiated a land corridor was established between Gorazde and the Federation.

[edit] References

Joe Sacco: Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995, 2002, Fantagraphics Books, ISBN 1560974702

[edit] External links

Official Website (Bosnian)
Gorazde Info website (Bosnian) (English)
Gorazde Informational portal (Bosnian)

Municipalities of the Bosnian Podrinje Canton
Goražde \| Pale-Prača \| Foča-Ustikolina \|

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