Previle (Serbian Cyrillic: Превиле) was a municipality of the former Kotor-Varoš srez in the Banja Luka okrug, in former Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia[1] and FPR Yugoslavia), that existed until 1955. Today, the former municipality constitutes the territory of the villages of Boljanići, Hadrovci, Jakotina, Ravne, Sokoline, Vagani, Varjače, Viševice, Vranić, located in the Kotor Varoš municipality, and Javorani, located in the Kneževo/Skender Vakuf municipality.[citation needed] It had a Serb ethnic majority according to the 1953 census. It was a site of military operations during World War II.[2]
Previle
Location of the former municipality of Previle on modern map of Bosnia and Herzegovina
According to the 1953 census, the 4,576 inhabitants identified ethnically as:[3]
References edit
- ^ Tih. J. Arandelovic (1929). Imenik - Registar, Naseljenih Mesta Kraljevine Jugoslavije. p. 34.
- ^ Vojnoistorijski institut (1954). "Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodnooslobodilačkom ratu naroda Jugoslavija". 4 (8). Belgrade: Vojnoistorijski institut: 255.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Statistički zavod FNRJ, Izd. (1954): Popis stanovništva i stanova 1953. SZFNRJ" (PDF).