The Čudnić ( sr-cyrl, Чуднић) is a left, western tributary of the Vrbanja in

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. It flows to Panići village and empties into the village of Čudić in the village of

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, below Arapov Brijeg (Arab's hill). It springs on the southeastern slopes of the lower Vlašić's plateau, below the Ilomska and its tributaries. The spring is on a riverhead with the Kovačevića creek and the Ćorkovac creek. The tributary flows deep and fast; it is the local population's belief that the Čudnić is flowing over a part of the water of the Ilomska confluence. In

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, during

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, or the '6th Enemy Offensive', of 1943 to 1944, partisans established the 12th Division's hospital near

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. After consistent bombings of neighboring Šiprage, about 600 injured and sick partisans were temporarily displaced to Čudnić village and other surrounding settlements on January 4, 1944. After the departure of

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and Chetnik units, this "mobile hospital" quickly returned to Šiprage (January 15, 1944). After the war, the remains of dead partisans were moved from temporary graves in the forest to a Memorial Partisan Cemetery in Šiprage near Zagradine. During the past

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(1992 – 1995), all the Bosniaks villages around Čudnić were destroyed, and their civilian inhabitants were killed and displaced, as well as those from all the Bosniak and

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villages to the Vrbanja's mouth (in Vrbas).

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See also

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