Usora Municipality

Usora is a large village ( Općina ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina with about 7,500 inhabitants. It is located in Central Bosnia in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation and is majority populated by Croats. Usora located on the eponymous river, which just before the town of Doboj in the river Bosna flows.

History

The area was already inhabited Usora in the Paleolithic. The evidence to the discovery by Dr. Đuro Basler and Zdravko Marić in the village Makljenovac.

The area Usora and Soli was completely in the ancient Roman province of Pannonia. After these areas were part of the State of Braslav and Ljudevit Posavski.

Usora and Soli united with Bosnia (or the altbosnischen Kingdom) during the time of the first Bosnian Ban Borić (before 1163 ). It is thought that Ban Borić Usora and solos got as a gift of the Hungarian- Croatian king for his loyalty in the war against the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I.. In the aftermath Usora and solos alternated several times between Bosnian and Hungarian- Croatian rule.

Usora remains of the Christianization until now Roman Catholic. Even when in 1236 the majority of the Bosnian nobility abandoned the Catholic faith, remained Usoras Knez Sebislav (according to a letter of Pope Gregory IX on August 8, 1236 probably a grandson of Kulin Ban ) " as the lily among thorns " Catholic.

The area Usora was incorporated in the extended area Usora and solos from 1272 under Ban Henrik Gesinovac ( Banovina ). From 1326 the Banovina of the family Bilosevic and from 1399 had risen among the family Zlatonosovic to Wojwodschaft. Last voivode was Tvrtko Stancic. Then Usora fell in 1520 under Turkish rule. In parts of the area Islamization took place, they are no longer part of Usora.

In the Bosnian War, the area of the 110th Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council was successfully defended against the Serbian attacks; Today it forms the municipality Usora.

Towns

The municipality consists of the villages Usora Alibegovci, Bejici, Omanjska, SIVSA, Srednja Omanjska, Ularice, and parts of places Makljenovac, Novi Miljanovci ( Filipovici i Kovcici ), Zabljak and Tesanjka (§ 2 Article 10 of the Constitution Act of 1998 ).

The seat of the municipality is located in Usora SIVSA, where a Croatian consulate is established for this region.

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