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Between 25 May and 28 May 1995 a number of artillery projectiles were fired at Tuzla from Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) positions near the village of Panjik on Mount Ozren some 25 km west of Tuzla. On 25 May 1995 ( Marshal Tito 's birthday and Relay of Youth in former Yugoslavia) at 20:55 hours, a high-explosive fragmentation shell fired by a ...
The 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Tuzla, also known as Tuzla column (Serbo-Croatian: Tuzlanska kolona, Тузланска колона) was an attack on the 92nd Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the Bosnian city of Tuzla on 15 May 1992. The incident occurred at the road junction of Brčanska Malta.
Tuzla Island is a sandy island off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula. Formerly a spit connected by land to the Kuban region of Russia, it was disconnected from it by a heavy storm in 1925. In 1941, the island was transferred to the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, which was part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
The name Tuzla is the Ottoman Turkish word for salt mine, tuzla, and refers to the extensive salt deposits found underneath the city, mined for export as a large source of Ottoman tax revenue. Leveraging on their shared name, the city is twinned with Tuzla , a suburb of Istanbul , Turkey .
"Croatian Messenger") is monthly magazine published by HKD Napredak in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The magazine is published in Croatian and is popular among the Croats of northeast Bosnia. [1] It was founded in December 1992 by franciscan fra Petro Matanović as the first Croatian magazine after the fall of communism.
Tuzla International was once the largest military airport in the former Yugoslavia.The 350th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron was active there for a time.. In the early 1990s, still within Yugoslavia and prior start of the Bosnian War, Yugoslav airliner Air Commerce performed commercial flights from Sarajevo and Tuzla to Austria and Switzerland.
Tuzla station was the site of a terrorist attack on 12 December 1994. On the morning of 12 December at 9:12 AM, a time bomb placed in a trash can detonated, killing 5 people and injuring 29. The 5 people who died in the explosion were all cadets from the nearby Tuzla Infantry Academy, who were on their weekly leave.
The 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of demonstrations and riots that began in the northern town of Tuzla on 4 February 2014 but quickly spread to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, Zenica, Mostar, Jajce, and Brčko, [14] [15] among others, for social reasons and with the aim of overthrowing the government.