Kreševo

Kreševo ​​is a small town and municipality of the same name in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Geography

The community association Kreševo ​​is located in a hilly region west of Sarajevo, has an area of 150 km ², of which about 90 % is forested. The city Kreševo ​​is about 12 km south of the village Kiseljak.

History

The narrow area of Kreševo ​​was during the Roman period to the so-called mittelbosnischen mining area in which the first was mined intensively until the 3rd century iron, silver and arsenic ore in the course. In Kreševo ​​itself you tried a small mining settlement ( vicus possibly ) to locate, which might have been the center of a series of Bergmann companies in the area of ​​Kreševo ​​. It is further, in the field of agricultural Kreševo ​​had Roman mansions, villae rusticae exists.

However, with the exception of a Roman road of 200 meters length in the vicinity of the village Vranci, connecting this area with that of Kiseljak, an ancient wheel track during Kreševo ​​and some fragments of Roman architecture elements with the outstanding cornerstone of a late antique, profiled rim ( before City Hall in Kreševo ​​) until today no other monuments from Roman times.

Population

The 1991 census showed the following composition:

• Croats - 4,714 ( 70.03 %)
• Bosniaks - 1,531 ( 22.74 %)
• Serbs - 34 ( 0.50% )
• Yugoslavs - 251 (3.72 %)
• Other - 201 ( 3.01% )

The official estimate for 2003 includes the following figures:

• Croats - 3,218 ( 80.29 %)
• Bosniaks - 790 ( 19.71 %)