Obljaj

Obljaj
Village
A Catholic church in Obljaj
Obljaj
Coordinates: 44°10′42″N16°23′19″E / 44.17833°N 16.38861°E / 44.17833; 16.38861
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton	Canton 10
Municipality	Bosansko Grahovo
Area
• Total	8.59 km2 (3.32 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	108
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Obljaj is a village in the Municipality of Bosansko Grahovo in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gavrilo Princip (who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria), was born here in 1894 and lived here when he was young. ^[1] During the Operation Summer '95, the house in which Princip was born was burned down by Croatian forces. ^[2]

Demographics

According to the 2013 census, its population was 108. ^[3]

Ethnicity in 2013

Ethnicity	Number	Percentage
Serbs	55	50.9%
Croats	52	48.1%
other/undeclared	1	0.9%
Total	108	100%

Footnotes

1. Doak 2008, p. 39.
2. Nikolić, Kosta (2023). Krajina: 1991.–1995 (in Serbo-Croatian). Zaprešić & Zagreb: Fraktura & Serb National Council. p. 399. ISBN   978-953-358-654-0.
3. Ethnicity/National Affiliation, Religion and Mother Tongue 2019, pp. 500–501.

Bibliography

• Ethnicity/National Affiliation, Religion and Mother Tongue (PDF). Sarajevo: Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2019.
• Doak, Robin S. (2008). Assassination at Sarajevo: The Spark That Started World War I. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Compass Point Books. ISBN   9780756538576.

44°10′42″N16°23′19″E / 44.17833°N 16.38861°E / 44.17833; 16.38861