| Čudnić Чуднић | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Vlašić slopes |
| Mouth | |
• location | Vrbanja |
• coordinates | 44°25′05″N17°36′03″E / 44.4181°N 17.6008°E /44.4181; 17.6008 |
| Length | 6 km (3.7 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Vrbanja→Vrbas→Sava→Danube→Black Sea |
TheČudnić (Serbian Cyrillic:Чуднић) is a left, western tributary of theVrbanja inBosnia and Herzegovina. It flows to Panići village and empties into the village of Čudić in the village ofKruševo Brdo, belowArapov Brijeg (Arab's hill). It springs on the southeastern slopes of the lowerVlašić's plateau, below theIlomska and its tributaries. The spring is on a riverhead with the Kovačevića creek and theĆorkovac creek.[1][2] The tributary flows deep and fast; it is the local population's belief that the Čudnić is flowing over a part of the water of the Ilomska confluence.[3][4]
InWorld War II, duringOperation Kugelblitz, or the '6th Enemy Offensive', of 1943 to 1944, partisans established the 12th Division's hospital nearŠiprage. After consistent bombings of the neighboring Šiprage, about 600 injured and sick partisans were temporarily displaced to Čudnić village and other surrounding settlements on January 4, 1944. After the departure ofGerman andChetnik units, this "mobile hospital" quickly returned to Šiprage (January 15, 1944).[5][6]
After the war, the remains of dead partisans were moved from temporary graves in the forest to a Memorial Partisan Cemetery in Šiprage near Zagradine.[7]
During theWar in Bosnia (1992–1995), all theBosniaks villages around Čudnić were destroyed, and their civilian inhabitants killed and displaced, as well as those from all the Bosniak andCroat villages to the Vrbanja's mouth (inVrbas).[8][9][10][11][12]
