Novi Travnik

Novi Travnik Нови Травник
Municipality and town
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Novi Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Novi Travnik Location of Novi Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates: BA 44°10′29.35″N 17°39′48.34″E / 44.1748194°N 17.6634278°ECoordinates: BA 44°10′29.35″N 17°39′48.34″E / 44.1748194°N 17.6634278°E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton	Central Bosnia
Government
• Mayor	Refik Lendo (SDA)
Area
• Total	242 km^2 (93 sq mi)
• Land	242 km^2 (93 sq mi)
• Water	0 km^2 (0 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	25,107
• Density	100/km^2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Post code	72290
Area code	+387 030
Website	www.ont.gov.ba

Novi Travnik is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Central Bosnia Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Name

The municipality was called Novi Travnik until 1980, when it was styled Pucarevo after Đuro Pucar. In 1992 the original name was restored.

History

Novi Travnik was founded in 1949 to provide residence for the employees of the newly founded MMK Bratstvo factory, and so it is one of the youngest settlements in the region. As of January 2015, the municipality contains nine National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina,^[1] among which are seven stećak necropolises, one mosque and the Necropolis for the victims of Fascism.

Demographics

Municipality of Novi Travnik population in 1991:

Croats

  

39.59% Muslims

  

37.58% Serbs

  

13.33% Yugoslavs

  

6.94% Others

  

2.26%

Novi Travnik, municipality

Novi Travnik municipality
census year	2013.	1991.	1981.	1971.
Croats		12,162 (39.59%)	10,548 (40.33%)	9,852 (43.12%)
Muslims		11,625 (37.85%)	9,164 (35.03%)	8,200 (35.89%)
Serbs		4,097 (13.33%)	3,521 (13.46%)	4,129 (18.07%)
Yugoslavs by nat.		2,132 (6.94%)	2,308 (8.82%)	301 (1.31%)
others and unknown		697 (2.26%)	613 (2.34%)	365 (1.59%)
total	25,107	30,713	26,154	22,847

Novi Travnik, town itself

Novi Travnik
census year	2013.	1991.	1981.	1971.
Serbs		3,200 (27.77%)	2,464 (29.08%)	2,897 (43.36%)
Muslims		3,176 (27.56%)	1,783 (21.04%)	1,415 (21.17%)
Croats		2,751 (23.87%)	1,985 (23.42%)	1,778 (26.61%)
Yugoslavs by nat.	(N/A)	1,887 (16.37%)	1,899 (22.41%)	275 (4.11%)
others and unknown		508 (4.40%)	342 (4.03%)	316 (4.72%)
total	9,533	11,522	8,473	6,681

Economy

The Yugoslav Wars and their consequences altered the way and quality of living in Novi Travnik. Economy of Novi Travnik was greatly dependent to the BNT "Bratstvo" factory which was almost completely destroyed during the war, specially after a Serb air attack on 28 February 1994 (see Banja Luka incident). MK "Bratstvo used to employ more than 7,000 people and was the cornerstone of Novi Travnik.

Notable residents

• Marijan Šunjić (1798—1860), born in Bučići (in what is now the Municipality of Novi Travnik) – 19th-century Bosnian Franciscan, Roman Catholic Bishop (Apostolic Vicar in Bosnia), educator. A street in Novi Travnik and the primary school in Stojkovići were named after him.

Sources

• Hasan Zolić, odg. ur., Nacionalni sastav stanovništva : rezultati za Republiku po opštinama i naseljenim mjestima 1991., Statistički bilten 234., Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo, prosinca 1993.^[2]
• ^[3]

References

1. "Commission to preserve national monuments". Kons.gov.ba. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
2. "Popis Stanovnistva, Domacinstava, Stanova I Polioprivrednih Gazdinstava 1991" (PDF). Fzs.ba. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
3. "Bosnia I Hercegovina Details" (PDF). Fzs.ba. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

External links

• - Najsvježiji izvor informacija o Novom Travniku
• by Siba's Friends and Relatives Worldwide
• Official website
• Court of Novi Travnik
• Siba's Novi Travnik Homepage