Teočak

Teočak Теочак
Location of Teočak within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Teočak Location of Teočak
Coordinates: 44°36′N 18°59′E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
• Municipality president	Taib Muminović (SDA)
Population
• Total	9,000
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	+387 35

Teočak (Cyrillic: Теочак) is a town and municipality in the northeastern part Bosnia and Herzegovina. Center of the municipality is town of Teočak-Krstac.

Geography

The town of Teočak is located north of Kalesija and northeast of Tuzla. It is administratively part of the Tuzla Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History

During the 1990s, due to the Bosnian war, the area of Teočak received several hundred Bosniak refugees from primarily the north and northeast areas of Teočak.

Before the war, Teočak was part of the Ugljevik municipality, and became itself a municipality as part of the Dayton Agreement.

Islam

Stari Teočak, Bilalići, Husejnovići, Jasikovac, Centar and Sniježnica. All these places in the Teočak municipality have 1 mosque with the exception of Stari Teočak which has two mosques. The total number of mosques in the Teočak municipality is 7.

Demographics

The total population of the municipality of Teočak is estimated at approximately 9,000 inhabitants. Ethnically, Bosniaks comprise 100% of the town and municipality population of Teočak (2005 estimation data). [1]

Demographics of town of Teočak - Krstac, 1991 census

total: 2,861

• Muslims by nationality - 2,831 (98.95%)
• Serbs - 15 (0.52%)
• "Yugoslavs" - 10 (0.34%)
• Croats - 2 (0.06%)
• others and unknown - 3 (0.10%)

Gallery

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  Ancient stone balls

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  View on Teočak

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  Mosque in Teočak

References

• Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.

External links

• http://www.teocak.ba
• http://www.radiobehar.com