Podrinje




For the village in Croatia, see Podrinje, Croatia.



The Drina valley looking towards Bajina Bašta


Podrinje (Cyrillic: Подриње) is the Slavic name of the Drina river basin, known in English as the Drina Valley, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Towns in Podrinje


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





History




The bridge on the Drina in Višegrad (around 1890)


Between 1918-22, Podrinje District, with its seat in Šabac, was one of the districts of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. District comprised north-western part of present-day Šumadija and Western Serbia. Between 1922-29, Podrinje Oblast existed in roughly same area also with seat in Šabac. In 1929, a large province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia known as the Drina Banovina was formed with capital in Sarajevo. Drina Banovina included western parts of present-day Serbia and eastern parts of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following World War II Axis occupation in 1941, the province was abolished and its territory was divided between Independent State of Croatia and area governed by the Military Administration in Serbia.


In 1941 Yugoslav Partisans liberated the large western part of the German occupied territory. In this territory they proclaimed the Republic of Užice (Uzička Republika) with Užice city as centre of the Republic. This large free territory was island of freedom in Nazi occupied Europe. The Republic of Užice was short-lived. German troops occupied the territory again, while the majority of Partisan forces escaped towards Bosnia.[citation needed]


When the Bosnian War broke out in 1992, the Drina Valley became the focus of a bitter campaign of ethnic cleansing by Serb forces[1] which eventually culminated in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995.


According to the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Centre (RDC/IDC) Bosnian Atlas of the Dead Project, the Podrinje was the area of Bosnia which suffered the highest number of casualties. In 2007, Mirsad Tokaca, the RDC/IDC's director, reported that 28,666 deaths of a total of 97.207 recorded by June 2007, had occurred in the Podrinje.[2]


Today, one of the cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina is known as Bosnian Podrinje Canton.



Towns in Podrinje


Towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska and Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde):



  • Srebrenica

  • Bratunac

  • Foča

  • Goražde

  • Žepa

  • Višegrad

  • Vlasenica

  • Rogatica

  • Zvornik

  • Janja


Towns in Serbia (Mačva District and Zlatibor District):



  • Bajina Bašta

  • Banja Koviljača

  • Ljubovija

  • Loznica

  • Mali Zvornik



See also



  • Bosnian Podrinje Canton

  • Geographical regions in Serbia

  • Drina Banovina

  • Drina

  • Posavina



References





  1. ^ Bećir Bogilović's evidence at Orić trial, 21 March 2005, ICTY, p. 6367 [1], icty.org; retrieved 31 July 2010.


  2. ^ Nidzara Ahmetasević. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network "JUSTICE REPORT: Bosnia's Book of the Dead", 21 June 2007; retrieved 31 July 2010.





Coordinates: 44°16′00″N 19°20′00″E / 44.2667°N 19.3333°E / 44.2667; 19.3333







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