Kotor-Varoš was a ''

srez The ''srez'' ( sr-cyr, срез; / срезови) was a second-level administrative unit in the Principality of Serbia, Kingdom of Serbia and Yugoslavia. It was a district that included several town- or village municipalities. It was introduce ...

'' (a second-level administrative unit) centered at

Kotor Varoš Kotor Varoš ( sr-cyrl, Котор Варош) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, the municipality has a population of 19,710 inhabitants, while the town of Kotor Varoš has a population o ...

, that existed during the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () h ...

and

Socialist Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

. It had earlier been a ''kreis'' of Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was a subdivision of the Vrbas Oblast in 1922–29,

Vrbas Banovina The Vrbas Banovina or Vrbas Banate ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Vrbaska banovina, Врбаска бановина), was a province (Banovinas of Yugoslavia, banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. It was named after the ...

in 1929–41, and thereafter the

Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

. It was abolished in 1955. In 1948 and 1953, it included the six municipalities of Kotor Varoš, Previle,

Skender Vakuf Skender () ({{langx, bs, Skender) is a masculine first name, commonly found in Albania and Kosovo and among people of Bosniak ethnicity in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Skender is also used as a surname and there are ...

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 ...

Vrbanjci Vrbànjci ( sr-cyrl, Врбањци) is a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, , in the Municipality of Kotor Varoš. Geography Vrbanjci lies along the Vrbanja river (after which it is named), between its tributaries Jezerka, Bosanka, and Cv ...

and Zabrđe.

Demographics

;1953

References

{{reflist Districts of Yugoslavia Kotor Varoš