Srebrenica is a town and municipality located in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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11 Facts About Srebrenica
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The earliest reference to the name Srebrenica was in 1376, by which time it was already an important centre for trade in the western Balkans, based especially on the silver mines of the region.
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In late summer 1914 Srebrenica was taken over by Serbian volunteers under Kosta Todorovic but later retaken by Austro-Hungarian units.
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Partisans fought Chetniks and Ustashe during the war and the people of Srebrenica built a partisan memorial cemetery monument for the fallen victims.
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Town of Srebrenica came to international prominence as a result of events during the Bosnian War.
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The Srebrenica massacre was the deadliest massacre in Europe since World War II, being the only incident in Europe to have been recognized as a genocide since the Holocaust.
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In 2001, the Srebrenica massacre was determined by judgement of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to have been a crime of genocide.
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Under the 1995 Dayton Agreement which ended the Bosnian War, Srebrenica was included in the territory assigned to Bosnian Serb control as the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Recent BSA attack on Srebrenica enclave was prompted by constant BiH attacks over the previous 3 months on BSA supply route to the south of the enclave.
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Until 1961 census, the municipality of Srebrenica included today's territory of Bratunac municipality.
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Nowadays, Srebrenica has some tourism but a lot less developed than before the war.
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