Pelagićevo

{{Short description|Town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina}}

{{Infobox settlement

| settlement_type = Town and municipality

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{Nowrap|{{Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}}}

| subdivision_type1 = Entity

| subdivision_name1 = {{Nowrap|{{Flag|Republika Srpska}}}}

| subdivision_type2 =

| subdivision_name2 =

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| unit_pref = Metric

| map_caption = Location of Pelagićevo within Bosnia and Herzegovina

| native_name = Пелагићево

| official_name = Pelagićevo

| other_name =

| image_shield = Pelagicevo - Coat of arms.svg

| image_map = Pelagićevo municipality.svg

| area_blank1_title = Town

| area_blank1_km2 =

| area_blank2_title = Municipality

| area_blank2_km2 = 122.49

| population_as_of = 2013 census

| population_blank1_title = Town

| population_blank1 = 2796

| population_density_blank1_km2 = auto

| population_blank2_title = Municipality

| population_blank2 = 5220

| population_density_blank2_km2 = auto

| coordinates = {{coord|44.90|N|18.61|E|region:BA|display=inline,title}}

| area_code = 54

| website =

| footnotes =

| leader_title = Municipal mayor

| leader_name = Slavko Tešić

| leader_party = SNSD

| name =

| image_map1 = Pelagićevo-naselja.png

}}

Pelagićevo ({{lang-sr-cyrl|Пелагићево}}) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Posavina geographical region. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,796 inhabitants, while the municipality has 5,220 inhabitants.

It was originally named Gornji Žabar, and was later renamed after Vaso Pelagić, a representative of utopian socialism in Serbia during the second half of the nineteenth century, born in the town in 1833.{{cite book |author=Roumen Daskalov, Diana Mishkova |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0RWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA233 |title=Entangled Histories of the Balkans – Volume Two |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004261914 |page=233}}

History

The municipality was created after the Dayton Agreement from part of the pre-war municipality of Gradačac (the other part of the pre-war municipality is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).{{Cite web|date=2015-07-18|title=КРАТАК ИСТОРИЈАТ ПЕЛАГИЋЕВА И ПОСАВИНЕ|url=http://srbiubih.com/uhy8gt6fgrtfdr/|access-date=2021-01-18|website=СРБИ У БИХ|language=sr-RS}}

Demographics

= Population =

class="wikitable"

! colspan="6" |Population of settlements – Pelagićevo municipality

|Settlements

|1971.

|1981.

|1991.

|2013.

|Total

|

|

|13,256

|5,220

1

|Blaževac

|

|

|

|318

2

|Donja Tramošnica

|

|

|

|381

3

|Gornja Tramošnica

|

|

|

|347

4

|Pelagićevo

|3,398

|3,214

|3,069

|2,529

5

|Porebrice

|

|

|

|344

6

|Turić

|

|

|

|293

= Ethnic composition =

class="wikitable"

! colspan="8" |Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo town

|2013.

|1991.

|1981.

|1971.

Total

|2,529 (100,0%)

|3,069 (100,0%)

|3,214 (100,0%)

|3,398 (100,0%)

Serbs

|2,502 (98,93%)

|2,968 (96,71%)

|3,103 (96,55%)

|3,340 (98,29%)

Croats

|12 (0,474%)

|16 (0,521%)

|22 (0,685%)

|36 (1,059%)

Others

|10 (0,395%)

|34 (1,108%)

|31 (0,965%)

|13 (0,383%)

Bosniaks

|5 (0,198%)

|4 (0,130%)

|5 (0,156%)

|6 (0,177%)

Yugoslavs

|

|47 (1,531%)

|47 (1,462%)

|

Macedonians

|

|

|4 (0,124%)

|2 (0,059%)

Albanians

|

|

|2 (0,062%)

|

Montenegrins

|

|

|

|1 (0,029%)

class="wikitable"

! colspan="8" |Ethnic composition – Pelagićevo municipality

|2013.

|1991.

Total

|5,220 (100,0%)

|13,256 (100,0%)

Serbs

|3,330 (63,79%)

|4,634 (34,96%)

Croats

|1,850 (35,44%)

|7,165 (54,05%)

Others

|27 (0,517%)

|721 (5,439%)

Bosniaks

|13 (0,249%)

|736 (5,552%)

See also

References

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