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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 ...
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.
41 captured. 900 killed. ~1,000 wounded. Thousands of Serb civilians displaced. Operation Sana (Bosnian: Operacija Sana) was the final military offensive of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine – ARBiH) in western Bosnia and Herzegovina and the last major battle of the Bosnian War.
The Battle of Lijevče Field (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Lijevča polju, Битка на Лијевча пољу) was fought between 30 March and 8 April 1945 between the Croatian Armed Forces (HOS, the amalgamated Ustashe Militia and Croatian Home Guard forces) and Chetnik forces on the Lijevče field near Banja Luka in what was then the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
Beginning in 1991, political upheavals in Bosnia and Herzegovina displaced about 2.7 million people by mid-1992, of which over 700,000 sought asylum in other European countries, [11] [12] making it the largest exodus in Europe since World War II. It is estimated between 1.0 and 1.3 million people were uprooted in these ethnic cleansing ...
Banj brdo. Banj brdo ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бањ брдо, which can be translated as Banj hill ), before known as Šehitluci ( Serbian Cyrillic: Шехитлуци) is a 431 meter hill as well as tourist and recreation place in Banja Luka, part of the Bjeljavina mountain. On top of the hill stands the Monument to fallen Krajina soldiers, a work ...
The siege of Bihać was a three-year-long siege of the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihać by the Army of the Republika Srpska, the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and Bosnian Muslim dissenters led by Fikret Abdić during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. [11][12][13] The siege lasted for three years, from June 1992 until 4–5 August 1995 ...
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]