Small Town Series: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Updated: Sep 10, 2020
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Here is another installment of the Small Town series. Today's country is Bosnia & Herzegovina. All of these small towns have 50,000 inhabitants or less. I will be covering 7 different towns in today's post. I have included as much as I can about each small town.
Population numbers come from worldpopulationreview.com
Brcko- 38,968 inhabitants
Brčko is a city and the administrative seat of Brčko District, in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies on the banks of Sava river across from Croatia. Brčko is the only entirely self-governing free city currently in existence in Europe.
Visoko- 17,890 inhabitants
Visoko is a city located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Located between Zenica and Sarajevo, Visoko lies on the Bosna river where the river Fojnica merges into it.The Visoko region has evidence of long continuous occupation, with the first traces of life dating back to 5th millennium BC, and archaeological excavations of Okolište have found one of the biggest neolithic settlement belonging to Butmir culture in southeast Europe. It was an early political and commercial center of the Bosnian medieval state, and the site where the first Bosnian king Tvrtko I was crowned. Old town Visoki, located on Visočica hill was politically important fortress, and its inner bailey Podvisoki was an early example of a Bosnian medieval urban area. After the fall of the Kingdom of Bosnia, medieval Visoko grew as an Ottoman town, and a key role in development was played by local Bosnian Ajas-pasha. Ottoman rule ended in 1878 when Bosnian Vilayet was occupied by Austria-Hungary. On 11 November 1911, in the last years of Austro-Hungarian rule, it was almost completely burned down by fire, which was started by accident. Before the Bosnian War, Visoko was the largest exporter of textile and leather in socialist Yugoslavia As of 2006, Visoko is hosts tens of thousands of tourists mainly because of Semir Osmanagić claims.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-hercegovina/visoko
Konjic- 15,950 inhabitants
Konjic is a town and municipality located in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in northern Herzegovina, around 60 kilometres southwest of Sarajevo. It is a mountainous, heavily wooded area, and is 268 m above sea level. The town is one of the oldest permanent settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, dating back almost 4000 years; the city in its current incarnation arising as an important town in the late 14th century.
Brod- 9,249 inhabitants
Brod is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the south bank of the river Sava, in the western part of the Posavina region.
Visegrad- 6,087 inhabitants
Višegrad is a town and municipality located in eastern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is resting at the confluence of the Drina and the Rzav river. The town includes the Ottoman-era Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO world heritage site which was popularized by Ivo Andrić in his novel The Bridge on the Drina. A tourist site called Andrićgrad (Andrić Town), dedicated to Andrić, is located near the bridge.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-hercegovina/visegrad
Neum- 4,960 inhabitants
Neum is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity. It is the only town to be situated along Bosnia and Herzegovina's 20 km of coastline, making it the country's only access to the Adriatic Sea.
Pocitelj- 1,000 inhabitants
Počitelj is historic village and an open-air museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the municipality of Čapljina, in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The historic village is situated on the left bank of the river Neretva, on the main road Mostar-Metković, and it is about 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the south of Mostar and about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from center of Čapljina.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-hercegovina/pocitelj
There we have it another 7 small towns that are well worth seeing. Only two more posts of the Small Town Series are left. Enjoy!!
