Bosanski Petrovac Босански Петровац
Town and municipality
Bosanski Petrovac
Location of Bosanski Petrovac within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Coordinates: 44°33′N 16°22′E / 44.550°N 16.367°E / 44.550; 16.367
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton	Una-Sana
Geographical region	Bosanska Krajina
Government
• Mayor	Mahmut Jukić (SDA)^[1]
Area
• Town and municipality	717 km² (277 sq mi)
Elevation	664 m (2,178 ft)
Population (2013 census)
• Town and municipality	7,328
• Density	11/km² (30/sq mi)
• Urban	3,427
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+387 37
Website	www.bosanskipetrovac.gov.ba

Bosanski Petrovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Босански Петровац) is a town and municipality located in the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, the municipality has a population of 7,328 inhabitants, while the town has a population of 3,427 inhabitants.

History

The settlement has existed since Roman times. It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire somewhere between 1520 and 1530. From 1929 to 1941, Bosanski Petrovac was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the Second World War, it was a Partisan stronghold which was conveniently located close to Marshal Josip Broz Tito's headquarters in Drvar. On 6 December 1942 the Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia was established in the town.^[2]

During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the town's Serb majority remained in the city while the Bosniaks and Croats were forced to leave their homes. Then in 1995, as the war was nearing its end, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina seized Bosanski Petrovac and it remained in Bosnian hands until the end of the war.^[3] In the following years, the Serbs' right to return would be hindered. However, the town would eventually return to its pre-war ethnic composition.

Settlements

Demographics

Population

Population of settlements – Bosanski Petrovac municipality
	Settlement	1971.	1981.	1991.	2013.
	Total	18,597	16,374	15,621	7,328
1	Bosanski Petrovac	4,016	4,547	5,381	3,427
2	Dobro Selo			901	655
3	Kolonić			521	232
4	Krnjeuša			958	495
5	Rašinovac			627	398

Ethnic composition

Ethnic composition – Bosanski Petrovac town
	2013.	1991.	1981.	1971.
Total	3,427 (100,0%)	5,381 (100,0%)	4,547 (100,0%)	4,016 (100,0%)
Bosniaks	2,608 (75,11%)	2,678 (49,77%)	2,248 (49,44%)	2,551 (63,52%)
Serbs	778 (22,67%)	2,345 (43,58%)	1,428 (31,41%)	1,257 (31,30%)
Unaffiliated	17 (0,496%)
Croats	9 (0,263%)	28 (0,520%)	36 (0,792%)	39 (0,971%)
Others	7 (0,204%)	77 (1,431%)	21 (0,462%)	34 (0,847%)
Unknown	3 (0,088%)
Yugoslavs	1 (0,029%)	253 (4,702%)	794 (17,46%)	124 (3,088%)
Montenegrins	1 (0,029%)		11 (0,242%)	6 (0,149%)
Macedonians	1 (0,029%)		7 (0,154%)	1 (0,025%)
Albanians	1 (0,029%)			2 (0,050%)
Turks	1 (0,029%)
Slovenes			2 (0,044%)	2 (0,050%)

Ethnic composition – Bosanski Petrovac municipality
	2013.	1991.	1981.	1971.
Total	7,328 (100,0%)	15,621 (100,0%)	16,374 (100,0%)	18,597 (100,0%)
Serbs	4,003 (54,53%)	11,694 (74,86%)	11,129 (67,97%)	14,941 (80,34%)
Bosniaks	3,236 (43,38%)	3,288 (21,05%)	2,893 (17,67%)	3,315 (17,83%)
Unaffiliated	30 (0,409%)
Croats	26 (0,355%)	48 (0,307%)	49 (0,299%)	76 (0,409%)
Unknown	12 (0,164%)
Others	11 (0,150%)	225 (1,440%)	89 (0,544%)	92 (0,495%)
Roma	3 (0,041%)
Yugoslavs	2 (0,027%)	366 (2,343%)	2 187 (13,36%)	154 (0,828%)
Montenegrins	1 (0,014%)		13 (0,079%)	13 (0,070%)
Macedonians	1 (0,014%)		8 (0,049%)	1 (0,005%)
Slovenes	1 (0,014%)		6 (0,037%)	3 (0,016%)
Albanians	1 (0,014%)			2 (0,011%)
Turks	1 (0,014%)