Omarska
Sign in to saveOmarska (Serbian Cyrillic: Омарска) is a small town near Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town includes an old iron mine and ore processing plant. During the Bosnian War it was the site of the Omarska concentration camp.
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Place details
- Locality
- MZ Omarska
- Region
- Република Српска / Republika Srpska
- Country
- Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина
- Population
- 6,466
- Timezone
- Europe/Sarajevo
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Omarska
- Settlement.native_name
- Омарска
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Omarskawiki.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main street
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Bosnia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Republika Srpska
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Prijedor
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2002
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Located in
- Prijedor
- Population
- 3081
- Elevation
- 252
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Omarskawiki.jpg
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- Omarska
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- Bosnian War
- Geography
- Main Features
- Hydrography
- Demographic Features
- Population
- Education
- Sports
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Omarska (Serbian Cyrillic: Омарска) is a small town near Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town includes an old iron mine and ore processing plant. During the Bosnian War it was the site of the Omarska concentration camp.
==History== ===World War II=== During World War II, a massacre of Bosnian Serb civilians occurred in Omarska by the Ustaše.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Omarska” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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