| Petrovo | |
| Native Name: | Петрово |
| Settlement Type: | Town and municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Subdivision Type1: | Entity |
| Leader Title: | Municipal mayor |
| Leader Name: | Ozren Petković |
| Leader Party: | SNSD |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Area Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Area Blank2 Km2: | 143.9 |
| Population As Of: | 2013 census |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Population Blank1: | 2322 |
| Population Density Blank1 Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Population Blank2: | 6474 |
| Population Density Blank2 Km2: | auto |
| Area Code: | 53 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Image Map1: | Petrovo-naselja.PNG |
Petrovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Петрово) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,322 inhabitants, while the municipality has 16,474 inhabitants.
The municipality was formed from parts of the pre-war municipalities of Gračanica and Lukavac (the other parts of the pre-war municipalities are now in the other Bosnian entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The municipality is close to Doboj, halfway between Doboj and Tuzla. It is located on the mountain of Ozren.
The municipality was formed by Bosnian Serb authorities during the war. Bosnian government never recognised this decision and officially municipality was created after the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Bosnian Serb authorities also changed the name of the municipality to Petrovo from Bosansko Petrovo Selo. The municipality existed before, however, was dismantled in the 1960s. It belonged to Gračanica and Lukavac as well.
| Population of settlements – Petrovo municipality | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | ||
| Total | 9,150 | 6,474 | ||||
| 1 | Kakmuž | 2,398 | 1,691 | |||
| 2 | Karanovac | 1,178 | 1,088 | |||
| 3 | Petrovo | 2,333 | 2,606 | 2,919 | 2,322 | |
| 4 | Porječina | 819 | 491 | |||
| 5 | Sočkovac | 1,121 | 768 | |||
| Ethnic composition – Petrovo town | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | ||||
| Total | 2,322 (100,0%) | 2,919 (100,0%) | 2,856 (100,0%) | 2,514 (100,0%) | |||
| Serbs | 2,695 (92,33%) | 2,606 (91,25%) | 2,333 (92,80%) | ||||
| Others | 82 (2,809%) | 28 (0,980%) | 12 (0,477%) | ||||
| Yugoslavs | 70 (2,398%) | 138 (4,832%) | 27 (1,074%) | ||||
| Bosniaks | 54 (1,850%) | 59 (2,066%) | 91 (3,620%) | ||||
| Croats | 18 (0,617%) | 12 (0,420%) | 33 (1,313%) | ||||
| Montenegrins | 6 (0,210%) | 7 (0,278%) | |||||
| Macedonians | 4 (0,140%) | 1 (0,040%) | |||||
| Slovenes | 1 (0,035%) | 4 (0,159%) | |||||
| Albanians | 1 (0,035%) | 1 (0,040%) | |||||
| Hungarians | 1 (0,035%) | 5 (0,199%) | |||||
| Ethnic composition – Petrovo municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013. | 1991. | |||||||
| Total | 6,474 (100,0%) | 9,150 (100,0%) | ||||||
| Serbs | 6,371 (98,41%) | |||||||
| Others | 60 (0,927%) | |||||||
| Croats | 36 (0,556%) | |||||||
| Bosniaks | 7 (0,108%) | |||||||
The following villages are constituents of Petrovo municipality:
The "Saint Nikola Monastery" of the Serbian Orthodox Church is located in the Petrovo municipality.
