Čelinac

**Čelinac** () is a town and municipality in Central Bosnia, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality lies  about  to the east of the regional center,  city of Banja Luka.

It is located on Vrbanja river, between municipalities of Laktaši and Prnjavor to the north, Teslić to the east, Kotor Varoš, Skender Vakuf/Kneževo to the south, and Banja Luka to the west.

## History

During the Bosnian War (1992–95), Bosnian Serb Police and Army, and Serb's paramilitary forces  destroyed villages upstream along the Vrbanja to Kruševo Brdo, including the villages in Čelinac Municipality.

In addition to those who have experienced this, among other things, bears witness to the indictment against Radovan Karadžić to tribunal in The Hague. At the hearing, Nikola Poplašen, 2013, one of the questions to the witness the defense, it was:

## Population

|colspan ="7"|**Municipality of Čelinac**|||||||
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|**style="background: #F5DEB3"|**Census Year**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1991.**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1981.**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1971.**|
|**Serbs**|16,554 (88.46%)|15,832 (86.25%)|15,880 (91.10%)|||||
|**Bosniaks**|1,446 (7.72%)|1,232 (6.71%)|1,209 (6.93%)|||||
|**Croats**|76 (0.40%)|86 (0.46%)|90 (0.51%)|||||
|**Yugoslavs**|377 (2.01%)|885 (4.82%)|14 (0.08%)|||||
|**Others**|260 (1.38%)|319 (1.73%)|237 (1.35%)|||||
|**style="background: lightblue"|**Total**|**18,713**|**18,354**|**17,430**||||

|colspan ="7"|**Čelinac (town)**|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**style="background: #F5DEB3"|**Census Year**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1991.**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1981.**|**style="background: #C2B280"|**1971.**|
|**Serbs**|3,450 (71.03%)|1,798 (57.33%)|569 (43.07%)|||||
|**Bosniaks**|1.005 (20.69%)|817 (26.05%)|694 (52.53%)|||||
|**Croats**|51 (1.05%)|57 (1.81%)|32 (2.42%)|||||
|**Yugoslavs**|234 (4.81%)|402 (12.81%)|7 (0.52%)|||||
|**Others**|117 (2.40%)|62 (1.97%)|19 (1.43%)|||||
|**style="background: lightblue"|**Total**|**4,857**|**3,136**|**1,321**||||

## Related pages

- Vrbanja river

## Infobox (settlement)

- **subdivision type**: Countries of the world, Country
- **subdivision name**: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- **subdivision type1**: Republic
- **subdivision name1**: Republika Srpska
- **subdivision type2**: Municipalities of Republika Srpska, Municipality
- **subdivision name2**: Čelinac
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +1
- **timezone dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset dst**: +2
- **map caption**: Location of Čelinac within Bosnia and Herzegovina
- **population as of**: 2013 census
- **native name**: Челинац
- **official name**: Čelinac
- **image skyline**: Celinac.jpg
- **image caption**: View on Čelinac
- **image shield**: Čelinac (grb).svg
- **image map**: Čelinac municipality.svg
- **area total km2**: 361,81
- **population total**: 16874
- **population density km2**: 46,6
- **area code**: 051
- **website**: [http://www.opstina-celinac.com/ Official Web Site]
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Momčilo Zeljković (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD) [http://www.izbori.ba/documents/Rezultati%20izbora%202004/Utvrdjeni/2004NacelniciRS.pdf]