Blade (Bosnia-Herzégovine)

Pale ( Cyrillic Пaле in ) is a city and a municipality of Bosnia-Herzégovine which is located at fourteen kilometers in South-east of the capital Sarajevo but in Serb République of Bosnia, one of the two entities with the Fédération of Bosnia and Herzégovine composing Bosnia-Herzégovine.

Blade is a municipality of the town of Istočno Sarajevo adjacent in Sarajevo and sometimes called Srpsko Sarajevo by the Serbe population.

History

In the beginning simple locality in suburbs of Sarajevo, the city acquires its notoriety while becoming on January 9th 1992 the capital de facto of the Serb République of Bosnia during the war of independence of Bosnia-Herzégovine. The government of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and the Serb Parliament of Bosnia will sit during the war with Pale and will assert Sarajevo like official capital.

With the Agreements of Dayton come into effect the December 14th 1995, the government of the Serb Republic of Bosnia decides to move and Blade loses its statute of capital de facto to the profit of Banja Luka, Sarajevo remaining the official capital.

Before 1992, Pale was regarded as a locality of the outer suburbs of Sarajevo. With the agreements of Dayton, the locality of Blade-Prača (today Podrinje) returned to the Fédération of Bosnia and Herzégovine and the remainder of the municipality returned to the Serb Republic of Bosnia under the name of Pale (or Srpsko Sarajevo for the Serb ones) Since the territorial partition and the changes in the ethnic composition of the population, Pale resembles more and more a city with whole share.

Geography

Blade is located at fourteen kilometers with the East-south-east of Sarajevo, not far from the river Miljacka which crosses the capital. It is located on the road connecting Sarajevo to Goražde.

The city is in the East of Bosnia-Herzégovine, in the middle of the the dinaric Alps, against the solid mass of Jahorina. The city, surrounded by forests (66% of the surface of the municipality), constitutes a vacation resort (sanatoria, etc). The ski station of Jahorina (twenty kilometers in the South of Blade) has acueilli tests of ski at the time of the Olympic Games of Sarajevo in 1984.

Population

According to the census of 1991, the municipality of Blade counts 16 310 inhabitants of which 11 269 Serb , 4 356 Bosnian , 384 Yugoslav , 126 Croatian and 165 inhabitants declaring itself of another nationality.

Today, the municipality counts approximately 30 000 inhabitants, majority being Serb refugees coming from Sarajevo.

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