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The Ćorkovac ( sr-cyrl, Ћорковац) is an eastern confluent of the
Vrbanja river The Vrbanja ( sr-Cyrl, Врбања) is a river in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; with Ugar (river), Ugar, the largest right tributary of the Vrbas (river), Vrbas. Its basin covers an area of approximately 703.5 km2. The Vrbanja has ...
in
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. It begins on the north-eastern slopes of the Vlašić mountain's plateau, and the mouth opens at
Šiprage Šiprage ( sr-Cyrl, Шипраге) is a settlement municipality in Kotor Varoš Municipality, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The administrative status of this populated place was changed – from the local community has grown a munici ...
, where the town's sawmill was. The spring of Ćorkovac is 1,150 metres above sea level, and is around 6 kilometres long. It flows between the Jasen and Stražbenica mountains to its estuary. The watermills were in operation until the 1960s. In the relatively narrow area there is a fertile and wide riverhead between Ćorkovac, Ilomska,
Čudnić The Čudnić ( sr-cyrl, Чуднић) is a left, western tributary of the Vrbanja in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It flows to Panići village and empties into the village of Čudić in the village of Kruševo Brdo, below Arapov Brijeg (Arab's hill). ...
, Kovačevići's stream, Grabovička rijeka, Kobilja, Ugrić and other confluents of Vrbanja and the
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river. The crest of the riverhead directs towards the villages of Petrovo Polje, Imljani, Vlatkovići, and the
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Municipality. Nearby, below the ridge there are springs from an unnamed eastern confluent of Ćorkovac and (on right) Zuhrići's stream (Slatki potok = Sweet stream). Across the stream there were Zuhrići and Vrbovo villages, which were destroyed during the spring of 1992. Local inhabitants were killed and displaced, as well as all
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and
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settlements at the mouth of Vrbanja river ( Vrbas). After the 1996, the destroyed villages in Šiprage's region are reconstructed by Battalion BELUGA (Belgium – Luxembourg – Greece – Austria), from IFOR/SFOR Mission.


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