Brčko (town)
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Brčko Брчко |
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Brčko
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 Brčko
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| Coordinates: 44°52′N 18°49′E / 44.87°N 18.81°E | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| District | Brčko District |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Siniša Milić (SNSD) |
| • President of the District Assembly | Esed Kadrić (SDA) |
| • International Supervisor (Suspended) |
Bruce G. Berton |
| Area | |
| • City | 402 km2 (155 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 92 m (302 ft) |
| Population (2013 census) | |
| • City | 43,007 |
| • Density | 231,4/km2 (5,990/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 93,028 |
| Postcode | 76100 |
| Area code(s) | +387 049 |
| Website | Official website |
Brčko (pronounced [ˈbr̩t͡ʃkoː]) is a town in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative seat of the Brčko District. It lies on the Sava river across from Croatia.
Its name is very likely linked to the Breuci, an Illyrian tribe inhabiting the area in antiquity.
The city is located on the country's northern border, across the Sava River from Gunja in Croatia.
Brčko is the seat of the Brčko District, an independent unit of local self-government created on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina following an arbitration process. The local administration was formerly supervised by an international supervisory regime headed by Principal Deputy High Representative who is also ex officio the Brčko International Supervisor. This international supervision was frozen since 23 May 2012.
Brčko was a geographic point of contention in 1996 when the U.S.-led Implementation Forces (IFOR) built Camp McGovern on the outskirts of the city. Camp McGovern under the overwatch of 3-5 CAV 1/BDE/1AR Division (US) commanded by LTC Anthony Cucculo was constructed from a war torn farming cooperative structure in the Zone of Separation (ZOS) for the purpose of establishing peacekeeping operations. The mission was to separate the forming warring factions. The ZOS was one (1) kilometer wide of "no man's land", where special permission was required for Serbian or Bosnian forces to enter. Various checkpoints and observation points (OP's) were established to control the separation.
Although Brčko was a focal point for tension in the late 1990s, considerable progress in multi-ethnic integration in Brčko has since occurred including integration of secondary schooling. Reconstruction efforts and the Property Law Implementation Plan have improved the situation regarding property and return. Today, Brcko has returned to a strategic transshipment point along the Sava River. The population of Brcko has not returned to it pre-war ethnic mix of Bosniacs, Serb's or Croat's. It should be noted, Brcko sits at the apex (movement east to west/west to east) of the Serb Republic, the ethnic Serb portion of Bosnia & Herzegovina and as such is critical to the RS for its economic future.
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