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ZENICA | Зеница - Development News 2006-2015

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ZENICA,
Bosnia-Herzegovina



History:

It is said that people have lived in Zenica for much of recorded history. Ruins of an old Roman town can still be seen in city Bistum Novum, and during the Middle Ages, one part of the city, called Bilino Polje, was very important. Here, the famous sabor of 1203 occurred, where Bosnian Ban Kulin (1163-1204), widely regarded as one of the most prominent Bosnian rulers of the Middle Ages, pressed by the Vatican, supposedly abandoned the traditional Church of Bosnia (a dualist variation of Christianity) and converted to Catholicism. Bilino Polje was still important until the Ottoman invasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The home football stadium of NK Čelik is onamed Bilino Plje after the part of the city where it is situated.

Zenica is the place of origin of the Serbian House of Petrovic dynasty that migrated in the 14th century to Herzegovina and would rule Montenegro for over two centuries.

During the Ottoman period Zenica was merely a small kasaba (town). In the nineteenth century, it was the center of a district (kaza), which was part of the sub-province (sancak) of Travnik. There was never an important mosque in Zenica, unlike the neighboring town Travnik, which was once a centre of Bosnian viziers. Zenica continued in this way for over 400 years until Austria-Hungary conquered it in 1878.

A few years after the conquest, the Austrians started to build a steel factory in town. The town grew rapidly with the new steel factory and booming economy. By the end of Austrian rule it was still a small town still with just over 10,000 inhabitants, but nevertheless it began to develop into a major town.

The most prominent growth of Zenica started after the partisans liberated the small town in 1945 and began to develop the steel industry. During those years new buildings were constructed there and the town grew rapdily, spreading to encompass Bilino Polje, Klopce, and Radakovo, all villages during the Ottoman period. Many apartment blocks were built to house the new miners.

In 1948 the population was only 12,000 people, but by 1961 it had grown to over 30,000. In 1981 the town had over 63,000 people, and in the last census taken 1991 Zenica was a city of some 96,027 people. Zenica has seen a six-fold increase in its population in the past 50 years.

In 1991, just one year before the Bosnian War, Zenica was the headquarters of one of the first private and independent radio stations in all of Eastern Europe, Radio CD-CEMP. In the spring of 1993, Zoran Misetic, a journalist and the owner of the Radio CD-CEMP, was awarded with the Belgian Award for Independet Journalism; “Pen Of Peace”.

During the Bosnian War, the demographics of the city were altered to a certain extent, whereby the city received a large number of ethnic Bosniak refugees from other parts of the country. Today, Zenica is trying to regain the economic influence it used to be famous for before the war.
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PSC Kamberovic Polje
Reconstruction of Safvet beg Bašagića Street
 
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