page_title: Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
section_title: Yugoslavia
hierarchical_section_title: Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina / History / Yugoslavia
caption_attribution_description: English: Prnjavorbypopulation
context_page_description: Prnjavor is a city and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, between cities of Banja Luka and Derventa. As of 2013, it has a population of 35,956 inhabitants, while the town of Prnjavor has a population of 8,120 inhabitants.
context_section_description: In 1918 Bosnia became part of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and all immigration stopped. During the interwar period between 1918 and 1941 Prnjavor underwent more significant economic development through the opening of craftsman workshops, hotels, more shops and a few manufacturing plants. From 1929 to 1941 Prnjavor was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
  Following the collapse of internal security during World War II the Nazis decided to evacuate the Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) population from Bosnia and a treaty to this effect was signed with the Croatian Ustaše regime on 30 September 1942. After 1945 the Communist regime of Josip Broz Tito repopulated the Volksdeutsche villages with Serbs and destroyed or obscured all evidence of German history and heritage in the region.
  During the Socialist period of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Prnjavor was not a highly developed municipality within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  After the war that erupted after the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Prnjavor became part of the North-Eastern entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republika Srpska, as per the Dayton Agreement. The warring that took place in the very proximity of Prnjavor e.g. in Derventa, changed the demography in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the ICRC, a total of 2,2 million people had to flee their homes from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many people never returned, changing the ethnic composition in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
caption: Prnjavor municipality by population proportional to the settlement with the highest and lowest population
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