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Pre-war cencus data that covers the area of today`s municipalities of Ključ (FBIH) and Srpski Ključ/Ribnik (Republika Srpska) According to the 1991 census the municipality had 37,233 inhabitants.
The town of Ključ had 10,547 inhabitants
In 2003 Ključ (FBIH) municipality had 16,020 inhabitants
Human settlements have existed in the area before the Roman time. The town itself is first mentioned in 1322 in the documents of ban Stjepan II Kotromanić. It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1463 as the last Royal Bosnian forteress. During the Bosnian war (1992-1995), the entire pre-war municipality of Ključ (Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina) was ethnically cleansed for non-Serbs by the Serb nationalists. The Serb nationalists killed several hundreds of persons at the area of the the entire pre-war municipality of Ključ. Today this killings/the ethnic cleansing are cases in International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1995, the Serbs were ethnically cleansed from entire pre-war municipality by Bosniak and Croat military. After Dayton agreement, the pre-war municipality was divided between Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. |
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