Donja Bočinja

Donja Bočinja
Village
Donja Bočinja
Coordinates: BA 44°30′32.58″N 18°11′02.37″E / 44.5090500°N 18.1839917°E / 44.5090500; 18.1839917
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton Zenica-Doboj Canton
Municipality Maglaj
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Donja Bočinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Доња Бочиња) is a village in the municipality of Maglaj in Zenica-Doboj Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Population

Prior to the war, the village had Serb majority, but after the war, its Serb population was expelled and the village was inhabited by the Wahhabists with the help from the Bosnian Muslim authorities. Many of them married local women and earned citizenship. The village provided them a safe heaven in which they maintained their terrorist contacts under the guise of simple farmers. However, the hostility of the inhabitants of Donja Bočinja to outsiders, including SFOR, was palpable, undermining their claims of innocence. Eventually the enclave was closed down, and the village returned to its original owners.[2]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
  2. ↑ Lebl 2014, p. 14.

Books

  • Lebl, Leslie S. (2014). Islamism and Security in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Strategic Studies Institute. ISBN 1584876220. 

Coordinates: 44°30′39″N 18°10′59″E / 44.5108°N 18.1831°E / 44.5108; 18.1831

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