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The Banja Luka massacre was the mass killing of 2,300 Serb civilians by the Croatian fascist Ustaše movement on 7 February 1942, during World War II in the villages of Drakulić, Šargovac and Motike near Banja Luka, which were then part of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Adolf Hitler set up the ...
www.banjaluka.rs.ba. Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бања Лука, pronounced [bǎɲa lǔːka] ⓘ) or Banjaluka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бањалука, pronounced [baɲalǔːka]) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska, of which it is also the de facto capital. [2]
Ethnic cleansing occurred during the Bosnian War (1992–95) as large numbers of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Croats were forced to flee their homes or were expelled by the Army of Republika Srpska and Serb paramilitaries. [6][7][8][9] Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs had also been forced to flee or were expelled by Bosnian Croat forces ...
Necropolis for the victims of Fascism. Novi Travnik. Designed by Bogdan Bogdanović, opened in 1975. Monument to the Revolution. Grmeč. Located in the Korčanica Memorial Zone of the Grmeč. Monument to the fallen Frontiersmen. Banja Luka. Dedicated to fallen frontier soldiers in the Banj hill.
There were 1,322 individuals who were decorated with the Order of the People's hero of Yugoslavia between 1942 and 1973. Many busts and memorials were built in honor of each People's hero. Each of them usually had a bust in his birthplace or at the place of his death. Most of these monuments are built in figurative style, but some of them were ...
Before World War II, Banja Luka's Jewish Community consisted of a few hundred families. They were nearly all wiped out during the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. Today the number of Jewish families in Banja Luka is in the order of tens. The Jewish cultural center Arie Livne was opened in Banja Luka in 2015.
Banski Dvor. / 44.7731; 17.1924. Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić, Anđelija Pavlović and Jovan Ž. Ranković. Banski Dvor ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бански двор) is a building and cultural center in Banja Luka. It was built in the period 1931–32 as the seat of Duke ("Ban") of Vrbas Banovina, an administrative region of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The Palace of the Republic ( Serbian: Палата Републике, Palata Republike) is the official residence of the President of Republika Srpska . It is located in the Center of Banja Luka alongside the famous "Gospodska" street near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Banski Dvor and City Assembly building. During its existence it was ...