Lazarevo, Banja Luka

Lazarevo (Serbian Cyrillic: 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
Church of Lazarevo
ZOO Lazarevo

These names are often disregarded in casual speech and are often replaced by the term "Budžak" (Serbian Cyrillic: Буђак).

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.[1]

Population

Before the Yugoslav civil wars, Lazarevo was divided into four local communities. According to the census in 1991, this town had 15,786 inhabitants. [2]

Population Structure in 1991
Ethnicity Amount Percentage of total
Serbs 8642 54.7%
Croats 2913 18.4%
Muslims 1068 6.7%
Yugoslavs 2309 14.62%
Others 854 5.4%

Religious buildings

There are two religious buildings: The monastery of Trappist monks, the only Trappist monastery[3] 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".

  • Post in the populated place Lazarevo
    Post in the populated place Lazarevo
  • A zoo in Lazarevo
    A zoo in Lazarevo
  • The Mariastern Trappist monastery
    The Mariastern Trappist monastery

References
  1. "History of Lazarevo". Cyberbulevar.com. 2005-01-18. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  2. Census in 1991. Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Mariastern Abbey". Trapisti-banjaluka.org. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
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