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Map of the Sava river basin; Posavina constitutes the inner regions near Sava itself

Posavina (Bosnian, Serbian,Croatian and Slovenian Posavina, Serbian Cyrillic Посавина) is a Slavic name for the region of the Sava river basin in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia that is adjacent or near the Sava river itself.

Bosanska Posavina is the Bosnian part of the region, with the area of approx. 2650 km². The Bosnian region is bound by Sava river to the north, Motajica mountain to the west, mountains Ozren and Trebava to the south and Majevica to the east.

[edit] History

In the first half of the 18th century, Sava-Danube (Posavina-Podunavlje) section of the Habsburg Military Frontier existed in the area. Posavina segment of the Frontier comprised parts of Slavonia and Syrmia regions. It stretched between Nova Gradiška and estuary of the Drina river into Sava.

Between 1929 and 1939, one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was known as the Sava Banovina. The capital city of the province was Zagreb. In 1939, Sava Banovina was merged with Littoral Banovina to form new Banovina of Croatia.

Today, one of the counties in Croatia is named Brod-Posavina county and one of the cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina is named Posavina Canton.

[edit] Yugoslav breakup and wars

Before the Yugoslav wars, Croats made the majority of the population in Bosnian Posavina. According to the pre-war 1991 census was inhabited by 260,793 people:

Croats : 131,542 or 51%
Serbs : 77,723 or 29%
Bosniaks: 18,726 or 12%

The Bosnian Posavina region was gravely hit by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) to the point that parts of it had become uninhabited^{[citation needed]}, as almost all the houses were plundered, burnt or destroyed. Only a few percent of people have returned to their homes. The majority of refugees live in and around the city of Slavonski Brod, Croatia right across the Sava River, while a minority emigrated to the European Union countries, the United States, and Australia.

Today the region is predominantly inhabited by Serbs.

[edit] Cities and towns in Posavina

Cities and towns in Croatia:

Cities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Cities and towns in Serbia:

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Gradiška

New Belgrade

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