Ljubija ( sr-cyr, Љубија) is a small town in

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. It is located in the

Bosanska Krajina Bosanska Krajina ( sr-cyrl, Босанска Крајина, ) is a geographical region, a subregion of Bosnia, in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is enclosed by a number of rivers, namely the Sava (north), Glina (northwest), Vrbanja and Vrba ...

region in the northwestern part of the country. Administratively, it belongs to the

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 89,397 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in ...

municipality.

History

In the 19th century, Ljubija developed into one of the most important locations for the area's economy due to its iron ore deposits. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Ljubija became one of the largest iron mines in the world which employed more than 5,000 people at any one time. Until 1963 it was governed as a separate municipality, before it was merged with

Bosnian War

On 24–25 July 1992, the Fifth Kozara Brigade and Sixth Krajina Brigade of the

Army of Republika Srpska The Army of Republika Srpska ( sr, Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske; ВРС/VRS), commonly referred to in English as the Bosnian Serb Army, was the military of Republika Srpska (RS), the self-proclaimed Serb ...

and local Serb paramilitaries, totaling at 3,000, attacked Ljubija and killed 73 Bosnian Croat civilians. Non-Serb workers at the

Ljubija mine The Ljubija mine is a large open pit mine Ljubija ore f ...

were dismissed explicitly because of their ethnicity.

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* * * * {{coord, 44, 55, N, 16, 37, E, region:BA_type:city, display=title Populated places in Prijedor