Istočni Mostar
Istočni Mostar (Serbian Cyrillic: Источни Мостар, "East Mostar") is and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 257 inhabitants.
Istočni Mostar
Источни Мостар East Mostar | |
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 Road in the municipality | |
 Location of Istočni Mostar within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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| Coordinates: 43°24′40″N 18°0′17″E | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Republika Srpska |
| Government | |
| • Municipality president | Božo Sjeran (SDS) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 85.24 km2 (32.91 sq mi) |
| Population (2013 census) | |
| • Total | 257 |
| • Density | 3.0/km2 (7.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code(s) | 59 |
History
Istočni Mostar was created in 1995, following the end of the Bosnian War. It was known as Srpski Mostar (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски Мостар) until 2004, after which it was renamed to its current name Istočni Mostar. It was created from the Serb-inhabited part of the pre-war municipality of Mostar which is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH).
The seat of municipality is in Zijemlje,[1] with 187 inhabitants, most of whom are Serbs. The two other settlements are Kamena and Kokorina.
As of 2019, it is one of the smallest municipalities by number of inhabitants in Republika Srpska.[2]
Demographics
Population
| Population of settlements – Istočni Mostar municipality | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | 1991. | 2013. | |
| Total | 153 | 257 | |
| 1 | Istočni Mostar | 244 | |
Ethnic composition
| Ethnic composition – Istočni Mostar municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | |||||||
| Total | 257 (100,0%) | 152 (100,0%) | ||||||
| Serbs | 166 (64,59%) | 96 (63,16%) | ||||||
| Bosniaks | 78 (30,35%) | 57 (37,50%) | ||||||
| Croats | 11 (4,280%) | |||||||
| Others | 2 (0,778%) | |||||||
References
- The seat of municipality East Mostar Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Milojević, Milkica (30 June 2019). "PATULJASTE OPŠTINE U SRPSKOJ Tri sela, sto stanovnika i gradonačelnica". srpskainfo.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 25 August 2019.
External links
Media related to Istočni Mostar at Wikimedia Commons
