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Prijedor (Cyrilic: Приједор) is a city and municipality in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the Sana river, between Novi Grad and Banja Luka. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity.

Demographics

According to date from the 1991 census, the municipality of Prijedor had 112,470 inhabitants: 49,454 Bosniaks¹ (44%), 47,745 Serbs (42.4%), 6,371 Yugoslavs (5.66%), 6,300 Croats (5.64%) and 2,600 others (2.3%). The city of Prijedor had 45,000 residents. After Banja Luka, Prijedor is the second largest city in the entity of Republika Srpska.

Geography

Prijedor is located in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosanska Krajina. It is located between towns of Sanski Most to the south, the Novi Grad (to the west) and Bosanska Dubica (to the north), and the regional capital of Banja Luka to the east. Except for the area of Sanski Most, the other neighbouring districts had Serbian majority populations prior to the Bosnian war.

Two smaller towns Ljubija and Kozarac still belong to the municipality of Prijedor, as well as numerous villages and hamlets. The Sana river flows through the municipality (which has a shape that resembles an irregular vertical rectangle) from the west towards the centre, and then bending to the south. The town of Prijedor is located in the valley of the river, where the Sana river bends to the south. There is a large artificial lake for fishfarming to the south-east of Prijedor town. The district is mountainous especially in the northern and western areas, with forested Kozara mountain in the north and parts of the Majdanska mountain in the south-west.

History

As part of northern border zone of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prijedor was part of a corridor that Serbs wanted to establish between Serbia and the Serb-controled Republic of Serbian Krajina. One obstacle to such a corridor is that when crossing the Drina River (the frontier between Serbia proper and BiH) and moving westward through BiH towards the Krajina region, the pre-war population was multi- ethnic and the Serbs were not a majority in many of these areas. Any Serbian demands for territory for a corridor were thus unlikely to gain political support in BiH. In 1993, Serbian military leaders in Banja Luka acknowledged the need for the conquest of a corridor as mentioned. It was a prerequisite for the "bringing in of humanitarian assistance".

^{1. In the 1991 census, Bosniaks were registered as Muslims by nationality.}

Cities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Banja Luka | Bihać | Bijeljina | Bosanska Gradiška | Bosanska Krupa | Bosanski Brod | Šamac | Bratunac | Brčko | Bugojno | Cazin | Čapljina | Derventa | Doboj | Donji Vakuf | Drvar | Foča | Gornji Vakuf | Gračanica | Gradačac | Ilidža | Jajce | Kakanj | Kalesija | Konjic | Livno | Lukavac | Ljubuški | Modriča | Mostar | Neum | Nevesinje | Novi Grad | Novi Travnik | Posušje | Prijedor | Sanski Most | Sarajevo | Srebrenica | Srebrenik | Stolac | Široki Brijeg | Teočak | Teslić | Tešanj | Tomislavgrad | Travnik | Trebinje | Tuzla | Velika Kladuša | Visoko | Vitez | Zavidovići | Zenica | Zvornik | Žepče | Živinice

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