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Jablanica is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town is situated on the Neretva river in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.
Jablanica on map BiH Population 13,030
In the 1991 census, there were 12,664 inhabitants of the Jablanica municipality: 9,136 were Bosniaks (72.14%), 2,253 Croats (17.79%), 573 Yugoslavs (4.52%), 504 Serbs (3.98%), 198 others (1.56%). As of April 2005, there are 13,030 inhabitants in the municipality of Jablanica.
Neretva Bridge, destroyed during the Fourth enemy offensive and recreated for the 1969 film, "The Battle of Neretva."
During World War II, Jablanica was the site of a successful raid by a group of Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. A rail bridge was blown over the river while a train was in the middle of crossing. There is a park and monument commemorating this action at the site. The bridge section and the locomotive can still be seen in the river gorge.
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