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    Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 14:16
ORASJE never forget
Orasje is a predominantly Roman Catholic town located right on the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. During the war it was sandwiched between the Republic of Serb Krajina, established in Croatia, and the Serb Republic, established in Bosnia.


Here is photo of a Roman Catholic chapel on the outskirts of the town, taken sometime before the 1992-1995 war. The chapel was built in 1987 as a memorial to the son of a wealthy family who was killed in a car accident at the location.


Here is photo of the same Roman Catholic chapel, rebuilt after the war. The scariest part is that Roman Catholics in the area made up the smallest percentage of Orasje's death toll, surpassed by both Serbs and Bosniaks.



It's a nice, photographic way to make the point - and Roman Catholics, at an estimated 5 per cent of the death toll in the overall war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, are not often remembered properly.

So, voila, this thread.
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Orasje town was Bosniak setlled by Muslims from Serbia 1830-1867 period

Orasje county is Croat
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Orasje municipality is predominantly Croat, overwhelming today. Odzak and Orasje have always been mainly Croat towns, at least since I was born.
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Posts: 269 		  Quote violentjack Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-May-2006 at 00:32
Never Odzak and Orasje were always Bosniak towns, in Odzak town before war some 70% of town population was Bosniak.County Odzak and Orasje with villages was predominantly Croat.But if you want just information about Odzak town and Orasje,their population and number of Bosniaks as per 1991 census, i dont mind giving that info.
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I checked, you're right about Orasje:

In the 1991 census the municipality of Oraje had 28,211 residents, of which 75.27% Croats, 14.96% Serbs, 6.77% Bosniaks, 2.15% Yugoslavs and 0.86% others.

The town of Oraje itself had 3,901 inhabitants: 47% Bosniaks, 23% Serbs, 15% Croats, 12% Yugoslavs and 3% others.

Still strange to me, I've only ever seen one mosque there.
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mila, how many mosques have you expected to see??


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2 or 3

There are two mosques in Orasje and town has some 4000 people
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