Official Name: | Kravica |
Native Name: | Кравица |
Native Name Lang: | sr |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Subdivision Type1: | Entity |
Subdivision Name1: | Republika Srpska |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Bratunac |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.43 |
Population As Of: | 2013 |
Population Total: | 567 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 44.2167°N 31°W |
Kravica (Serbian: Кравица) is a village in Bratunac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants.
During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and over 70 men and women were killed by the ARBIH, half of them being civilians.
In 1971 there was a shootout between men from Kravica and men from Konjević Polje.[2]
In 1991, it was reported that the neighbouring Serb-inhabited Kravica and Bosniak-inhabited Glogova "had bad blood".[3]
The village was attacked on 7 January (Serb Orthodox Christmas) 1993 by the ARBiH forces under Naser Orić from the besieged Srebrenica enclave under the control of the ARBiH. 46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 35 VRS soldiers and 11 civilians, and most of the houses were damaged.[4] [5] [6] Men from Kravica participated in the Srebrenica genocide committed against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war.[7]
In 1991, it had a population of 357, of whom 353 were declared as Serbs, with no declared Bosniaks, Croats or Yugoslavs. As of the 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants, all Serbs.