Šargovac
Šargovac is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka. During World War II, on 7 February 1942, Ustaše paramilitaries, led by a Franciscan friar, Miroslav Filipović, killed more than 2,300 Serbs in Drakulić, Motike, and Šargovac.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,080 residents
- Description: village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Also known as: “Srpski Milanovac”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banja Luka and Gornji Šeher.
Banja Luka
Gornji Šeher
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Photo: David Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Srpske Toplice, Gornji Šeher before the 1990s, is a local community and a spa town in the area of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the banks of the Vrbas River in the southern part of the city's territory. Gornji Šeher is situated 9 km south of Šargovac.
Šargovac
- Category: locality
- Location: Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.82649° or 44° 49′ 35″ northLongitude
17.181° or 17° 10′ 52″ eastPopulation
3,080Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)Open location code
8FPVR5GJ+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1431452788OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3191270Wikidata ID
Q3115977
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Turkish—“Šargovac” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Šargovac”
- Cebuano: “Sargovac”
- Croatian: “Šargovac”
- Dutch: “Sargovac”
- Dutch: “Šargovac”
- French: “Sargovac”
- French: “Šargovac”
- Hungarian: “Šargovac”
- Polish: “Šargovac”
- Russian: “Шарговац”
- Serbian: “Šargovac”
- Serbian: “Шарговац”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šargovac”
- Slovenian: “Šargovac”
- Swedish: “Sargovac”
- Turkish: “Şarkova”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Šargovac”. Photo: Tonka, CC BY-SA 3.0.