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To: Sarajevo
Have you looked at the CURRENT population makeup of Sarajevo? Serbs are only 5% of the inhabitants today. Before they war they were about 30%.

http://www.crucibleofwar.com/sarajevo.htm

The Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population -- which had been about 50% of Sarajevo's population before the war -- was now 87%. The Bosnian Serb population had been reduced from 28% to 5%.

1991:

Bosniacs: 252,000
Serbs: 139,000
Croats: 35,000
Others: 75,000 [many of these were Serbs who considered themselves Yugoslavs]

1997:

Bosniacs:303,000
Serbs: 18,000
Croats: 21,000
Others: 7,000

32 posted on 10/04/2004 1:56:25 PM PDT by joan
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To: joan
Historical Population The following are some recorded populations of Sarajevo throughout it's history (See also: Historical Population of Sarajevo). The figures from 1626 and 1660 are based on the accounts of traveling writers who estimated that Sarajevo at the time had 20,000 houses, and figures an average of 5 people per house. All latter figures are based on official censuses by Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Socialist Yugoslavia, except for 2002 which is an estimate by the Sarajevo Canton government. All figures after 1945 represent the greater Sarajevo area,

1626: 60,000+ inhabitants

1660: 100,000+ inhabitants

1910: 51,919

1921: 66,317

1931: 78,173

1945: 115,000

1971: 359,448

1991: 527.049

2002: 401,118 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo

Hmmm. It seems that some of your information is out of date by a couple of years. Let us not forget that approxiamtely 25% of Sarajevo is located in the Republika Srpska (Serbian Republic)

36 posted on 10/04/2004 5:26:51 PM PDT by Sarajevo (The history of the preceding century began in Sarajevo)
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