Zvornik (Cyrillic: Зворник) is a city on the Drina river in northeastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located south of Bijeljina. The town Mali Zvornik ("little Zvornik") lies directly across the river in Serbia, and not far north is Loznica.
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Zvornik Today
The Municipality of Zvornik is one of the 9 most developed municipalities in the Republika Srpska. Zvornik has a square named after King Petar I of Serbia. A town in the Republika Srpska is also named after him, using his nom de guerre - Mrkonjić Grad.
Zvornik on map BiH Population 81,111
Climate
Just like most of Bosnia, Zvornik has very hot summers and cold winters. Except for the area near the river Drina, the city is surrounded by mountains with preserved forests, which creates a beautiful scenery with the town's location at the bottom of a valley.
Education
It is presumed that the Orthodox primary school was established in Zvornik before the 18th century. In 1880, this school was transferred to a new building (present-day’s printing – house). The school was built by the Serbs for education of their children. The state primary school became operational in 1866/67. In 1920, a Secondary School for construction with commercial department was built. It was the only secondary school until the Second World War.
There are five elementary schools on the territory of the Municipality Zvornik: “Sveti Sava” in Zvornik, which was one of the biggest schools by number of pupils in the former SFRJ, “Petar Kočić” in Kozluk, “Vuk Karadžić” in Roćević, “Desanka Maksimović” in Čelopek and “Nikola Tesla” in Pilica.
Population
Before the war in Bosnia, the Zvornik municipality was one of the largest in the country with a population of 81,111. The city of Zvornik itself had 14,852 inhabitants.
The city's demographic situation has changed drastically in the last 15 years. Up until 1992, the municipality had a population of 81,111 residents with a Muslim by nationality majority and a large Serb minority.
Ethnic groups included:
- 48,205 Muslims by nationality (59.43%)
- 30,838 Serbs (38.02%)
- 1,224 Yugoslavs (1.51%)
- 122 Croats (0.15%)
- 722 others (0.89%) (See: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Saint’s Day
Zvornik Municipality has its Saint – St. Petka Trnova whose day is celebrated on August 8th. Saint martyr Paraskeva lived in 2nd century AD.
Originally, she had Roman roots coming from a Christian family. After her parents had died, she gave away all her property to the poor and became a nun.
Due to her preaching of Christian religion and many miracles that she had done, she was imprisoned, tortured, and in the end killed with the sward, as ordered by prince Tarasije.
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