Sanski Most

It is located on the Sana River in Bosanska Krajina, between Prijedor and Ključ. Administratively it is part of the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Town sits on Nine Rivers, and they are : Sana, Dabar, Zdena, Bliha, Majdanska Rijeka, Japra, Sasinka and Kozica

{{Weather box

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| location = Sanski Most (1991–2020)

| precipitation colour = green

| Jan record high C = 20.2

| Feb record high C = 24.7

| Mar record high C = 29.2

| Apr record high C = 30.9

| May record high C = 34.5

| Jun record high C = 36.6

| Jul record high C = 39.7

| Aug record high C = 40.0

| Sep record high C = 37.5

| Oct record high C = 30.2

| Nov record high C = 26.4

| Dec record high C = 22.7

| year record high C = 40.0

| Jan high C = 5.5

| Feb high C = 8.5

| Mar high C = 13.6

| Apr high C = 18.5

| May high C = 22.8

| Jun high C = 26.6

| Jul high C = 28.7

| Aug high C = 28.9

| Sep high C = 23.2

| Oct high C = 18.0

| Nov high C = 12.0

| Dec high C = 6.0

| year high C = 17.7

| Jan mean C = 0.8

| Feb mean C = 2.4

| Mar mean C = 6.7

| Apr mean C = 11.3

| May mean C = 15.7

| Jun mean C = 19.7

| Jul mean C = 21.3

| Aug mean C = 20.8

| Sep mean C = 15.8

| Oct mean C = 11.3

| Nov mean C = 6.6

| Dec mean C = 1.7

| year mean C = 11.2

| Jan low C = -3.1

| Feb low C = -2.5

| Mar low C = 0.9

| Apr low C = 4.9

| May low C = 9.2

| Jun low C = 13.0

| Jul low C = 14.4

| Aug low C = 14.3

| Sep low C = 10.4

| Oct low C = 6.5

| Nov low C = 2.5

| Dec low C = -1.8

| year low C = 5.7

| Jan record low C = -26.4

| Feb record low C = -25.2

| Mar record low C = -20.4

| Apr record low C = -6.3

| May record low C = -1.1

| Jun record low C = 0.5

| Jul record low C = 4.5

| Aug record low C = 4.0

| Sep record low C = -0.6

| Oct record low C = -6.8

| Nov record low C = -10.4

| Dec record low C = -21.4

| year record low C = -26.4

| Jan precipitation mm = 71.7

| Feb precipitation mm = 73.2

| Mar precipitation mm = 75.1

| Apr precipitation mm = 90.8

| May precipitation mm = 101.7

| Jun precipitation mm = 101.5

| Jul precipitation mm = 75.3

| Aug precipitation mm = 68.2

| Sep precipitation mm = 117.7

| Oct precipitation mm = 99.2

| Nov precipitation mm = 94.3

| Dec precipitation mm = 93.5

| year precipitation mm = 1062.1

| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm

| Jan precipitation days = 8.8

| Feb precipitation days = 9.1

| Mar precipitation days = 9.0

| Apr precipitation days = 10.4

| May precipitation days = 10.3

| Jun precipitation days = 9.5

| Jul precipitation days = 7.7

| Aug precipitation days = 6.9

| Sep precipitation days = 9.3

| Oct precipitation days = 8.9

| Nov precipitation days = 9.8

| Dec precipitation days = 10.3

| year precipitation days = 109.9

| Jan sun = 74.3

| Feb sun = 99.7

| Mar sun = 148.8

| Apr sun = 179.7

| May sun = 224.5

| Jun sun = 250.7

| Jul sun = 290.8

| Aug sun = 267.7

| Sep sun = 173.7

| Oct sun = 130.8

| Nov sun = 78.8

| Dec sun = 62.5

| year sun = 1981.9

|source 1 = NOAA{{cite web

| url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/BosniaAndHerzegovina/CSV/SANSKI_MOST_14537.csv

| title = Sanski Most Climate Normals 1991–2020

| work = World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020)

| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

| access-date = 4 September 2023}}

}}

In 1878, the little town (varošica) of Sanski Most was described as having a majority Bosnian Muslim population by the Croatian historian Vjekoslav Klaić.{{cite book|first=Vjekoslav|last=Klaić|title=Bosna: podatci o zemljopisu i poviesti Bosne i Hercegovine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8lDAAAAYAAJ|year=1878|publisher=Naklad. "Matice Hrvatske"|page=192}} From 1929 to 1941, Sanski Most was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

During World War II, it was part of the Axis Independent State of Croatia (NDH), where the fascist Ustaše regime committed the Genocide of the Serbs and the Holocaust. At the beginning of May 1941 in several villages southeast of Sanski Most (Kijevo, Tramošnja, Kozica, etc.) the first armed conflict between the Ustaše and insurgent Serbs occurred. The event is known as the Đurđevdan uprising. In August 1941 on the Eastern Orthodox Elijah's holy day, who is the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina, between 2,800 and 5,500 Serbs from Sanski Most and the surrounding area were killed by the Ustaše and thrown into pits which had been dug by the victims themselves.{{cite book|last=Mojzes|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Mojzes|title=Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century|year=2011|location=Lanham|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442206632|pages=75–76}} The State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) held its second meeting from 30 June to 2 July 1944 in the town; it declared the equality of Muslims (Bosniaks), Serbs and Croats.

