Rudo Рудо
Location of Rudo within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
- Mayor	Milko Čolaković (SNSD) [1]
Area
- Total	344 km2 (132.8 sq mi)
Population (1991)
- Total	11,572
- Municipality	?
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	58

Rudo (Serbian Cyrillic: Рудо , Ottoman Turkish Sokul or Sokullu) is a town and municipality in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina near the border with Serbia. It appears in Ivo Andrić's story "The Beys of Rudo."

[edit] Demographics

[edit] 1971

15.982 total

• Serbs - 10.155 (63,54%)
• Muslims - 5.532 (34,61%)
• Croats - 18 (0,11%)
• Yugoslavs - 80 (0,50%)
• others - 197 (1,24%)

In 1991, the population of the Rudo municipality numbered 11,572 people, including:

• 8,191 Serbs (70.78%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 3,142 Bosniaks (27.15%)
• 93 Yugoslavs
• 5 Croats (See: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 141 others

The town of Rudo itself in 1991 had a population of 3,109, including:

• 2,103 Serbs (68%)
• 869 Bosniaks (28%)
• 66 Yugoslavs
• 3 Croats
• 68 others

Sokollu Mehmet Paşa was also born in this town.

[edit] See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska

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Coordinates: 43°37′N 19°22′E / 43.617°N 19.367°E / 43.617; 19.367