Laktaši

Laktaši ( Serbian Cyrillic Лакташи ) is a city and the associated community in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively it belongs since the Bosnian war to Republika Srpska.

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Geography

Laktaši is located approximately 19 kilometers north of Banja Luka on the Vrbas River. Laktaši has about 5,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the homonymous municipality ( Opština Laktaši ) with about 37,000 inhabitants.

Districts

Aleksići, Bakinci, Aleksandrovac Boskovici, Bukovica Čardačani, Ćetojevići, Devetina, Dovići, Drugovici, Glamočani, Jablan Jakupovci, Jaružani, Kadinjani, Kobatovci, Koljani, Kosijerovo, Kriškovci, Krnete, Laktaši, Ljubatovci, Maglajani, Mahovljani, Malo Blaško, Milosavci, Miloševci, Mrčevci, Papažani, Petoševci, Rajčevci, Riječani, Slatina, Šeškovci, Šušnjari, Trn and Veliko Blaško.

Trn was in 1991 the largest town of the community and was recognized as an immediate suburb of Banja Luka in the 2000s by a construction boom. It created numerous new homes and commercial buildings.

Demography

According to the 1971 census, 25,997 people lived in Laktaši, of which:

  • 21 986 Serbs ( 84.57 %)
  • 2,731 Croats ( 10.50% )
  • 341 Bosniaks (1.14 %)
  • 84 Yugoslavs (0.32 %)
  • 855 other ( 3.47% )

According to the 1991 census lived in Laktaši 29 910 people, of which

  • 24,438 Serbs ( 81.70 %)
  • 2,584 Croats ( 8.63% )
  • 1,491 Yugoslavs (4.98 %)
  • 506 Bosniaks (1.69 %)
  • And 891 ( 3.00% ) were different.

Today, almost exclusively live Serbs in the Opština Laktaši.

Sports

The football club FK Laktaši played until the 2009/10 season in the Premijer Liga, the top division of the country.

Traffic

Highway

Since 2004 is built on a highway that is to run from Banja Luka on Laktaši direction Gradiška and Croatia. The first section of Banja Luka to Laktašer district Mahovljani ( where the airport is Banja Luka located) was originally to be completed in September 2006, the remaining portion by the end of 2008. All in all, the construction of approximately 45 km long highway around 71 million KM costs ( € 36 million ). The progress but has been delayed repeatedly, including through the construction of the tunnel in the district Klašnice and the controversial tunnel in the center of Laktaši. This highway will be a relief for the villages along the route Gradiška / Banja Luka. Furthermore, the small border crossing in Gradiška is relieved. A large part of the highway has since been released on future highway interchange at Mahovljani but is still working. This currently needs to be avoided on the regional road.

Personalities

The current Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, was born in Laktaši 1959.

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