Jezera, Zenica Explained

Official Name:Jezera
Native Name:Језера
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Entity
Subdivision Name1:
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Subdivision Type2:Region
Canton
Subdivision Name2:Sarajevo
Zenica-Doboj
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3: Teslić
Zenica
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Km2:42.01
Population As Of:2013
Population Total:0[1] [2]
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:44.4°N 17.78°W

Jezera (Serbian Cyrillic: Језера) is a village in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before the collapse and dissolution of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, Jezera was administratively under the jurisdiction of Teslić, a municipality in central-northern Bosnia; after the war the village was administratively partly attached to the municipality of Zenica, to the south of Teslić.

Demographics

The ethnic and religious structure of Jezera was disturbed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Heavily populated by the Orthodox Christian inhabitants before the war, Jezera's demographic structure drastically changed during and following the war. To give an example, virtually the entire subvillage (Serbo-Croatian: zaseok, pl. zaseoci) Kusići, left their homes and the area. Among the reasons for this exodus was the newly established geopolitical order in Bosnia an Herzegovina, and the administrative attachment of the village to Zenica. The border between the two Bosnian "entities," i.e. the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, runs through the village Jezera.

Before the war and the exodus of its population, the village of Jezera was composed of several subvillages:

As is often the case with many other Bosnian toponyms, the names of villages and subvillages are the same as the last names carried by its inhabitants; e.g., the villagers of the subvillage Đukići (pl. of Đukić) would carry the same last name, Đukić.

Ethnic composition, 1991. census

total: 1,069

References

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Naseljena Mjesta 1991/2013. Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. February 27, 2022. Bosnian.
  2. Web site: Naseljena Mjesta 1991/2013. Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. February 27, 2022. Bosnian.