Bosansko Grahovo
Bosansko Grahovo (
Serbian Cyrillic:
Босанско "рахово) is a town and municipality in western
Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located near the border with
Croatia, near the towns of
Drvar,
Livno and
Glamoč. Administratively it is part of the
West Bosnia Canton of the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1991, the municipality of Bosansko Grahovo had 8,303 residents, of which 7,929
Serbs (95.5%), 12
Bosniaks (0.1%), 128
Yugoslavs (1.6%), 219
Croats (2.6%), and 15 others (0.2%). The town of Grahovo itself had 3469 residents (94% Serbs, 3% Croats, 2% Yugoslavs).
Gavrilo Princip, the main perpetrator of the
assassination in Sarajevo of
1914, was born in the village of Obljaj located just east of Bosansko Grahovo.
In the prelude to the
Operation Storm, the
Croatian military operation in
1995, the armed forces of the Bosnian Croats first captured the area around Bosansko Grahovo in order to be able to encroach on
Knin and other areas of the former
Republic of Serbian Krajina. As a result 8,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed. Their homes and chuches were looted and destroyed.
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