Cazin

Cazin (Cyrillic Цазин ) ( German outdated Zassin ) is a city and the associated community in the far northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Geography

It is located about 20 km north of Bihac and approximately 15 km from the border with Croatia. The city is located near Bosanska Otoka. Cazin Una -Sana Canton is part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Una river crosses the southern municipality. Geologically, the Opština determined by incised, partially wooded and rocky, partially agriculturally very usable terrain. With 797 m height of the mountain Velika Gomila is the highest elevation in the southeast of Opština which is otherwise at an average altitude of about 300 m.

Population

At the 1991 census the municipality had 63 409 inhabitants. Of these, 61 693 as Bosniaks ( 97.29 %) and 778 as Serbs (1.23 %) indicated. 938 inhabitants (1.48 %) reported other affiliations. Today, the municipality has 69 411 inhabitants Cazin ..

In the town of Cazin himself lived 1991 9775 people. Again, put the Bosniaks with 9166 inhabitants ( 93.77 %), the absolute majority. 251 residents identified themselves as Yugoslavs (2.57 %).

History

In Cazin there are archaeological finds of the so-called settlement Veliki Čungar u Kupresima, which mainly come from the Iron Age. 1522 made ​​the Bishop of Knin Cazin to his seat after Knin had fallen. In the center are on a hill, the ruins of a castle. It was renewed in 1584 and 1851 abandoned.

Other medieval castles are in the vicinity of the town:

  • Pećigrad: At the end of the 15th century built; 1768 was built next to the old castle a new one that is still preserved
  • Mutnik
  • Coralici / Begove Kafane
  • Castle Tržac in place Tržac
  • Stijena: 1575 conquered by the Ottomans; 1771 they built next to the old castle a new one that is still preserved
  • Ostrožac: 1286 first mentioned; Taken in 1577 by the Ottomans; Renewed 1900-1902 by Lothar von Berks and extended by a neo-gothic castle; A fortress and castle have been preserved
  • Sturlic
  • Todorovo

Traffic

By Cazin the highway M runs 4-2 ( Bihać - Velika Kladuša ). A regional road connects the village of Bosanska Krupa. A railway connection does not exist.

Personalities

  • Nurija Pozderac (1892 - 1943) - Partisan, one of the founders of the popular resistance movement in occupied Yugoslavia, Vice President of AVNOJ Komitäts (26 November 1942 - Bihac )
  • Hamdija Pozderac ( January 15, 1924 - April 7, 1988 ) - communist politician and President of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1971 to 1974, and Vice President of ex - Yugoslavia in the later 1980s
  • Ahmet Hadzipasic (1952-2008), politician, prime minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003-2007)
  • Safet Nadarević ( b. 1980 ), football player
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