Kozara ( sr-cyrl, Козара) is a mountain in western

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

, in the town of

Kozarac Kozarac ( sr-cyrl, Козарац, ) is a town in north-western Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located near the city of Prijedor. It is located west of Banja Luka. Kozarac is also famous because of the Kozara National Park. Kozarac h ...

and 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 several rivers, namely the Sava (north), Glina (northwest), Vrbanja and Vrba ...

region, bounded by the

Sava River The Sava, is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. From its source in Slovenia it flows through Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally reaches Serbia, fee ...

to the north, the Vrbas to the east, the

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to the south, and the Una to the west. Its tallest peak is Lisina (978 m). In 1942 Kozara was the site of the

Kozara Offensive The Kozara Offensive (), also known as Operation West Bosnia () was a large-scale German-led counter-insurgency operation against the Yugoslav Partisans in the Bosnian mountain region of Kozara in the Independent State of Croatia during World Wa ...

, part of the

Yugoslav National Liberation War World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned among Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attack ...

and

Partisan Partisan(s) or The Partisan(s) may refer to: Military * Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line ** Francs-tireurs et partisans, communist-led French anti-fascist resistance against Nazi Germany during WWII ** Ital ...

resistance during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

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File:KozarackiKamen.jpg, Side of the mountain called 'Kozarački kamen' - overlooking hamlet of Kozarac File:Козарачки камен NP002.jpg, Kozarački kamen File:Игра, Национални парк Козара.jpg,

Monument to the Revolution Monument to the Revolution may refer to: * ''Monument to the Revolution'' (Kozara), a 1972 World War II memorial sculpture by Dušan Džamonja * '' Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina'', a 1967 World War II memorial sculpture by ...

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Mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mountains of Republika Srpska {{BosniaHerzegovina-geo-stub

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