Gornja Maoča

Gornja Maoča
Village
Gornja Maoča
Coordinates: BA 44°43′51″N 18°37′51″E / 44.73083°N 18.63083°E / 44.73083; 18.63083
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Political division Brčko District / Federation of BiH
Municipality Brčko / Srebrenik
Government
  Leader Nusret Imamović
Population (2010)
  Total c.100[1]
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Gornja Maoča is a village in northeastern Bosnia that territorially belongs to the Brčko District, but administrativelly it belongs to the Srebrenik municipality, Tuzla Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is in the Majevica mountain range, located directly south from the village of Maoča. The name of the village can be translated as "Upper Maoča".

The village is known for being a centre of the foreign and domestic Wahhabists, a radical Muslim group, most of whom were former volunteers of the El Mudžahid detachment of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.

Geography

Gornja Maoča is a mountainous village located in Majevica, a low mountain range in northeastern Bosnia.

History

The village was formerly known as Karavlasi (Serbian Cyrillic: Каравласи). During the Bosnian War, the village was ethnically cleansed from its pre-war Serb population. After the war it was populated by foreign and domestic Wahhabists, majority of whom participated in the war as members of the El Mudžahid detachment of the Bosnian Muslim Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Links to terrorism

It has been the focus of a lot of police and international attention, with several raids in which weapons caches have been found and suspected terrorists arrested. In early 2015, ISIS flags and symbols have briefly appeared in the village too.[2]


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Coordinates: 44°46′11″N 18°39′01″E / 44.769858°N 18.650311°E / 44.769858; 18.650311

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