Kneževo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

**Kneževo**, previously called Skender Vakuf, is a small town in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

## Geography

Kneževo is situated between the rivers Ugar, Vrbas and Vrbanja and surrounded by the mountain masiff of Čemernica, Ranča in the west, Vlašić in the south and Ježica in the north-east. The municipality has an official altitude of , but really ranges from . Kneževo is  southeast of Banja Luka by the M56 motorway.

The mountainous region in the south is forested and impracticable; its limestone mountains reach a height of .

## History

In Imljani and Javorani, Roman basilica have been found, as well as the Roman road from Servitium (Banja Luka) to Levsaba (Travnik) in the vicinity were also found. Tombstones of the Stećak type date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was part of the Kingdom of Bosnia. In 1463 the town became part of the Ottoman Empire and Islam was to become the dominant religion of the region. The Old Mosque was significant and one of the first in the region. It was destroyed, along with the New Mosque, in 1992 during the Bosnian War.

In the Korićani Cliffs massacre of 21 August 1992, some 200 Bosniaks and Croats detainees were massacred by the Bosnian Serbs Police and Army forces (in deep cliff in the canyon of Ilomska) river.
After the Bosnian War, part of the municipality was split off to form the Dobretići municipality of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.

## Demographics

According to the results of the 2013 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there were 3.958 inhabitants in Skender Vakuf town, and 10.428 inhabitants in the Skender Vakuf Municipality.

### Population

|colspan ="7"|**Skender Vakuf Municipality**<span class="plainlinks">(URL) </span>|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**style="background: #F5DEB3"|**Census Year**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1991**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1981**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1971**|
|**Serbs**|13,263 (68.30%)|15.953 (69.51%)|15.926 (74.35%)|||||
|**Croats**|4770 (24.56%)|5395 (23.50%)|4431 (20.68%)|||||
|**Bosniaks**|1071 (5.51%)|1141 (4,97%)|947 (4.42%)|||||
|**Yugoslavs**|169 (0.87%)|318 (1.38%)|9 (0.04%)|||||
|**Others and unknown**|145 (0.74%)|141 (0.61%)|106 (0.49%)|||||
|**style="background: lightblue"|**Total**|**style="background: lightblue"|**19,418**|**style="background: lightblue"|**22,948**|**style="background: lightblue"|**21,419**|

- Skender Vakuf (town)

|colspan ="7"|**Skender Vakuf**|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**style="background: #F5DEB3"|**Census Year**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1991**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1981**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1971**|
|**Serbs**|2484 (66.08%)|1491 (51.23%)|723 (42.83%)|||||
|**Bosniaks**|1063 (28.27%)|1118 (38.41%)|923 (54.68%)|||||
|**Croats**|42 (1.11%)|45 (1.54%)|17 (1.00%)|||||
|**Yugoslavs**|111 (2.95%)|205 (7.04%)|5 (0.29%)|||||
|**Others and unknown**|59 (1.56%)|51 (1.75%)|20 (1.18%)|||||
|'''style="background: lightblue"|**Total**|__style="background: lightblue"|_3,759_'|__style="background: lightblue"|_2,910_'|__style="background: lightblue"|_1,688_'|

## Other websites

- Official Municipality Website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **subdivision type**: Countries of the world, Country
- **subdivision name**: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- **subdivision type1**: Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Entity
- **subdivision name1**: Republika Srpska
- **subdivision type2**: Municipality
- **subdivision name2**: Skender Vakuf/Kneževo (seat)
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +1
- **timezone dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset dst**: +2
- **map caption**: Location within Bosnia and Herzegovina
- **population as of**: 2013 census
- **native name**: Skender-Vakuf
- **official name**: Kneževo
- **image shield**: Kneževo_(grb).svg
- **image map**: Kneževo_municipality.svg
- **area total km2**: 332,9
- **population total**: 10428
- **population density km2**: 31,3
- **area code**: 51
- **website**: [http://www.opstinaknezevo.com/ Official Kneževo Municipality Website]
- **leader title**: Mayor