Ugljevik Угљевик | |
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Town andmunicipality | |
 Ugljevik | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Ugljevik within Republika Srpska | |
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| Coordinates:44°41′36″N18°59′40″E / 44.69333°N 18.99444°E /44.69333; 18.99444 | |
| Country |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity |  Republika Srpska |
| Geographicalregion | Semberija |
| Government | |
| • Municipal mayor | Dragan Gajić (SNSD) |
| • Municipality | 165.2 km2 (63.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2013 census) | |
| • Town | 4,155 |
| • Municipality | 15,710 |
| • Municipality density | 95.10/km2 (246.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal Code | 76330 |
| Area code | (+387) 55 |
| Website | www |
Ugljevik (Serbian Cyrillic:Угљевик) is a town and municipality inRepublika Srpska,Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality has a population of 15,710 inhabitants, while the town of Ugljevik has a population of 4,155 inhabitants.
The municipality is located in the countryside of the eastern foothills ofMount Majevica, where the mountains start descending towards the flatlands ofSemberija, to which it is tied to more than any other surrounding area. It is the home of miners and other energy resource professionals.
Ugljevik is named aftercoal (ugalj), which first began to be exploited on MountMajevica in 1899.[citation needed]
At least ten archaeological locations have been found in the area. These include five locations with groupings ofmedieval stone sarcophagi, calledstećci, and three dating from the Roman period. Though research into theNeolithic sites in the municipality is lacking, nearby areas have Neolithic archaeological sites, allowing postulation that there might have been ancient sites present. The village of Tutnjevac contains the remains of aRoman villa.
The first population census of the region showed five settlements with a total of 55 houses, which date from prior to arrival of theOttoman Turks in the 15th century. During troubled times the population would leave these parts with most of the succeeding population—the forebears of the present Majevicans—coming from Eastern and ‘Old’Herzegovina in the 19th century.
During the past hundred years, the pace and extent of development of the Ugljevik region has been determined by coal production. With the increased need for coal, coal exploitation began in 1899, and anarrow gauge railway was built fromRača, on theSava river, to the Ugljevik coal mine viaBijeljina in 1919. Subsequently, this railway was upgraded to a normal narrow gauge, and later was connected to one of Ugljevik’s communities, Mezgraja, in 1938. This was the last narrow gauge railway in Europe before it was closed on May 26, 1979.
The coal from Bogutovo Selo surface mine has acalorific value of 2,550kcal/kg (10.68MJ/kg), and it is estimated that the reserves are sufficient to satisfy the needs of four 300megawatt coal-fired power plants.
It is thanks to these coal giants that almost all of Ugljevik’s corporations have developed.
After theBosnian War Ugljevik became a significant peacekeeping force post. For the first time after theWorld War II, the Russian Army and Western Allies worked together in a military mission, as the Implementation Force (IFOR) and later the Stabilization Forces (SFOR). Headquarters of the Russian Peacekeeping Mission inBosnia was in Ugljevik. Americans had a small base in Ugljevik, across the Janja river from the Russians. In relation to this, the IFOR info magazine “Talon” wrote in one of its articles “Cold War melted on the Balkan sun”.
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The municipality of Ugljevik bordersBijeljina to the east and north,Lopare to thewest,Zvornik to the south, and alsoTeočak in theFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the south. In the 1993 census the population was 16,456 residing in 4,733 households, covering 164 square kilometres (63 square miles). The population density was 12.44/km².
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The municipality of Ugljevik has the following 21 communities:
| Population of the settlements – Ugljevik municipality | |||||
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| Settlement | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | |
| Total | 24,178 | 24,540 | 17,830 | 15,710 | |
| 1 | Atmačići | 566 | 429 | ||
| 2 | Bogutovo Selo | 499 | 294 | ||
| 3 | Donja Trnova | 1,491 | 1,154 | ||
| 4 | Glinje | 648 | 461 | ||
| 5 | Gornja Trnova | 420 | 284 | ||
| 6 | Janjari | 651 | 497 | ||
| 7 | Korenita | 840 | 557 | ||
| 8 | Maleševci | 602 | 404 | ||
| 9 | Mezgraja | 714 | 459 | ||
| 10 | Mukat Stankovići | 458 | 330 | ||
| 11 | Ravno Polje | 466 | 598 | ||
| 12 | Srednja Trnova | 721 | 579 | ||
| 13 | Stari Ugljevik | 1,126 | 707 | ||
| 14 | Tutnjevac | 1,489 | 1,042 | ||
| 15 | Ugljevička Obrijež | 934 | 945 | ||
| 16 | Ugljevik | 2,388 | 2,442 | 2,981 | 4,155 |
| 17 | Ugljevik Selo | 693 | 478 | ||
| 18 | Zabrđe | 1,725 | 1,551 | ||
| Ethnic composition – Ugljevik town | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | |||||
| Total | 2,981 | 2,442 | 2,388 | ||||
| Serbs | 2,426 (81.4%) | 2,210 (90.5%) | 2,256 (94.5%) | ||||
| Bosniaks | 348 (11.7%) | 66 (2.7%) | 86 (3.6%) | ||||
| Yugoslavs | 133 (4.5%) | 143 (5.9%) | 15 (0.6%) | ||||
| Croats | 39 (1.3%) | 3 (0.1%) | 15 (0.6%) | ||||
| Others/unspecified | 35 (1.2%) | 16 (0.7%) | 5 (0.2%) | ||||
| Macedonians | 4 (0.2%) | 6 (0.3%) | |||||
| Montenegrins | 4 (0.2%) | ||||||
| Albanians | 1 (<0.1%) | ||||||
| Ethnic composition – Ugljevik municipality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
| Total | 15,710 | 25,587 | 24,540 | 24,178 | |||
| Serbs | 13,412 (85.4%) | 14,468 (56.5%) | 14,066 (57.3%) | 14,816 (61.2%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 2,186 (14%) | 10,241 (40%) | 9,403 (38.3%) | 8,859 (36.7%) | |||
| Others/unspecified | 70 (0.5%) | 532 (2%) | 81 (0.3%) | 58 (0.2%) | |||
| Croats | 42 (0.3%) | 56 (0.2%) | 17 (<0.1%) | 53 (0.2%) | |||
| Yugoslavs | 290 (1.1%) | 573 (2.3%) | 35 (0.1%) | ||||
| Roma | 376 (1.5%) | 328 (1.4%) | |||||
| Montenegrins | 9 (<0.1%) | 13 (<0.1%) | |||||
| Macedonians | 7 (<0.1%) | 12 (<0.1%) | |||||
| Albanians | 4 (<0.1%) | 3 (<0.1%) | |||||
| Slovenes | 3 (<0.1%) | ||||||
| Hungarians | 1 (<0.1%) | 1 (<0.1%) | |||||
TheUgljevik Power Plant is a 300-megawatt coal-fired power station with a 310-metre-tall (1,020 ft) chimney in the municipality.[citation needed]
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