When the German and Italian Zones of Influence were revised on 24 June 1942, Sanski Most fell in {{ill|Zone III (NDH)|lt=Zone III|hr|Treća zona (NDH)}}, administered civilly by Croatia and militarily by Croatia and Germany.{{sfn|Trgo|1964|p=341}}

During the onset of the Bosnian War, the town was captured by the Army of Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serbs) and remained under its control until October 1995 when the Bosnian Army captured it during Operation Sana shortly before the end of the war. The Bosniaks and other non-Serbs were sent to large ethnic cleansing during its control by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). Following its capture by the Bosnian Army in October 1995, many Serbs from Sanski Most and Bosniaks from Prijedor exchanged homes due to their refugee status and the opposing federations.{{Sfn|Gilbert|2020|p=110}}

On 31 May 1992, the Army of Republika Srpska committed a massacre of 19 Bosniak civilians on the Vrhpolje bridge in Sanski Most municipality. 16 Bosniak civilians were beaten on the bridge whilst the Bosnian Serb soldiers insulted them. 4 had already been murdered by the VRS on the way to the bridge. The Bosnian Serbs had ordered the Bosniak civilians to remove most of their clothes, including their shoes, and then jump off the bridge. The Bosnian Serb soldiers played a game in which they would attempt to shoot the Bosniak civilians mid-air whilst they were falling into the water. There was only one survivor of the massacre, Rajif Begić, who later testified against Ratko Mladić. According to the ICTY trial, Ratko Mladić was responsible for the murder of the Bosniak civilians which the court found was a deliberate attempt to ethnically cleanse the Serb-controlled parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina of their Bosniak population in order to create a homogenously Serb ethno-state. According to Begić's testimony, the VRS had to kill 70 Muslims that day because "seven Serb soldiers had been killed in that area." Branko Basara, the retired commander of the 6th Krajina Brigade was also indicted by the ICTY for war crimes that he committed in the Prijedor and Sanski Most area during 1992. Jadranko Palija, a Bosnian Serb soldier responsible for the massacre, was convicted of war crimes by the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007.{{Cite web |last=Refugees |first=United Nations High Commissioner for |title=Refworld {{!}} Mladić Witness Denies Army Role in Sanski Most Killings |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/55408c0f4.html |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=Refworld |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Witness Recalls Sanski Most Bridge Killings |url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/witness-recalls-sanski-most-bridge-killings |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=iwpr.net |language=en}}

In 1996, Serb-inhabited Oštra Luka was split from Sanski Most and ceded to the Republika Srpska entity.

On August 21, 2024 a man opened fire at the Sanski Most Gymnasium secondary school with an automatic rifle, killing three people.{{Cite web |title=Tri osobe ubijene u pucnjavi u gimnaziji u Sanskom mostu |url=https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2024/8/21/tri-osobe-ubijene-u-pucnjavi-u-gimnaziji-u-sanskom-mostu |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=Al Jazeera Balkans |language=bs}}

There are several non-governmental organisations in Sanski Most. The Center for Peacebuilding (in the local language "Centar za Izgradnju Mira (CIM)) has been active in the town since 2004. The "Fenix Center" provides humanitarian aid to people in need in the local community. The organisation "Krajiška Suza" provides care in medical, social, psychological, cultural and existential needs of people living in and around Sanski Most. Austrian manufacturer of exhaust pipes Remus has a manufacturing facility in Sanski Most that employs around 300 people.{{Cite web|title=Remus to build a new production facility in Sanski Most|url=https://www.see-industry.com/en/remus-to-build-a-new-production-facility-in-sanski-most/2/1627/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.see-industry.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2012-12-27|title=Remus Innovation will hire 300 workers in Sanski Most|url=https://www.sarajevotimes.com/remus-innovation-will-hire-300-workers-in-sanski-most/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Sarajevo Times}} Sanski Most was selected as one of the most successful local communities within the UNDP project that was financed by the Swiss embassy.{{Cite web|last=Fena|title=Sanski Most privlači sve više investicija i ostvaruje veliki ekonomski napredak|url=https://radiosarajevo.ba/biznis/ekonomija/sanski-most-privlaci-sve-vise-investicija-i-ostvaruje-veliki-ekonomski-napredak/328088|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Radio Sarajevo}}

The football club of the town is NK Podgrmeč.

• Mehmed Alagić, general
• Milan Vukić, chess grandmaster
• Anna Ibrišagić, Swedish politician
• Enver Redžić, historian
• Kemal Malovčić, singer
• Milenko Zorić, Serbian sprint canoer, silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics, World and European champion
• Vukašin Brajić, singer
• Milka Milinković, Paralympic track and field athlete, Croatia's most successful Paralympian

Sanski Most1.JPG|The Sana river

Sanski Most3.JPG|Hamzibey's mosque

Sanski Most - Pravoslavna crkva.jpg|An Orthodox church

• Una-Sana Canton
• Bosanska Krajina

{{Reflist}}

{{Cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Andrew |title=International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2020}}

• {{cite book |date=1964 |editor-first=Fabijan |editor-last=Trgo |title=Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o Narodno-oslobodilačkom ratu Jugoslovenskih naroda |volume=V,32 |url=https://znaci.org/zb/4_5_32.htm}}

{{Commons category|Sanski Most}}

• [http://www.sanskimost.gov.ba/ Official site]
• http://www.sanskimost.com/
• http://www.sanski-most.info
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090106174502/http://www.sanskaognjista.org/
• [http://www.unvocim.net Center for Peacebuilding web presence]
• [http://www.ksuza.ba Krajiška Suza web presence]

{{Villages of Sanski Most}}

{{Una Sana Canton}}

{{Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina}}

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