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Drvar (Cyrillic: Дрвар) is a town and a municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the road between Bosansko Grahovo and Bosanski Petrovac, also near GlamoÄ?. It is administratively part of the West Bosnia Canton of the Federation.
In the census of 1991, Drvar municipality had 17,079 residents, of which 97.27% Serbs, 2.09% Yugoslavs, 0.20% Croats, 0.19% Bosniaks and 0.25% others. The town of Drvar itself had 7,716 inhabitants (96% Serbs and 3% Yugoslavs).
During socialist Yugoslavia, Drvar was named Titov Drvar in honor of Josip Broz Tito. On May 25, 1944, the Germans made an attempt at the life of Tito when he was the main partisan commander, in a daring airdrop on Drvar, Operation Rösselsprung.
After Yugoslavia dissolved, Drvar was controlled by Republika Srpska until 1995, when it became part of the Federation. Today in Drvar the predominate population are the Croats. Small amount of Serbs came back to their homes, but they face discriminatory tendencies by the Croats which prevent their further return. The local government and companies, the few that exist, are dominated by the Croats and it's hard to find work.
Nowadays (2005) the majority of people consists of Bosnian Serb returnees (~90%) and about Bosnian Croats (~10%). The word Drvar stems from the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian word 'DRVO' which means 'wood'. Drvar was already well known in Austrian-Hungarian era due to the high-quality wood coming from that area. The Drvar area is still one of the largest logging and woodprocessing environments of whole BiH. One of the major problems in this area is the widespread corruption connected to this woodprocessing industry. It is estimated that during 2004 about 110.000m3 of wood have 'disapeared'. Average price of 1m3 of timber(second class) is about 100 KM (100 Konvertible Mark = 50 Euros).
'Desant na Drvar'is a film made about the German attack on Drvar. There are still some locations visitable, which were heavily fought about in that time, that still seem to be untouched by time. Famous are 'Tito's Cave' and the so-called 'Citadel'. At last mentioned location one can find an Austrian-Hungarian cemetery (in very poor state) of which the word is that there also some (unknown) number of German soldiers have been buried after the attack of 1944. On this spot there is also a Roman roadsign (+/- 100 AD) located. Another one can be found on the way to Bosansko Petrovac (near Zaglavica).
Drvar is also renowned for its local rakiya, the Yugoslavian brandy. A specialty is rakiya made with berry-like fruit called "drenia."
In the census of 1991, Drvar municipality had 17,079 residents, of which 97.27% Serbs, 2.09% Yugoslavs, 0.20% Croats, 0.19% Bosniaks and 0.25% others. The town of Drvar itself had 7,716 inhabitants (96% Serbs and 3% Yugoslavs).
During socialist Yugoslavia, Drvar was named Titov Drvar in honor of Josip Broz Tito. On May 25, 1944, the Germans made an attempt at the life of Tito when he was the main partisan commander, in a daring airdrop on Drvar, Operation Rösselsprung.
After Yugoslavia dissolved, Drvar was controlled by Republika Srpska until 1995, when it became part of the Federation. Today in Drvar the predominate population are the Croats. Small amount of Serbs came back to their homes, but they face discriminatory tendencies by the Croats which prevent their further return. The local government and companies, the few that exist, are dominated by the Croats and it's hard to find work.
Nowadays (2005) the majority of people consists of Bosnian Serb returnees (~90%) and about Bosnian Croats (~10%). The word Drvar stems from the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian word 'DRVO' which means 'wood'. Drvar was already well known in Austrian-Hungarian era due to the high-quality wood coming from that area. The Drvar area is still one of the largest logging and woodprocessing environments of whole BiH. One of the major problems in this area is the widespread corruption connected to this woodprocessing industry. It is estimated that during 2004 about 110.000m3 of wood have 'disapeared'. Average price of 1m3 of timber(second class) is about 100 KM (100 Konvertible Mark = 50 Euros).
'Desant na Drvar'is a film made about the German attack on Drvar. There are still some locations visitable, which were heavily fought about in that time, that still seem to be untouched by time. Famous are 'Tito's Cave' and the so-called 'Citadel'. At last mentioned location one can find an Austrian-Hungarian cemetery (in very poor state) of which the word is that there also some (unknown) number of German soldiers have been buried after the attack of 1944. On this spot there is also a Roman roadsign (+/- 100 AD) located. Another one can be found on the way to Bosansko Petrovac (near Zaglavica).
Drvar is also renowned for its local rakiya, the Yugoslavian brandy. A specialty is rakiya made with berry-like fruit called "drenia."
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