Prijedor (Cyrillic: Приједор) is a town and municipality in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the Republika Srpska entity. Prijedor is second largest town in Republika Srpska after Banja Luka.

Grb Prijedor

Geography

Prijedor municipality sits in north-western part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the banks of the Sana river and Gomjenica and on hills of Kozara mountain. The area of the municipality is 833 km². The town lies on 44°N and 16°W from Greenwhich, at altitude of 135 m. 2 km outside the town, to the northeast, the terrain ascends in waves and by degrees becomes a mountain range of Kozara, famous from the peoples' mutinies in the previous centuries and battle against fascism in the World War II. The level country in Prijedor lays is alluvial terrain created by the Sana river and its tributaries on the south western hillsides of the Kozara mountain. The structure of this level country depends upon the geologic composition of the ground through which run brooks and tributaries of the Sana river.

Prijedor on map BiH Population 112,470

The town was developed on Svinjarica island separated from the Sana river and Berek. There are remains of the Roman and Illyrian civilizations in these regions.

The first forms of organized education can be tracked back in the first half of the 19th century. In 1834 Prijedor had the "Serbian elementary school" that later with so-called "Communal school" was transformed into "State school" in 1919.

Nowadays, there are 11 elementary schools with circa 8.000 students and 6 high schools attended by 4.000 schools. Basic and high school music school , special school for mentally retarded persons are also part of the municipal educational system. Over the last several years, important steps were taken aimed at establishing colleges so accordingly there are medical college and business college, Mining Geology branch department of Faculty of technology from Banja Luka.