Lazarevo ( sr-cyrl, Лазарево) is an urban neighborhood in the city of
Banjaluka,
Bosnia and Herzegovina (
Republika Srpska entity). Lazarevo is located in the northern part of the city, and is one of the largest and most organized neighborhoods, made up of two local communities:
* Lazarevo 1
* Lazarevo 2
These names are often disregarded in casual speech and are often replaced by the term "Budžak" (Serbian Cyrillic: Буџак).
History
In the first half of the 19th century, then Budžak (now Lazarеvo) was a village near Banja Luka, which was sparsely populated. The inhabitants built houses away from the main road
Gradiška, since it was safer to live in during the
Ottoman rule. The village expanded during the Austro-Hungarian rule, and it was under Austro-Hungarian rule that a
train station was built in Lazarevo, giving it importance in the transport of goods and people. However, this train station has seen a decline in amount of trains and traffic in recent years. A
hydroelectric power plant was built in
Trappist, which now lays abandoned.
Population
Before the
Yugoslav civil wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from t ...
, Lazarevo was divided into four local communities. According to the
census in 1991, this town had 15,786 inhabitants.
[Census in 1991.](_blank)
Religious buildings
There are two religious buildings:
The monastery of Trappist monks, the only Trappist monastery
in
Southeastern Europe, which was the largest Trappist abbey in the world at the start of the 20th century with 219 monks, and an
Eastern Orthodox church named "Lazarica".
Gallery
File:Pošta (Lazarevo).jpg, Post in the populated place Lazarevo
File:2011--05-27 BL zoo 18.JPG, A zoo in Lazarevo
File:Mariastern monastery.jpg, The Mariastern Trappist monastery
References
External links
Banja Luka City homepage
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Banja Luka
Populated places in Banja Luka
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Geography of Banja Luka