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Jezero Језеро | |
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 Location of Jezero within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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| Coordinates:44°21′0″N17°10′5″E / 44.35000°N 17.16806°E /44.35000; 17.16806 | |
| Country |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity |  Republika Srpska |
| Geographicalregion | Bosanska Krajina |
| Government | |
| • Municipal mayor | Snežana Ružičić (SNSD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 55.6 km2 (21.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2013) | |
• Total | 1,144 |
| • Density | 20.6/km2 (53.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | 387 (50) |
| Website | www |
Jezero (Serbian Cyrillic:Језеро,lit. "Lake") is a village and a municipality inRepublika Srpska,Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 1,144 inhabitants, while the village of Jezero has a population of 581 inhabitants.[1] A small part of the village inJajce municipality has a population of 6.[2]
The village nameJezero derives from the wordjezero which in mostSlavic languages (Bulgarian,Macedonian:езеро,Serbian:jезеро/jezero,Bosnian,Croatian,Czech,Slovene:jezero) and its closest written variations (Polish:jezioro,Kashubian:jezoro,Lower Sorbian:jezer,Slovak:jazero,Russian andUkrainian:озеро), as well as inBaltic languages (Lithuanian:ežeras,Latvian:ezers) means "lake".[3]
The Jezero municipality consists of hills, mountains and basins. The altitude is between 432 and 1267 meters, the highest mountains in the municipality are Gorica and Sinjakovo. The rivers that flow through the Jezero municipality are Pliva and Jošavka as well as their tributaries. Jezero is situated on location where thePliva river entersVeliko Plivsko Lake.
The Jezero municipality is located in the northeastern part of Republika Srpska. It borders the municipalities ofMrkonjić Grad,Jajce andŠipovo. The Jezero municipality is one of the smaller municipalities of Republika Srpska, with an area of 55,6 km2 and makes up 0,23% of the total territory of the Republic of Srpska.
The area of the Jezero municipality belongs to the zone of temperate continental climate with the average annual temperature of is 10.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is about 981 mm, and is evenly distributed throughout the year.
Jezero has had a long history. It is supposed that there had been a settlement at that area even in theIllyrian period and, according to traditional stories, as the Illyrian queen Teuta had ordered, the channel was dug so that the Illyrian fortress was established on the river island where the large part of settlement is still located. Roads passed through Jezero in Roman period and in the Middle Ages. The fortress on the river island was conquered by the Ottoman military during their conquest of Bosnia in 1463.
Before the war, the municipality of Jezero was a local community and belonged to the municipality of Jajce. After the signing of the Dayton Agreement (The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina), inter-entity boundary line separated Jezero from Jajce. Thus the municipality of Jezero was established by the decision of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska in June 1996.
| Population of settlements – Jezero municipality | ||||||||
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| Settlement | 1948. | 1953. | 1961. | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | |
| Total | 2,604 | 3,323 | 1,949 | 1,144 | ||||
| 1 | Borci | 227 | ||||||
| 2 | Čerkazovići | 220 | ||||||
| 3 | Drenov Do | 145 | ||||||
| 4 | Đumezlije | 92 | ||||||
| 5 | Jezero | 655 | 595 | 728 | 834 | 702 | ||
| 6 | Kovačevac | 131 | ||||||
| 7 | Ljolići | 205 | ||||||
| 8 | Perućica | 95 | ||||||
| Ethnic composition – Jezero | |||||||
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| 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
| Total | 702 (100,0%) | 834 (100,0%) | 728 (100,0%) | 595 (100,0%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 477 (57,19%) | 409 (56,18%) | 435 (73,11%) | ||||
| Serbs | 282 (33,81%) | 245 (33,65%) | 131 (22,02%) | ||||
| Yugoslavs | 34 (4,077%) | 46 (6,319%) | 6 (1,008%) | ||||
| Croats | 33 (3,957%) | 13 (1,786%) | 19 (3,193%) | ||||
| Others | 8 (0,959%) | 9 (1,236%) | 4 (0,672%) | ||||
| Albanians | 6 (0,824%) | ||||||
| Ethnic composition – Jezero municipality | ||||||||||
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| 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | |||||||
| Total | 1,144 (100,0%) | 834 (100,0%) | 728 (100,0%) | 595 (100,0%) | ||||||
| Bosniaks | 287 (25,087%) | 477 (57,19%) | 409 (56,18%) | 435 (73,10%) | ||||||
| Serbs | 841 (73,51%) | 282 (33,81%) | 245 (33,65%) | 131 (22,01%) | ||||||
| Croats | 11 (0,962%) | 33 (3,95%) | 13 (1,78%) | 19 (3,19%) | ||||||
| Yugoslavs | 34 (4,07%) | 46 (6,31%) | 6 (1,00%) | |||||||
| Others | 5 (0,437%) | 8 (0,95%) | 15 (2,06%) | 4 (0,67%) | ||||||
The municipality of Jezero has significant water potential (rivers Pliva, Jošavka and rivers of Perućica, lake Đol in Ljoljići). Those potentials can be used for the development of tourism and hydro potential, ecology and protection of healthy environment.
The municipality Jezero is located on the river Pliva, halfway between Jajce and Šipovo at an altitude of 430 m. What is specific for Jezero is that it is located exactly on the confluence of the river Pliva with Great Pliva Lake, surrounded with beautiful mountain range. Except Pliva Lake, there are two more lakes nearby, those are Veliki Đol (Great Đol) and Mali Đol (Small Đol), places remarkably famous among the fishermen. Besides, Jezero has excellent conditions for paragliding, mountaineering and mountain-biking.
In 2007, following the discovery of an ancient crater-lake on planetMars, the feature was namedJezero Crater, after this village inBosnia and Herzegovina,[4][5] which is one ofthe country's several eponymous towns and villages.[6]
In November 2018, it was announced that Jezero Crater had been chosen as the landing site for the plannedMars 2020 rover mission.[7][8][9]
